{"id":55691,"date":"2014-10-08T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55691"},"modified":"2014-10-08T06:46:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T10:46:35","slug":"pentagon-some-troops-deployed-to-africa-will-have-to-handle-infected-blood-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55691","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon: some troops deployed to Africa \u201cwill have to handle infected blood samples\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember that\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Administration feelgood exercise<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 military deployment to Africa to combat the Ebola outbreak? The one where the Administration first insisted that no troops would treat Ebola patients – even though uniformed USPHS Commissioned Corps personnel, who may be militarized by Presidential order<\/a>, and who are also by law uniformed service personnel who qualify for VA benefits, PX\/commissary privileges, and TRICARE<\/a>, will be staffing one of the hospitals being built by US forces<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Well, other than that part about PHS Commissioned Corps, I guess that\u2019s technically<\/em> true. But as is often the case with this \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0DC clown krewe<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Administration, it\u2019s not the full story.\u00a0 Here, that initial statement was misleading as hell – IMO by design.<\/p>\n

It turns out that a number of uniformed military personnel deployed to West Africa will in fact be handling blood samples taken from Ebola patients<\/a> in mobile testing labs.\u00a0 A Pentagon spokesman, RADM John Kirby, has acknowledged that the risk involved is high, \u201cif not more risk\u201d than direct contact with Ebola patients.<\/p>\n

DoD has already set up 3 such mobile testing labs in West Africa. Four more have been requested.<\/p>\n

Of course, GEN David Rodriguez, US AFRICOM Commander, recently stated that containing the spread of Ebola \u201cis a national security priority for President Obama\u201d.\u00a0 Presumably, that’s why we’re deploying forces to his AO.<\/p>\n

That statement is . . . interesting.<\/p>\n

I say that, because we currently haven\u2019t imposed any quarantine requirements for people entering this country who\u2019ve been in the area of the outbreak within Ebola\u2019s known incubation period \u2013 and who may be asymptomatic carriers for up to 21 days after exposure. And we still haven’t imposed a ban on nonessential travel to the area by US citizens and legal residents.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s it going to take for us to do that \u2013 someone bringing the virus here before they show symptoms? Oh, wait: that\u2019s already happened in Dallas. I guess it will take substantially more than that to convince us to take this sh!t seriously.<\/p>\n

So pardon me for not exactly taking that \u201cnational security priority\u201d statement at face value. If containing Ebola were truly a \u201cpriority\u201d, we\u2019d be imposing substantially stricter entry controls on travelers from the outbreak region than we do today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember that\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Administration feelgood exercise\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 military deployment to Africa to combat the Ebola outbreak? The one … Pentagon: some troops deployed to Africa \u201cwill have to handle infected blood samples\u201d<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}