I was watching the Daily Rundown on MSNBC (a political news show...left leaning but they at least try and keep it down the middle) and they, like everyone else is covering the Ebola situation.
At the end of the show they did a a quick update of the incident so far and crunched the numbers on how many beds are currently available for any new Ebola patients.
The number is 10.
We're sending 4,000 troops to the outbreak in West Africa. If you've been on deployment you know all about the idiotic, stupid, insane shit that happens even if people aren't shooting at you.
And I'm talking about a normal deployment.
Mix a deployment with Ebola, along with collapsing governments and then terrorist activity and I can almost guarantee that you will have some troops coming down with the disease.
Additionally, we only have the capability to transport one patient at a time by air.
So please tell me again how we're going to take care of our injured troops if a squad comes down with this disease?
Sidenote: Has anyone noticed that Ebola is attacking medical professionals in the US in the same way that it attacked aid workers in Africa? By that I mean that Ebola showed up and medical professionals in those countries set about killing it. Instead Ebola started killing them and then there were too few to contain it and the disease mushroomed. Take the tally. Two nurses in the hospital and another 75 medical workers at home under self observation.
At the end of the show they did a a quick update of the incident so far and crunched the numbers on how many beds are currently available for any new Ebola patients.
The number is 10.
We're sending 4,000 troops to the outbreak in West Africa. If you've been on deployment you know all about the idiotic, stupid, insane shit that happens even if people aren't shooting at you.
And I'm talking about a normal deployment.
Mix a deployment with Ebola, along with collapsing governments and then terrorist activity and I can almost guarantee that you will have some troops coming down with the disease.
Additionally, we only have the capability to transport one patient at a time by air.
So please tell me again how we're going to take care of our injured troops if a squad comes down with this disease?
Sidenote: Has anyone noticed that Ebola is attacking medical professionals in the US in the same way that it attacked aid workers in Africa? By that I mean that Ebola showed up and medical professionals in those countries set about killing it. Instead Ebola started killing them and then there were too few to contain it and the disease mushroomed. Take the tally. Two nurses in the hospital and another 75 medical workers at home under self observation.
