Sending military troops to Africa to fight a deadly virus sounds like something an academic with no real world experience would do. It makes as much sense to send academic medical professionals to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The White House, aware that this is another way to harm Americans, intentionally proceeds with this misguided mission.
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in Africa as Ebola spreads, and President Obama’s decision to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to combat the virus could very well put Americans at risk of contracting the deadly illness at home, some health experts say.
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“You can see that these doctors, who are highly trained people, got themselves infected,” said Dr. Lee Hieb, former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. “So sending troops into an area, if they’re dealing one-on-one with a patient, they’re not going to be able to protect themselves very well. It’s not easy to [prevent transmission], because you get tired and you get careless and you make some simple mistakes. All it takes is one virus particle.”
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“You don’t get Ebola from Europe,” she told WND. “You get Ebola from Africa. And it’s a really simple formula: Don’t let people fly to America if they’ve been to areas where there’s an outbreak. When there’s an outbreak, stop air [traffic] flow.”
Hieb added, “If they’re going to use the troops to do population control, which is one of the ways you contain it, basically you just don’t let anybody out. You’d make a ring around where it is, and you’d quarantine the area.”
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Orient called the planned U.S. deployment a “dubious mission,” warning that the nightmarish scenario could bring Ebola to America.
“There is definitely a risk,” she said. “It seems irresponsible to send more people there when the ones already there are having trouble leaving.
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Elaine Donelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, who told WND, “I’m just appalled. Judging from this, the United States seems to have a very confused vision of what ‘national security’ means.”
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Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin charged that sending American troops to combat Ebola in Liberia is “an absolute misuse of the U.S. military.”
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the U.S. military is not designed to fight health wars.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/doctors-irresponsible-to-send-troops-to-combat-ebola/#24gI5UloVWJMbYFm.99
DOCTORS: 'IRRESPONSIBLE' TO SEND TROOPS TO 'COMBAT' EBOLA
Call for quarantine, banning flights to U.S. from nations with virus outbreaks
September 18, 2014
CHELSEA SCHILLING
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