Posted on 10/28/2014 12:24:36 PM PDT by justlittleoleme
The Obama administration said Tuesday that a quarantine policy in place for Army troops leaving Ebola-stricken West Africa would not work for the civilian population its latest attempt to explain the dissonance between its military policy and the criticism it doled out to states with strict solution measures in place for returning health workers.
President Obama has committed up to 3,000 troops to the fight against Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Already, at a least a dozen troops have been isolated at a base in Italy, even as administration officials say quarantine rules in states such as New Jersey could dissuade health care workers from joining the fight in West Africa.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said it is more efficient for the military to be ordered into isolation, as thousands of them come and go from the front liens of the fight against Ebola. The military is ordered to do things, while aid workers volunteer.
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Correct. Usually they are looser for the militarily as they know for sure what their health is, how good a shape they are in, that they have been vaccinated and where they have been and what they have been doing.
These are all things that are unknown for civilians.
And of everyone they have the most chance of not being infected, of recognizing when they might have been infected, and of recognizing the signs of infection and of promptly getting treatment.
These are things that a civilian might or might not do.
The rule are therefore backwards.
Well, its no biggie anyway, because we’ll be quarantining those who “don’t treat Ebola patients”, and putting those who have been in intimate contact with Ebola patients on the honor system.
Not at all, the rules make total sense for the military, the military is more concerned about taking itself out through infectious diseases, not less so.
The military are ordered to West Africa and do not come into contact with Ebola patients. So, since they are at low risk they need to be quarantined.
Civilians, on the other hand, volunteer to go and do come in contact with Ebola patients. So, since they are at high risk they should not be quarantined.
You just need to understand what passes for logic in the regime.
Total idiocy. The point is, or should be, what danger might the returnees of whatever status pose to the population of the USA.
And if we are being told the truth about what most military personnel will be doing, they will actually have less contact with people infected, or potentially infected with ebola, than health care workers.
At least the military is being quarantined in a very nice area, close to Venice. I wonder how the Italians feel about it, though.
But if you're some goody two shoes lib, quarantine is too good for you. If the NJ Bitch gives it to someone else, I hope she gets sued into bankruptcy.
The military are ordered to West Africa and do not come into contact with Ebola patients. So, since they are at low risk they need to be quarantined.
Civilians, on the other hand, volunteer to go and do come in contact with Ebola patients. So, since they are at high risk they should not be quarantined.
You just need to understand what passes for logic in the regime.
Now I know what it feels like to be a robot from Star Trek when Kirk says something paradoxical and the robot shorts out.
LOL!
Thomas Eric Duncan was not treating patients either...
Haircuts cause it.
I had to look up, paradoxiceal. Didn’t remember what it was...I had a doxical growing up, but never a pair of them...
The military may not want to quarantine literally each individual, just because they were in West Africa, but their standards will probably be strict.
Republican politicians should be easily able to use the logic of why the construction guys are being quarantined before returning to their mother units, to explain why Obama should be quarantining the people who’s job it is to treat the Ebola patients during their most infectious times and liquid death throes, and which accounts for all American infections so far.
Meanwhile, foreign citizens from Obola zones are allowed to freely enter the U.S.
“The military? They are paid to die. That’s what they do. They are stupid, and because they are stupid, we put them in quarantine, which is what we should do with the military regardless of Ebola.
Civilians? Not dumb enough to volunteer, for the military at least. I’m going to treat the civilians differently from the military just to piss everyone off, and to underline that the military should just shut up and die in a tent somewhere.”
- from a thought bubble above Obola’s head.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Sorry Lyng King, I read the book.
POS
I hate Chicago. We need one more cow.
the U.S. Military needs to ‘circumscribe’ their allegiance to the illegal orders from their illegal ‘commander & chief ‘
JUST SAY NO
I saw the hero of Benghazi make a statement on the lawn in front of his escapes chopper.
He seemed to be saying that the military would not have direct contact as the health care workers and they would have a 21 day quarantine because they were different.
Didn’t he have it backwards. Shouldn’t those who have direct care contact be the ones quarantined. What did I miss?
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