Pentagon: Troops Without 'Ebola Awareness Certificate' Will Be Locked Down To Base
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Top safety officers in the Pentagon ordered a military-wide safety stand down so all service members can be told that Ebola is a bad disease, Duffel Blog has learned.
Doctors with knowledge of the briefing said that service members will be shown "Overreaction And Media Hype," a 90 slide PowerPoint detailing how to avoid a disease that has affected nine Americans.
After the briefing, service members must pass a quiz to receive their Ebola Awareness certificate. Anyone without the certificate is to be considered a public health risk and not allowed to leave base.
The training begins with slides saying “Ebola is a disease” and “You should try to avoid catching Ebola,” information that some service members apparently didn’t know. The presentation continues with a slide that states “The virus is only transferable by direct contact, so don’t touch someone if they’re bleeding from their eyeballs, nose, mouth, anus, or pretty much at all.”
“Wow, good thing someone told me that,…
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