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The Pentagon Will Use 30 Person "Quick-Strike Team" To Deal With Domestic Ebola Patients
President Obama may have been busy golfing this weekend, and his brand new Ebola Czar may have had more pressing matters to attend than the White House's Saturday evening meeting on the US "response to domestic Ebola cases" (because clearly the Ebola Czar is superfluous at such Ebola-related events), but that doesn't mean that the administration will once again be caught with its pants down the next time an Ebola index patient is unveiled on US soil. Nope.
In taking a page right out of America's response to the Ebola pandemic in... West Africa, where the US has dispatched several thousands troops to do, something, unclear what, earlier today, it was revealed that the U.S. military is forming a 30-person "quick-strike team", which according to CNN is "equipped to provide direct treatment to Ebola patients inside the United States, a Defense Department official told CNN's Barbara Starr on Sunday."
The team will be under orders to deploy within 72 hours at any time over the next month, the official said. The Department of Health and Human Services requested the military team, and the Pentagon has given verbal approval, the official said.
The team will include five doctors, 20 nurses and five trainers, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement.
The Pentagon has been working to determine what assistance it could offer the civilian health care sector following a White House meeting last week during which President Barack Obama said he wanted a more aggressive response, according to two Defense officials.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered chief of the Northern Command, Gen. Chuck Jacoby, "to prepare and train a 30-person expeditionary medical support team that could, if required, provide short-notice assistance to civilian medical professionals in the United States," Kirby said.
Jacoby is already working with the military on the joint team, Kirby said, and once formed, it will head to Fort Sam Houston in Texas for up to seven days of training in infection control and personal protective equipment. The training, provided by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, will begin "within the next week or so," Kirby said.
The team will remain in "prepare-to-deploy" status for 30 days, he said. It will be able to respond anywhere in the U.S. if "deemed prudent by our public health professionals," he said.
To summarize: the Pentagon, as in the US army, will provide direct treatment to Ebola patients.
So just how exactly is the US army's crack 30-person "SWAT" team which has a whopping 5 doctors, more competent to deal to deal with what is, at last check, a medical situation than, say, America's medical professionals? Or is, in the parlance of our times, where an "Iraq military advisor" really means crack commando fighting Syrian troops on the ground on behalf of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, "direct treatment" merely a euphemism for something far less enjoyable?
For the partial answer to some of these questions, please read "Public Health Emergency Declared In Connecticut Over Ebola: Civil Rights Suspended Indefinitely, and also "Obama Mobilizes National Guard, Army Reserves To Fight Ebola" - they serve as a good starting point for where all of this is ultimately headed.
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I feel safer already.
Not necessarily a bad idea, and they just have to do better than the CDC.
Low hurdle.
It's a quick reaction "force" to deal with "ebola" cases. Think about what that means.
Obolapocalypse?
Pentagon?
Ebama has gone full retard "folks".
naahh....he's just makin' sure that we get a quick ride to the FEMA camp for our safety
Any person suspected to be exposed to Ebola may require isolation and vikings funeral in a solar oven.
It takes 30 to operate an incinerators?
It's doctors and nurses.
It's like a training mission in rapid response.
I think they'll actually try to be spit-and-polish and so on.
We'll see soon enough, won't we?
DOG AND PONY SHOW!
WATCH THE 1ST BRIGADE, 3RD INFANTRY DIVISION...
WHEN THEY MOVE!!!
then it is on!
P.S. HOW MANY CLIPBOARD GUYS ARE THERE???
Yep donky kong moment. Or maybe a Cruz missle from virgina class up the potomac
Whew. 0.00000008 ratio to the population. Yup, that will work. NOT!
Thomas Eric Duncan and all Illegal Aliens are Selfish Son of a Bitches
Say goodbye to Posse Comiatus. The US military is now in charge of maintaining power in this country. I don't know why we even bother commenting anymore. We are so far beyond any semblance of rights at this point it's absurd. There is the occupiers and the occupied, and we are the occupied. EOS.
Ah so we are all southern now
Its like a million yankee heads just exploded ;-)
Too many + 3 sigma events
Waiting for Obama to appoint a DROUGHT CZAR. Cause we all know ________ CZAR is a jobs program for the TRIBE
They will all be armed with clipboards!
But will they have drones?
The fact that they use the word, czar, and get away with it, shows how far the US has fallen. Can you imagine if they tried to pull that crap in the 80s?
In the 80s it was just that different titles were used...same results.
How does the water in the pot feel now frog?
Exactly. It's like a prison that you have a semblance of moving around in, never alone, nor unwatched.
Obama will do anything to keep those borders open.... After all, stopping flights may make the people think his open border policy is incorrect and having him shut the border is not something he's willing to do.... no matter how many people he kills.
~"The team will be under orders to deploy within 72 hours at any time over the next month, the official said. The Department of Health and Human Services requested the military team, and the Pentagon has given verbal approval, the official said.
The team will include five doctors, 20 nurses and five trainers, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement."~
Sounds just like the team from Andromeda Strain, doesn't it?
Seems more like the group chasing "Howling Mad" Murdock around. Some of them were doctors I guess.
It's doctors and nurses.
It's like a training mission in rapid response.
I get sorta nervous when my nurse is wearing full body armour and packing a silenced MP-5.
Listen American Zero's.
I hope these Quick-Strikers luv "YOUR" freedoms.
Fool me once shame on eBola.
Hitler finds out Obama's let Ebola into Dallas
https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=youtube+hitler+ebola&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35
That's fucking hilarious.
It is funny.
Everything he says is TRUE.
They're fucking ASSCLOWNS.
The threat level has gone to brown!...lol.
THATS JUST WRONG
FUNNY!
BUT WRONG!
;-)
30 man team? Just enough for a photo op, unfortunately we could have multiple outbreaks all at once.
1 person to do any real work and 29 people to get in the way.
29 to get infected.
Hey, don't "treat" me, bro.
What sort of ammo do they plan on using?
Napalm...or maybe thermobarics, if they are worried about the "optics". They don't want photos of a crispy 8 yr old running from a napalmed Kindercare.
I suppose the Genova Convention is ok with it for domestic use, but it's purely academic I guess.
Not fit to manage a Kinkos. That about covers it.
We need people to keep track of the FEMA coffins so we have a heads-up on whether they are sending it our way.
For the paranoid: There is a massive pit dug out off the 30 freeway over by Norton AFB in California. They could bury a lot of FEMA coffins there.
That's for used Federal Reserve Notes - the US was about to exceed the CO2 emissions quota.
"I love the money fire"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ
Fuck posse comitatus it is an emergency.
Cough, Sarc off.
Excellent doc
9/11:Explosive Evidence;Expert Testimonies of WTC1,2,7 Controlled Demolition 2001-2013,September 11https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDKusb5v7hg
Bad times are here. Good luck and never give in.
Hell, it's just a team of military doctors and nurses. It's a MASH unit. Think Hawkeye, Trapper, Hot-Lips, Radar, and all the gang!
Good times.
Pentagon almost got vomited on by tourist Ebola lady (who was later declared "negative" based on questioning).
Do they have video?
I found Francis Sawyer. Looks like he found a way to combine two of his favorite things:
http://epicwtfs.com/post/34100093967/swastikock-tattoo
Here is another pic of Francis before he got the Tattoo:
https://justwilliam1959.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/police-shtf-shtu-underwear.jpg
Think about what that means.
Moar bodybags
Totes don't care! Ebola is like soooo last week.
And after thirty days ?????????
So I guess Bidens Son won't be on the team......
I agree, perhaps prevent another clusterfuck like that which occured at the Dallas hospital. Not the cynical doomsday comment that most ZHers prefer and who would prefer a do nothing approach that could be criticized later.
Tune back next week when members of the tea party start disappearing after being misteriously diagnosed with Obola.
Please, don't Quick Strike me, Bro.
Bring-It-Fucking-On ;-)
And when that fails they will use a daisy cutter out the ass of a c130
We are fucked.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm fucked
Will they kiss us first at least?
We always were. Time to get on with the rest of our lives.
Shoot first, confirm diagnose later?
Taser.
Or "Jim with the tranquilizer gun will now subdue the infected animal..er, citizen.". Wild Kingdom...." Now we're the hunted."
or when jim (the poor bastard who did all the grunt work)..
decided to wrestle the ANACONDA...
that snake almost ate him...
all the villagers were on that snake with CLUBS, HAMMERS, ROCKS...
with earl in the backround saying..'THIS COULD BE TROUBLE..."
(well, jim...these arent snakes your looking to wrestle...these are men and women...and they're a hella lot more dangerous than snakes)
Just sprinkle some ebola on him.
........killing them softly.....
Kind of surprised they did not have something like this already set up. What do they have all those black helicopters for anyway?
Squatchin' and Mobile Cattle BBQs apparently.
Need a humor break?:
Ted Rall's one-panel cartoon rendition of Obola airport screening (17 October):
Armpits Must Be Dry
On the death certificate of the patient with Ebola: "We had to kill him to cure him."
They need to add this "Strike Force" as well as an "Ebola Level" to the new Call of Duty cominng out. Keep the sick from breaking in and over running the hospital. Multiplayer should be good. Choose your side. LOL Call of Duty is REAL. At least my Mom says it is...and I am training.
So is that the 5.56 treatment?
Fuck. Billions of waste forthcoming. Followed by forced inoculations of some nano-vaccine weapon.
look at the ent clock this am hit 17.9trillion tonight 17,910 trillion 10 billion in debt today
'Response Team Czar' ... five years at 245,000 per year in still just a little less that a million
5x245,000=1,225,000
So yeah, a little less than a million. As if that is what the problem is here.
I don't want any US Army doctors. They fu*ked up my best friend's ankle and he's walked with a limp and pain ever since.
Does this really mean boots on the ground?
Is the clipboard guy on that team?
That was Cigarette Man from the X-files. He gets around.
Load up a Predator with Hellfire missiles full of bleach and formaldehyde!
Obama .... 'We can fight this thing from the air' ... 'Oh, that was ISIL, sorry'
one day there gunna make ebola flavored jelly bellys
.
cuz no one gets it bitches
Delta Force remade..The Ebola Force....
More like The Ebola Farce....
..may The Farce be with You!
What are they going to do when 31 Americans have Ebola at once.
Obozo will sign an Executive Order allowing only one person at a time to be infected. Simple!
I love it ... a one-off epidemic.
They upgrade from the 5.56 to the 7.62 treatment.
flamethrowers
I thought Obola hated the military. The guy won the fucking Nobel Peace prize without doing the first thing he promised (he's done little since). Maybe the truth is he does hate the military, until he really needs them. What a tool. Buck Farack.
Throw all the ebola suspects into the Superdome down in New Orleans - it'll be just like Katrina - but 100x worse.
Knowing the Government, the treatment will be a howitzer straight to the face.
Why?
It's loud, unneccessary, and causes more damage than it should.
yet another episode in the cloward-piven saga
BINGO
First decimate your military.
Is this supposed to be a quick response team? Taking 72 hours before you get going is just nuts. By that time the patient has already had 3 days to infect scores of nurses and may already have died.
I don't know ... I can get anywhere in the US in 6 hours ... what are they doing in the other 66 hours
Post-pre-paring....
Warming up their Rapidity...
Rapiding their preparedness...
Shouting Go Go Go.....
72 hrs is standard deployment time--for standard situations, but yeah, doesn't work in this case.
The guys who will treat Ebola are the guys who were retired, were called back.
I mean, the left over AIDS.
Here is a video of our "Ebola Czars":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k
hehe.
Thanks, I needed that to get my head aligned right.
When that came out, I had no idea about the uh er ahem "gay" side of those guys, at all.
Now I look at that and OMFG!
And even when they're on the NYC street, the club awning behind them is for the "RamRod"
Oh, JHFC....
I guess that preacher fella was being serious when he said it's worse then Rome, Sodom and Gomorrah.
Bear:
:-)
A very good song to run trails in the woods and kill people.
I'm serious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY
: - /
LOL
sick fuck.... but true
Diferença entre uma guerra e outra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEJRhZvcBJg
:-)
My view:
This is Pentagon sticking it to Obama and openly helping repubs to win in November regardless of of how much repubs actually want to lose.
30 "specialists" can do absolutely nothing.
This is Pentagon telling Obama: "Fuck you"
Sounds like five 6-person teams, each consisting of 1 doctor, 4 nurses and 1 trainer. That's enough to make sure things are being done right.
1 DOCTOR, 4 NURSES AND 1 CLIPBOARD GUY...FIX IT FOR YA..
Putz!
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
:-)
Assuming that lunatics don’t run everything and that these teams have experience working with level 4 biohazard viruses, then this sound like the first sensible response.
It is possible someone in the military did an appreciation of the threat and the current response and decided that the outlook looked grim. With the lack of containment (potentially exposed people running around everywhere) an Ebola patient may appear anywhere (they have up to 21 days to travel before they may know that they were infected). Its clear that the level of understanding about viruses that require BSL 4 protocols is lacking among medical officials/hospitals. It would be impossible to have every hospital up to the required level in time. 6 man teams that can assess the situation on the ground, advise and provide training is a excellent response. (Seems unlikely that this was run passed the Ebola Czar).
72 hrs is a little slow for "rapid response"
LMFAO...Quick Strike Team. Something I've said from the beginning would make sense. As soon as a victim is ID'd, put a 9mm between their eyes, Hazmat bag em and incinerate the remains. Problem on the way to being solved.
No cruise ships, no wedding planning jet abouts. Dead, buried. Case closed. Might also make those immigrating with the disease get the idea that staying home for treatment might be the best option. One round of a 9mm is a helluva lot cheaper than a $ 500K ISO ward.
Better yet. How about putting a bounty out on them. Guarantee you some homie would bust a cap in ones ass quicker than the QRT made the scene. Feds could make a few extra bucks selling permits, just like deer hunting season. Fun for everyone.
I am sure when your loved one is infected you will be the first to put said 9mm in their skull as quick as possible.
And when you discover you are infected you will, of course, do us the service yourself.
he talks a good game...
but it aint that easy...
even when dealing with your enemies who were beyond help...like in 91...
.....actually i think he is just suffering from a more virulent form of cognitive ebola .......it's been infecting the inter web for some time now the most prominent symptom is uncontrolled mental defecation as we've been witnessing more frequently......
.. I'm guessing stage three from his post.....won't be long now....
Although the "evidence" is "poor-to-non-existent", there are at least suggestions amongst the cognoscenti that there "should" be a benefit in initiating antiretroviral therapy (along the same lines as current HIV post-exposure prophylaxis). Some "evidence" that Lamivudine has shown a benefit - http://directorsblog.nih.gov/2014/10/14/nih-ebola-update-working-toward-treatments-and-vaccines/.
Our (Departmental, so "sort of official") plan is to go for Atripla (multiple viral target engagement), but of coourse there's NO data on this application / drug combination.
Treatment duration? Again unknown. B lymphocyte response (antibody production) has an initial delay of a few days, with peak response in 10 - 14 days, so our initial plan is to go for 5 days treatment (so 6 Patients per pack of 30 tablets). By that time there should be some neutralising antibody floating around, and the Patient will have at least had 5 day's reasonably virus free to "get things going".
Not anywhere near approval - still at the very informal discussion stage, so any thoughts from the ZH Crowd will be welcome!
You wanna know what the problem is with that solution?
blood splatter
The real problem with that "solution" is that anybody who thinks they may be infected will not come forward but will take some panadols and other meds and pretend to their neighbours that they have a cold. They have a 30% chance of surviving verses a 100% of getting shot. Meanwhile their neighbours have become infected.
You are so right. Now just don't cough when in public.
"If they cough, sneeze, bleed, hiccup, or throwup, shoot!"
...... with that attitude ...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
I feel so much better now.
CDC? Homeland Security? FEMA? Now DOD? No wonder they need a Czar! I bet the Czar will be given direct civilian (i.e. White House) control of the US Military!
3 degrees of seperation and you have been expossed.
when they are not busy with muslim outreach.....
Didju all know that NASA's prime directive is now Muslim Outreach?
Seriously Google it (with something other than Google, of course)
Herr Werner von Braun would be so proud ;-)
@ Knukles:
There is a big difference between those who live there and do not even notice the changes, and who sees things out.
People passing every two or five years a city has a different perception.
I saw the USA released today see the USA scared.
Believe me, nobody in the world will face you, the staff is just waiting feet of clay crumble.
Nobody attacks the USA like a school of piranhas, other countries do not need to attack.
BRICS for example, only need to skip the $, the rest of Europe will.
I sincerely pity, the population of the USA, do not deserve the government they have, but does have a lot of guilt.
Let the shit get where it is, each one thinks only itself and not to criticize the neighbor because it has a flag in the wrong place or left to cut the bushes in front of house.
There are many other examples of "politically correct" that are an imbecility and only disintegrate.
The end of the trail is to denigrate those who have a belief, a Christian child write a lower istory that my comment and go to jail!
Honestly, you extrapolated, "jumped the Corguinho" that the politically correct thing.
A guy like Snowden who speaks the truth is Bandit, a son of a bitch liar as your president wins Nobel prize.
There are many things reversed, common sense and the common law were to shit in their society.
Unfortunately this is the truth.
I'm sorry if sincerity.
:-)
Direito Consuetdinário.
É o Direito dos costumes, o Google nunca traduz isso do português para o inglês.
Provavelmente tem medo que as ovelhas saibam o significado disso.
hehe.
The great virtue of military doctors and nurses is that, when ordered to do something unsafe or un-ethical, they pretty much just have to salute and say "yes, sir".
Private sector doctors and nurses are burdened with all those inconvenient things like personal conscience, ethical guidelines, standard practice procedures, union protections etc
It's disturbing to see the shit-heads in charge trying to turn this into a military response situation. But it's not surprising.
@ Binko:
I agree with you, in battle field hospital has nothing to do with M * A * S * H *.
The thing is brutal and cruel.
Unfortunately.
Conditioning of the sheople at its finest.
This is not the job of the military, even if they are one of the most capable (Chris Martenson footnote here).
Anyone with half a brain sees how this scales.
I just wanted to say to all my ZH friends. If you wish to escape from all of this disaster that has become our world for just a moment of time and to just be able to laugh because it's funny and for no other reason. Not Obama, not Putin, not Ebola, not ISIS, not anything other than its just funny.
Then go. Go now and immediately watch......Airplae the movie.
GO NOW AND..................LAUGH.
That is all.
Barbara works at the Pentagon so she must be a 5-pointed Starr
It's interesting that this is a military team. I guess that this fits in with the idea that most Americans hold that the government is completely incompetent to handle any problem, but the military is capable of everything. For example, the military was supposed to be able to go to Iraq and set up representative, democratic, free enterprise system. LOL!
Evidence suggests that many Ebola infections are asymptomatic,1, 2 a factor overlooked by recent outbreak summaries and projections.3 Particularly, results from one post-Ebola outbreak serosurvey1 showed that 71% of seropositive individuals did not have the disease; another study2 reported that 46% of asymptomatic close contacts of patients with Ebola were seropositive.
Asymptomatic infections are unlikely to be infectious---I translate unlikely to mean they don't know.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61839-0/fulltext
I've been pondering that one. There may be a window where they are carrying enough virus to be infective before their immune system beats it. I doubt it, though.
The degree of contagion tends to correlate to the viral load so people who are asymptomatic but seropositive are believed to have a very low viral load. It makes sense.
The one that gets me is that about 85% of people who present with full Ebola symptoms are afebrile. That negates most of the airport screening and half of the differentiation in triage.
I really don't think we'll see many cases here but given the approach of flu season, I feel sorry for the ER staff who will have to deal with the worried flu patients who think they may have something worse.
Libra is known to seek fairness and balance. Enjoy your posts.
I hate to repeat myself (and it is actually another poster who pointed this out) but there is no way the airport is equipped to deal with it if someone actually does have Ebola. You detect the fever, take them aside, and...you have a hazmet suit, ready to go? Will others be in the holding area, uninfected, to catch it too? And will you scrub the holding area down with bleach? How far will you evacuate for the cleaning? And when will you decide to evacuate? Another poster pointed out the "lack of incentive" screeners will have to do anything at all. Yet another group of folks have pointed out that the "gun" thermometers are not very accurate. The so called screening is a "show" that is virtually meaningless.
So is the TSA.. it's all just security theater.
You have been reported to the TSA and HLS.,.
"The so called screening is a "show" that is virtually meaningless. "
groping grandma and 2 year old white children is very effective at showning the American people : we can do anything to you. Obey.
I confess I don't know how the airports/airlines are supposed to deal with this. I'd love to see their official protocols. While it's seems true that the low contagiousness of ebola seems to hold so long as one is not exhibiting symptoms, there will be people who come through with fevers even though the no-touch thermometers are likely not always being used properly and apparently are not being calibrated on a regular basis. Most of these people will actually have malaria or something other than ebola, but in that moment when you don't know that, you feel very exposed if you're the airport worker or fellow passengers.
You're right, for those people who are taken aside for an interview there may be some who will profile positively for ebola. In those cases, areas will have to be decontaminated carefully because doing a large area will spread alarm but too small an area will do no good.
As for the screeners having a lack of incentive, I can't get to that mindset. If they let someone in who is positive, they're responsible for unleashing great potential harm. I guess if they aren't bothered by that, there's more wrong here than I would like to acknowledge.
Thank you, MsC. You're one of the people I make a habit of reading whenever I see your avi.
Weaponized drones and infrared temp sensors. Blow away anything with a fever.
Those 30-man light platoons will be prepared to innoculate you . . . in 5.56 or 7.62.
So far the committment is for one toon.
Most fast reaction forces are anywhere in 24 hours...so not sure why so slow to get anywhere anytime necessary.
"five trainers, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said"
one for each arm and leg...and one "manager".
George Romero set to direct.
No one expects the Ebola Inquisition !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqreRufrkxM
And here's the stop gap gang. Every reported, credible case will need to be routed through this team first. And this is where it will end as well. Nothing will go beyond this team. The media won't even get a whiff. And neither will the American people. I'm telling you guys. It's over. Go back to sleep. It was so obvious what really happened on Thursday and Friday.
What Thursday / Friday event are you talking about?
Cheering up Flounder !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LARx7M9s15w
I feel really safe now.