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White House: ‘Not unusual’ for Ebola quarantine rules to differ for military, general population
Washington TImes ^ | October 28, 2014 | Tom Howell Jr

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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KEYWORDS: ebola; obama; obola; obummer; verucasalt
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To: justlittleoleme

Wow, Obama is FOS!

If the military weren’t interacting with potential infectees wouldn’t that make there LESS NEED to quarantine soldiers, not more?


41 posted on 10/28/2014 4:23:55 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Cvengr

Obama hates his “other side” of his bloodlines, he even is proud of it in his own “memoirs”.


42 posted on 10/28/2014 4:25:23 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: KarlInOhio

LOL!


43 posted on 10/30/2014 4:09:11 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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