Where is the federal help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whoever put both of these ships in drydock at the same time needs to be fired!

March 18, 2020
By Nick Blenkey

The U.S. Navy (click here) is preparing to deploy its two hospital ships — USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy —in response to the coronavirus outbreak. However, in a press briefing at the Pentagon yesterday, Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper indicated that they would not be used to treat coronavirus patients directly, but to alleviate the pressure on shoreside facilities.

Here’s what the Secretary said:

“With regard to the hospital ships, there are two, as you know. The — the Comfort is on the East Coast; the Mercy, on West Coast in Norfolk and — and San Diego, respectively. The Comfort is undergoing maintenance and the Mercy is — is — is at port. We’ve already given orders to the Navy a few days ago to lean forward, in terms of getting them ready to deploy. They provide capabilities, but much like what DOD does provide, our capabilities are focused on trauma. And so whether it’s our field hospitals, whether it’s our — our — our hospital ships, they are focused on trauma. They don’t have necessarily the — the space, the segregated spaces you need to deal with infectious diseases. And so one of the ways by which you could use either field hospitals, the — the hospital ships or things in between is to take the pressure off of civilian hospitals when it comes to trauma cases, is to open up civilian hospital rooms for infectious diseases....

Excuse me? Navy Doctors dont' understand how to use available space for isolation. 

THIS IS IDIOTIC. The trauma cases could be carrying the coronavirus. The hospital ships AND STAFF better bone up very quickly on isolation and the care of ventilator patients outside the idea of trauma.

NOW!

These are Americans and they are in crisis!!!!!