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2014-09-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Skidmark 2014-09-16 10:58|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 This will be a huge disaster.

The only thing that will work at this stage is forceably quarantine houses, villages, even whole towns, and shoot people if they try to leave.

Something the US troops won't do.

More Drs and hospital beds won't make any difference.

Posted by phil_b 2014-09-16 18:49|| 2014-09-16 18:49|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't like it, not even a little. Air drop the tents and supplies from 1250 AGL. Let them keep the cargo chutes for room dividers.

What ever happened to "Afri solutions for Afri problems?"

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-16 19:16|| 2014-09-16 19:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Seventeen 100 bed facilities is probably already inadequate. Training 500 health care workers/week strikes me as ambitious, but since they don't need to be full-fledged RNs, will probably help the professionals. What really will make a difference is handing out hundreds of thousands of home health care kits with instructions in their use. James, i think it was, was asking the other day about bleach and using bleach-saturated cloth as a compromise between First World kit and nothing at all. I hope he sees this, and is comforted.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-16 19:17|| 2014-09-16 19:17|| Front Page Top

#4 But bottom line, the idea that this should be the American military's highest priority strikes me as madness, as does taking funding from actual military projects like Iraq and all those other places our troops already quietly are.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-16 19:20|| 2014-09-16 19:20|| Front Page Top

#5 But bottom line, the idea that this should be the American military's highest priority strikes me as madness.... trailing wife

Little more than sycophant Dempsey repeating what he's been told by the Champ. Remember, these are 'his people', his ticket to one day become Secretary General of the U.N., or win another Nobel prize, or both. "Madness" yes, politically motivated? Yes again, just like everything else Champ says or does.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-16 19:26|| 2014-09-16 19:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Military are subject to UCMJ. Desertion and failure to obey are usually not crimes associated with 'civilian' employees/hires who can say 'screw it' and bail. Your very expensively trained military are expendable for ~~social justice~~ liberal guilt projects. Isolation works, but is not considered an option by the bleeding hearts.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-16 19:29|| 2014-09-16 19:29|| Front Page Top

#7 In part the problem is too many anumerate people who don't understand what exponential means.

Onward transmission rate looks to be between 1.5 and 2, and closer to the latter number.

Any number over 1 is still exponential, albeit more slowly.

Posted by phil_b 2014-09-16 19:37|| 2014-09-16 19:37|| Front Page Top

#8 I think we should deploy that Obama Youth Corps. Go call those volunteers to action. Get up, do something for Barry and Africa!

Let's Go Hollywood, lead the way! Show us not why we fight, but why we love! Got their six now Alec Baldwin? I knew it, big old dancing circus bear you!

Imhotep! Imhotep! Imhotep!

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-09-16 20:47|| 2014-09-16 20:47|| Front Page Top

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