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Kaci Hickox, nurse who fought Ebola quarantine, leaving Maine
Bangor Daily News ^ | March 10, 2015 | Jackie Farwell

Posted on 03/10/2015 11:29:33 AM PDT by wbill

Kaci Hickox, the nurse who grabbed headlines for defying quarantines in New Jersey and Maine after treating Ebola patients in West Africa, is leaving the state.

Hickox, a Texas native, told me in an email that she’s moving to Oregon to take a job with a large health care system.

She arrived in Maine in October following a trip to Sierra Leone to care for Ebola patients, bringing the national debate over travel restrictions for health care workers returning from West Africa to Fort Kent’s doorstep. Hickox lived in the Aroostook County town during her showdown with the LePage administration, later relocating to Freeport and then Yarmouth.

As she insisted throughout the ordeal, Hickox never was infected with Ebola.

She has remained in the spotlight, named a person of the year by Time magazine, blasting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for his comments about vaccines, and embarking on speaking engagements to raise awareness about Ebola and the world’s response to the deadly virus.

She has said she hopes to return to West Africa.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: kacihickox
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Good riddance.

She'll fit in better in Oregon. Better still, in Africa.

1 posted on 03/10/2015 11:29:33 AM PDT by wbill
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Leaving a $500,000 unpaid bill behind, no doubt.


2 posted on 03/10/2015 11:31:25 AM PDT by BipolarBob
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She put so many people in jeopardy.

Oregon residents ought consider
increasing the health care insurance
(if anything exists at all, anymore).


3 posted on 03/10/2015 11:31:52 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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I think it’s foolish for any medical service to hire her. She is very cavalier and arrogant


4 posted on 03/10/2015 11:32:08 AM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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Oh look, its’ The Ebola Nurse! better keep your lawyers on speed dial, cause here comes trouble, the Drama Queen herself. Wonder if her Boyfriend in still playing Clyde to her Bonnie.


5 posted on 03/10/2015 11:36:23 AM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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To: wbill

Yeah, Africa would be a perfect fit.


6 posted on 03/10/2015 11:37:31 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Diogenesis
I think that it was politics, she (or someone) was trying to make LePage look bad in the middle of an election.

Didn't work. :-)

7 posted on 03/10/2015 11:39:18 AM PDT by wbill
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“I think it’s foolish for any medical service to hire her. She is very cavalier and arrogant”

I certainly wouldn’t want this person attending to me and If I was being taken to the hospital she worked in in an emergency I would request being taken elsewhere, even if was further away.


8 posted on 03/10/2015 11:40:39 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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Hickox, a Texas native, told me in an email that she’s moving to Oregon to take a job with a large health care system.

Defy an quarantine order and still fine gainful employment in the healthcare industry.

I think that's worse than merely refusing to get a vaccine.

9 posted on 03/10/2015 11:45:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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Worthless pig.Oregon,she's all yours!
10 posted on 03/10/2015 11:51:10 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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I suppose we're paying for her contraceptives, too.

A Sandra Fluke wannabe.

11 posted on 03/10/2015 11:51:24 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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I suppose we're paying for her contraceptives, too.

/snark on

I doubt she needs them much. There's a pic at the article. Didn't want to paste it and scare away the FReepers.

/snark off

12 posted on 03/10/2015 11:58:42 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Diogenesis
She put so many people in jeopardy.

She did not put a single person in jeopardy.

13 posted on 03/10/2015 12:01:35 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Yes she did.


14 posted on 03/10/2015 12:06:48 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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Look at the way the news plays her up as some type of rebel. She “fought” and “defied” the quarantine. She’s not a rebel. She’s a self-centered idiot.


15 posted on 03/10/2015 12:07:05 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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I thought her 15 minutes were up?
16 posted on 03/10/2015 12:17:15 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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I live in Maine, and everyone I talked to last Fall was pissed off at Kaci the moonbat, including people in the medical field.

Good riddance.


17 posted on 03/10/2015 12:22:39 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Say no to amnesty, say no to treason.)
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To: Diogenesis
Yes she did.

How so? The Ebola virus is only contagious when the infected person exhibits symptoms. Hickox did not exhibit any symptoms, because she was not infected with the virus. How, exactly, did she put a single person in jeopardy?

18 posted on 03/10/2015 12:24:48 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
You can only say that in hindsight.

In the meantime, she DID put people in jeopardy. Isolation has ALWAYS been the primary tool for Ebola

19 posted on 03/10/2015 12:26:59 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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“Hickox,...in an email (noted), that she’s moving to Oregon...”

Well at least as a new resident of the State of Oregon she can always off herself legally via the state's euthanasia laws.

20 posted on 03/10/2015 12:27:01 PM PDT by Towed_Jumper (There were no muslims on the Mayflower)
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