The Wall Street Journal reports that troops from the Navy’s 133rd Mobile Construction Battalion began building the first of a dozen planned hospitals in a field outside the main airport in Liberia, one of three countries along with Sierra Leone and Guinea that has been hit the hardest by the epidemic. <\/p>\n
As of September 23, the Journal says 6,574 cases had been reported in five West African countries — Senegal and Nigeria are the other two — with 3,091 deaths reported. Those official numbers represent a twofold increase in both categories from August, and global health officials have repeatedly stated their belief that the number of cases has been underreported by a factor of three or four. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicted that the number of cases would skyrocket to 1.4 million without international aid. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There’s one of our commenters over on Facebook that keeps telling me that I shouldn’t oppose this particular operation because of the danger the virus presents to the world’s health. Well, I’m wondering why he isn’t over there fighting the disease. I have a problem with doing stuff for superstitious people who think that the folks who have come to help are the vectors of the virus.<\/p>\n
They kill folks trying to help them, they raid hospitals and steal the infected bedding and clothes and spread the virus even more. So all of these trained medical professionals are so concerned about Ebola, from behind their desks in Atlanta far from the people who need their expertise. Instead we send GI Joes and Janes who don’t have a choice – the folks who are already saving the world in other shitholes around the planet.<\/p>\n
So, if you people think this is such an important operation that deserves our attention, put on your contamination-protective suit and dig in next to the troops. It’s just my opinion that there are better-trained medical people than our troops who can do the job equally-well who are sitting safely in their cushy offices cheering for sending troops over there – and more than likely, they don’t think the troops should get an adequate benefit package for wading into that morass of disease and disrepair. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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