The Covid-19 Transcripts
Interview is 01.33.50 into today's show at https://www.stephaniemiller.com/
Interview is 01.33.50 into today's show at https://www.stephaniemiller.com/
SM: Oh hi Malcolm Nance,** I saved this story for you: With all these layers of
chaos, you've seen the Navy Captain letter, of the U.S. Roosevelt is begging
for help while the coronavirus quickly spreads among the crew. Yeah a ship- what
a great place to try to contain… where 150 to 200 sailors have tested positive on
a carrier of more than four thousand. His letter said we are not at war,
sailors do not need to die, if we do not act now, it's failure to take care of
our most trusted asset our sailors, this is just another layer of just criminal
negligence right?
This man knew what he was doing
by allowing the contents of that letter to leak. He was sacrificing his career for the lives
of the four thousand sailors that he has on his ship. Hey, as far as I'm concerned he's the next
Secretary of the Navy because anybody that would make a decision like that, would
beg for the life of their crew and let them understand that we are not in
combat.
That ship was not in
war. It can quarantine, you can take the
crew off, you can isolate, you can go to a skeleton crew, we do it all the time,
but the fact is that the military in some quarters is really far behind, because
they haven’t received the proper directives.
You have to understand, their directives come from the White House through
Secretary of Defense through the Secretary of the Navy and on down.
This captain understood that good order and discipline
of his ship and the lives of his crew were at risk.
Believe me I've been on many carriers. They're not as big as you think when you're talking
about pestilence, right, when you're talking about a disease that is invisible,
where the guy in the chow hall behind you can't be six feet behind you. Right, they just don’t have the space for that. And you could be getting that virus for two
weeks, there's just no way to do it and you know, since they're on a ship and they're
not in combat, they're going to get the test. Staff in our main hospitals aren’t
even getting the test. So this is a
disgrace, yet another in a series of disgraces.
Hoisted upon us by "the moron in chief."
SM: There's a price we're all going to pay in the
deaths, how long this is going to go on.** Malcolm Nance is an intelligence and foreign policy analyst, author, and media commentator on terrorism, intelligence, and insurgency.
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I wrote my take on the USS Roosevelt here https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-sense-does-this-make-mario-cuomo.html
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Posted by Kay Ebeling
Producer, City of Angels Blog
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ReplyDeleteI served on an aircraft carrier with a crew the size of a small town ... the kind I lived in in Wisconsin -- population of about 5,000 people. At the present time we are under social distancing restrictions ... on my carrier it was impossible to do that. We lived and worked in some pretty close and cramped quarters. I would be very easy to a virus to spread ... as it would on any U.S. Navy ship. The captain of the Roosevelt should be reinstated as captain ... and given a promotion and a medal to boot. He was fired by ACTING Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly ... note the word Acting ... and has probably never, ever set foot on a U.S. Navy ship. This guy should also be removed from his office, as well as the Commander-in-Chief who gave him the order. I would have been proud to have served under an officer like the Captain of the Roosevelt.