4,000 National Guard Troops Deployed Across Country To Combat COVID-19 | Talking Points Memo

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark Esper says more than 4,000 National Guard reservists have been deployed in 31 states to help battle the coronavirus.


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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?

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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

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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.

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To shoot the zombies. Aka neighbors violating the six-foot rule. Or neighbors telling them not to violate the six-foot rule. Or whichever family member wouldn’t let go of the remote.

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I’m going to say that the remote scenario will be the first case of using a gun to settle a pandemic dispute.