fleet_admiral wrote: » Moyes should have bought him last season to solve his woes
The U.S. military will deploy about 3,000 personnel to West Africa to coordinate international aid, build treatment centers and train health-care workers as part of President Barack Obama's offensive against a rapidly worsening Ebola outbreak, a senior administration official said Monday.
WakeUp wrote: » ebola has gone exponential in Liberia anyways. the predictive models of future case rates some of the scientists have come out with are scary. even if they are just 10% accurate. this outbreak is different there is something different about it this time. and its been underestimated. more than most Im the first to give the US army stick and what not but in this instance fair play to them. but it isnt enough more needs to be done. this could take years to get under control even the WHO figures predict 20,000 fatalities before this has run its course. I reckon that might be an optimistic number. without wanting or needing to push the panic button we certainly need to watch this closely.
In a worst-case hypothetical scenario, should the outbreak continue with recent trends, the case burden could gain an additional 77,181 to 277,124 cases by the end of 2014.
"President Barack Obama on Tuesday called West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak a looming threat to global security and announced a major expansion of the U.S. role in trying to halt its spread, including deployment of 3,000 troops to the region."The reality is that this epidemic is going to get worse before it gets better,"
My name is URL wrote: » What are these 3000 troops going to be doing anyway? Patrol the borders of other countries.. limiting movement of those they see as suspicious? How very thoughtful of them all :rolleyes:
My name is URL wrote: » [*]football game in Croke Park - get two fighter-jets from Germany to do a flyover (at a cost of?)
dxhound2005 wrote: » How very inventive of you to make up all that.
My name is URL wrote: » G'wan so, Zacchaeus. What'll they be at over there..? Taking swabs and giving people sponge-baths?
The White House said the troops will not be responsible for direct patient care. Amid concern about infections, Obama said the "safety of our personnel will remain a top priority." Obama's plan calls for sending 3,000 troops, including engineers and medical personnel; establishing a regional command and control center in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, commanded by Major General Darryl Williams, who arrived there on Tuesday; and forming a staging area in Senegal to help distribute personnel and aid on the ground. It also calls for building 17 treatment centers with 100 beds each; placing U.S. Public Health Service personnel in new field hospitals in Liberia; training thousands of healthcare workers for six months or longer; and creating an "air bridge" to get health workers and medical supplies into West Africa more quickly.
Akrasia wrote: » This is exactly the kind of thing that the Military and civil defence forces should be doing. There is a crisis in Liberia that they do not have adequate resources to deal with themselves. Their medical crisis has global implications so the U.S. sending in assistance to build emergency medical treatment centres is an excellent development. Can the conspiracy theory loonies please step away from the keyboard? The Paranoid CT bullsh1t (as well as local superstitious nonsense) is actually costing lives and assisting with the spread of this disease. There are people refusing to present for treatment who have symptoms of the disease because they have been convinced that the authorities are not to be trusted.
Turtwig wrote: » Too little too late. Having just American troops on the ground sends the wrong message. The indigenous population are superstitious and scared as it is, last thing they need is a foreign military presence. Either all countries armies go or none. People are far too paranoid at the moment.
ceadaoin. wrote: » It's not just distrust of authority, many treatment centres are so poorly equipped that to go there means you probably will die. A lot of them are full anyway so the people that are going are being turned away to die in the streets which in turn leads to the disease spreading. This US aid is much needed and hopefully other countries will join and help to turn the tide. I know people like to think that this won't affect developed countries. I thought that too when it was first being reported, but if you have been following the outbreak at all then it's obvious that it is a threat. Norovirus manages to infect thousands of people every year and that is spread in a similar fashion to ebola.
Lapin wrote: » Yeah that was a poor decision. A dozen F-16s would have been a hell of a lot better !
Egginacup wrote: » 3000 US troops to be planted (most likely with guns and helicopters) in Liberia to "fight" Ebola. :pac:
My name is URL wrote: » It's not even funny. US leaders are literally calling for a 'war' on ebola The epidemic of the 'muricans involving their troops in absolutely everything they fcuking do presumably.football game in Croke Park - get two fighter-jets from Germany to do a flyover (at a cost of?) be a veteran of war and get a bad infection in a US hospital without the proper insurance and you'd be charged hundreds of thousands of dollars for treatment and probably counter-sued for costs What are these 3000 troops going to be doing anyway? Patrol the borders of other countries.. limiting movement of those they see as suspicious? How very thoughtful of them all :rolleyes:
SeanW wrote: » If you believe there is something else going on, why did you not start this thread in Conspiracy Theories?
Grayson wrote: » Plus there's always the danger of it mutating and becoming airborne. The risk is very small, but it gets bigger with each infection.
Canis Lupus wrote: » No it won't. Stop watching Outbreak.
