WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark Esper says more than 4,000 National Guard reservists have been deployed in 31 states to help battle the coronavirus.
Esper told Fox News that the Army Corps of Engineers were in New York three days ago working to help identify sites, such as college dorms or hotels, that it could renovate for hospital beds. Esper says the military also is preparing Army units to assemble field hospitals.
Esper, who has spoken with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, says the Comfort hospital ship will be in New York. He says the Mercy hospital ship will be deployed early next week on the West Coast.
He adds 67 U.S. service members are infected with coronavirus and that 1,500 Americans are quarantined on four U.S. bases in an effort to lighten the burden on the nation’s civilian medical facilities.
I hope that I’m remembering this incorrectly, or it was reported incorrectly, but one of the ships in Norfolk for repairs, and I hope that they can get the ship ship shape on on it’s way soon. But does the Navy station on of these on the West Coast and one on the East Coast? Is their a Naval repair yard on the West Coast, there has to be, right?
Hopefully, they are bringing enough ammo to defend themselves from the COVID-45 deniers…
It’s not just toilet paper and hand sanitizer that people are stocking up on as the COVID-19 coronavirus forces America into social distancing. Gun sellers are also reporting a large surge in firearm and ammunition purchases
https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-pandemic-reportedly-americans-stocking-113527485.html
So will the NYU dorms that they’re evicting students from shortly be re-used to care for cases?
This is OK - but I can’t help thinking of the international troops sent in after the Haitian earthquake that unleashed cholera into the area.
Of course they are, how can one have a pandemic without guns? You’re so silly.