National Guard, SCSU To The Rescue

Not much "social distancing" in that first photo, and no masks or gloves either. What happens when the Guardsmen start to come down with COVID-19?

Good work. National Guard doing what a military should do: guarding the nation.

Thank you SCSU , National Guard, University of New Haven. Quinnipiac University. Yale, how is your Yale-only set up doing in Payne Whitney Gym?

Gretchen Pritchard, that's an unreasonable ask for people engaged in this kind of work. In addition, PPE is just in short supply everywhere and the military doesn't stock pile it any more than civilian authorities. The only readily available kit that they have are CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) masks which are not the right solution for this.

When the Guard is hit by COVID more than it already is, they'll use their TRICARE coverage and receive full medical health care. The military is keeping a large amount of its capability in reserve for an expected outbreak within the military (and which has already started).

Gretchen- just HOW are they supposed store and assembly equipment in gowns, masks, gloves and from 6ft away from each other! They're doing what they're highly trained to do. Wish them well and keep the negativity to yourself please.

Grethcen indeed has a point.

Didn't I just read an article about how bus drivers are coming down w/ this?

I also find it an ABOMINATION that DARPA and the smartest minds on the planet did not think to stock pile even basic face masks! Seriously? No one ever considered chemical warfare? Biowarfare?

This is another 9/11 and those in charge were asleep at the switch. Period. This is not to be partisan. This is to be factual.

I read every single page and footnote of the 9/11 report and boy did the government see this coming, and coming, and coming, and yet did NOTHING. Now, the federal gov throws up their hands and asks "Whadyawantmetodobabout it Fugghedabout it!"

The Tony Soprano anti-hero meme can only go so far. It is entertaining but also deadly.

This is why competence matters more than "charisma."

And PS

I think Governors Lamont, Cuomo, Raimondo and Baker are really showing us how and why technocratic competence matters. I wouldn't be surprised if superdelegates put one (or two) on the ticket. And we dems are pretty vers, amenable to flipping the top for the bottom.

shadowboxer: The bus drivers profiled in NHI are all old with pre-existing conditions. The military is typically younger, and pre-existing conditions like asthma generally prohibit service. There are some unhealthy folks in the military, but the proportion is much, much lower than in the general population. Being healthy makes a huge difference in susceptibility.
For example, a workplace I know of, one worker, with mild asthma and a deviated septum, developed a mild case of CoVID-19. None of the other workers in the office, however, have developed symptoms, although social distancing was impossible in their workspace.

Amazing what we can do when we put our minds and hearts to it. Too bad it takes a disaster to move us. This is a lesson I am taking away from all this.