Wow! What doctors are saying about US troops going to Africa. Telling it like it is!!

I mentioned the 1918 flu in another post. If it happened today people would freak. The death toll was astronomical. Scary stuff. Will history repeat itself???

nah

they will go in and clean up

a job no one else wants

yep first thing that came to mind is that bullets may be more useful then doctors. Might be too late too.

You kidding? Why do you think most guys join the military, it's to shoot brown people in foreign countries.

That's pretty much the job description.

Forget all that "fighting for freedom crap" everyone knows the score.

I can't help thinking that 3000 troops is an awful small number for any kind of big scale operation. I would think that number could barely contain one small city...forget about a whole country.

Either there is a couple very defined locations like a base or mine or airport of strategic importance.. Or these troops are purposely being used to get infected and come home and kickstart a pandemic here.

Just doesnt make sense.

not good

I have a feeling any who go will not be coming back. Those people over there are dying, they have nothing to lose. Its a hot zone, and will be for some time. There is not much else that can be done to save them now. The fate of the 8 people last week was a clear message: don't go in there. Obama is going to f*ck this one up for sure.

Those 3000 are not going to Africa to 'combat' ebola
by making rings around contamination areas.

They are going to firebomb areas of contamination, and
are written off already because they will all die.

A new Hollywood movie is already in the making,'3000'

He is right. I say the troops have every right to refuse to go. Let the UN go

My husband is in the Army and he was informed that it is 92y (unit supply specialists) going to set up equipment etc. Pretty much move shit around and set up stuff. He will most likely be going since that's his MOS.

I hope your husband stays safe and healthy. I guess they are setting up field hospitals? Just seems to me it's not our responsibility. Maybe if the nations involved tried to help themselves and just couldn't some humanitarian aid would be the right thing to do but this is just a clusterfuck in the making. I can't imagine what good we can do there that is worth the risk. Really, I can't wrap my head around it.

Does it scare you as much as your avatar scares the rest of us?

Why is america using borrowed money to fund an ebola response team ?

The useless eaters of the world are in deeper shit than america when it comes to ebola , let the vaunted bric nations take point and get the applause

I don't think so ... for one thing, we know alot more about diseases and how they are spread now ... this one has been around since the mid seventies and it has never gotten out of Africa - and we have never halted air traffic or quarantined nations (or cities) .... yeah yeah yeah, there weren't as many people to spread it ... so it gets farther every time it flares up but better communications allow people to isolate themselves if it does come into their local environment, you will prob be safe if you stay away from hospitals and their employees ... til it burns itself out ...
the mortality rate is only around fifty percent if you do get it and that may be high - considering how many people don't get help/diagnosed - really can't compare the two diseases - other than they fact that they are prob both man made bio-weapons of mass distruction - Spanish flu is what stopped WWI - maybe ebola will stop WWIII

it is not even all over Africa ... its only in a few metro areas ... in a few countries ... again, its been around for fifty years now and life goes on -it seems like an awful way to go ... but I also seems like it can be avoided

I would go AWOL though before I would let an illegal alien put me in harm's way ... it should be a voluntary UN mission with extra hazard pay IMO

Actually, I believe the world would be best served is everybody made more decisions based on "feelings" (empathy) than on "logic". The gut/intuition is never wrong.

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