Posted on 09/16/2014 12:20:42 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota
WASHINGTON — Under pressure to do more to confront the Ebola outbreak sweeping across West Africa, President Obama on Tuesday is to announce an expansion of military and medical resources to combat the spread of the deadly virus, administration officials said.
The president will go beyond the 25-bed portable hospital that Pentagon officials said they would establish in Liberia, one of the three West African countries ravaged by the disease, officials said. Mr. Obama will offer help to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia in the construction of as many as 17 Ebola treatment centers in the region, with about 1,700 treatment beds.
Senior administration officials said Monday night that the Department of Defense would open a joint command operation in Monrovia, Liberia, to coordinate the international effort to combat the disease. The military will also provide engineers to help construct the additional treatment facilities and will send enough people to train up to 500 health care workers a week to deal with the crisis.
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What possible outcomes are there to this?
(1) Global media coverage of white American males shooting sick black Africans to enforce a quarantine, inflaming world opinion and racial tensions.
(2) American soldiers deployed to remote regions that barely have contact with civilization; prmitive peoples may see cause and effect. They just know that when the American soldiers showed up they started getting sick.
(3) American soldiers in close contact with Ebola patients who become infected themselves.
What are they thinking?
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaa!
This is insanity! Is there no way to stop this from happening?
Only an idiot would send soldiers to fight a virus when he should send medical supplies.
I know there is a program in DARPA that can basically put the manufacture of ZMapp and other medicines on steroids. This should be implemented right away.
Under pressure from whom?
Still not clear on what 3,000 US troops are to do there. Provide security while portable hospitals are erected and utilized? The whole thing seems bizarre.
If it become airborne, the guns will just spread it about more efficiently. (All that firing has to move a lot of air around.)
And NO MORE REFUGEES !!!!....from anywhere.
Isn’t that the job of the World Health Organization?
Why don’t put boots on the ground. They already have the equipment and apparel.
“...mission with no chance of accomplishing anything.”
Except perhaps these “accomplishments”:
Further decimate the armed forces
Cripple recruitment efforts
Spread Ebola throughout U.S.
Provide excuse (epidemic) for further government control
and
Eliminate elections “due to medical emergency”?
I agree. Anything to rid our country of these parasitic vermin invaders.
Many actually think the reverse is true, with the flu originating in the US, and troops carrying it to Europe. The first known outbreak was in rural Kansas...followed closely by a large outbreak at Camp Funston (Fort Riley, KS), and from there it went around the world.
Around 10 years ago, I designed a military vehicle parking facility on Funston. I was out there when the contractor first turned over the dirt...and suddenly wondered if the virus may somehow still be alive beneath the surface....apparently not.
Your premise is still correct though - soldiers move around a lot, and live in close quarters with poor hygiene. A perfect breeding ground for spreading disease.
Link to info about origin:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/
Ever consider what would have become of AIDS if we had instituted quarantine in 1982?
Isn't the charter of the NSA and the CIA to act behind the scenes for our national security? What are you folks doing? Studies on security risks from global climate change in 2083? Your agencies spend hundreds of billions a year to be our angels, preventing harm to our country. What is it you are doing?
You know, I think I remember reading about the Kansas connection somewhere. Something about them burning a large number of horse carcasses (weird correlation, but at the time I think the locals though that was the cause)?
You were not far off. Anthrax sleeps in the soil until conditions become just right. The grazing animals drop like an ocean tide.
“Ever consider what would have become of AIDS if we had instituted quarantine in 1982?”
Interesting question. I never thought about that, since I don’t put HIV in the same category as Ebola. You don’t have to tape yourself up in a hazmat suit to be in the same room as an HIV patient...just don’t have gay sex with him. IOW, HIV is fairly preventable....and conceivably could be eradicated if people merely changed their behavior. It is not nearly as mysterious as Ebola.
Disease, starvation, wars, are methods of controlling costs. The right balance is to keep the diseases and violence in check and in targeted areas as to not scare off foreign investment and foreign aide. The problem is the Genie gets out of the bottle.
Now what world leader could be predisposed to such attitudes toward social spending, public policy, and dispatch of those who threaten their hold on power?
So no boots on the ground to fight an actual army that’s cutting people’s heads off.... but 3000 boots on the ground to fight a virus. This guy is an idiot.
“Bet they’re going to be the guinea pigs for ebola vaccines.”
Given under the guise of some other type of vaccination ...malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, etc.
“No, soldier, this has nothing to do with Ebola. This is a malaria vaccination... Next!”
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