Guess what race they all are?
Yup, you got it.
Posted on 10/15/2014 10:26:38 AM PDT by jazusamo
Three House Democrats are calling on President Obama to allow U.S. troops in West Africa to provide direct care to Ebola patients.
The Obama administration has already committed around 4,000 U.S. troops to help fight Ebola in the affected West African countries, but they are performing tasks such as building treatment centers and training local providers, not directly providing care.
Reps. Keith Ellison (Minn.), Karen Bass (Calif.), and Barbara Lee (Calif.) want to change that.
"We write to urge you to consider building on the current response to the Ebola epidemic by allowing military medical and technical personnel to provide direct care to and to come into contact with patients in West Africa," the representatives wrote in a letter to Obama. "We further urge that Americans assisting in the effort be provided with the best protective equipment, training, and processes in the world at their disposal to ensure their safety."
The call comes as the World Health Organization says that there could be as many as 10,000 new Ebola cases every week within two months.
The lawmakers raised concerns that there would not be enough trained staff to care for Ebola patients if the U.S. did not directly step in.
"The commitment of 4,000 military personnel, to assist with standing up Ebola Treatment Units (ETU) and logistical response are essential contributions," they wrote. "However, we have heard from those working in West Africa that there is uncertainty about who will staff the ETUs, who will manage them, and whether their level of experience under these conditions is commensurate with the task."
President Obama canceled campaign trips to New Jersey and Connecticut on Wednesday to meet with cabinet agencies involved in the Ebola response. The step comes as the second healthcare worker in the United States was announced to have Ebola on Wednesday.
Many Republican lawmakers have called for a ban on travel to the U.S. from the affected countries, but the Democrats rejected that option in the letter.
"If the U.S. enacts policies like travel bans, which are not effective and discourage volunteer participation, we increase the chance of worsening the epidemic and the chance that new cases arrive in the U.S," they wrote. "Instead, we should be offering incentives for volunteers and assurances that they will have access to everything they need to be as safe as possible at all times."
One muzzie and two dhimmies.
They may be tracing their ancestry to W. Africa.
this is not what our military is for.
It is to the leftist Marxists.
Where are the Reps calling for our troops to be pulled back, out of Ebola countries?
Where are the Reps calling for the IMMEDIATE stop to ALL flights in/out of W Africa?
Where are the Reps calling for the IMMEDIATE firing of CDC Frieden...who has completely botched the 0bola preparedness for USA?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Are they friggin’ crazy?
Maybe they want desertions. They’d certainly be warranted.
Insane. This is not why we have a military. Democrats are such idiots.
Send the congressional black caucus
Idiots
Bump!
Amen...Insane is precisely the right word.
imagine forcing healthy young people to got to strange countries to clean up infected poop and vomit....
I would personally like to tell these rats...GO CLEAN THEM UP YOURSELF! or other things....
Active Duty ping.
Guess what race they all are?
Yup, you got it.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Look it is time to just over throw these traitors. What is going on is beyond any commonsense and the “orders” are insane.
As a serving senior NCO, my response is “Are you out of your F’ing Mind????”:
Amen to that, Sarge!
Thanks for the ping!
Nonsensical. The military does not have medical training in this high degree of contagion.
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