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Troops in Tents fighting Ebola Don't See Tents As'Inhumane', Nurse Hickox
Bloggers and Personal ^ | 29 Oct 14 | Xzins

Posted on 10/29/2014 8:12:29 AM PDT by xzins

Isn't it absurd when rhetoric goes over the top. So it is with Nurse Kaci Hickox who has made a name for herself with her claim that being in a tent is 'inhumane' treatment. She might be sure to mention that to ages of American troops from Valley Forge to Gettysburg to Liberia...and all wars and deployments in between. In fact, Ms. Hickox, we always found a tent to be a bit of a luxury. We didn't even consider the ground to be inhumane. We considered it part of the job. When one goes adventuring on these self-announced, sacrificial journeys, at some point in time one might actually come across...sacrifice.

So, we see major generals quarantined after Liberia, we see troops setting up tent cities, and we hear no complaints. To be clear, I'm sure there are complaints. Some of the most lovable stories and quotes about troops involve their complaints.

Puzzled over what to prepare for dinner one day after supply lines hadn't worked out, one enterprising cook mixed together lots of c-rations, put a pie crust over it and baked it. As troops worked their way through chow line, one young warrior eyeballs the cook and says, "Cookie what is it?" "It's pork pot pie," says the intrepid cook. "Well", says the soldier, "If you've got enough nerve to serve it, then I got enough to eat it."

We don't hear their belly-aching, but we do smile at those stories told later on down the road, and we love our troops for the hardships they endured on our behalf. Yet, unfortunately, we get to hear about Nurse Kaci Hickox 24/7 it seems. She's gonna sue. She's treated poorly. "It's inhumane!"

So Governor Chris Christie ships her to her mom in Maine. (There's a message in that, Nurse Hickox, if you're perceptive enough to see it.)

Now, Ma'am, answer me this. To insure safety, is it better to incinerate discarded ebola safety uniforms, or would you recycle them? Likewise, would it be easier and cheaper to burn down or sanitize an expensive, permanent building, or would it be easier to incinerate or sanitize a medical tent?

I remember the old Army GP mediums. Those who got to bunk in them, considered themselves lucky. They were so big that we could run an entire operations center out of one of them. .

So, Kaci, "Inhumane" is way over the top.

I'll buy inconvenient. I always thought, though, that inconvenience was assumed under the heading of "making a sacrifice."


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: ebola; hickox; liberia; quarantine; verucasalt
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1 posted on 10/29/2014 8:12:29 AM PDT by xzins
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Nurse Hickox is now threatening to sue her home state of Maine for “quarantining” her.


2 posted on 10/29/2014 8:15:16 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins

A clueless, mindless acolyte who doesn’t even have the sense to understand that she is more useful to Obama as Under-the-bus Road Kill, than someone actually worth preserving intact. Doesn’t even have enough sense to know when to STFU. Pitiful.


3 posted on 10/29/2014 8:19:40 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: xzins

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4 posted on 10/29/2014 8:23:22 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote
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To: Gaffer

She’s whiney and got shipped home to mommy.

What a role model


5 posted on 10/29/2014 8:24:01 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins
As a soldier, I volunteered to spend my time in a tent, even in sub-zero conditions with no heat for weeks on end. It was a known part of my job, and I actually enjoyed it if you must know.

The subject of an involuntary quarantine did not sign up for such treatment. What are the limits on state authority in these cases? I would say that based on contemporary norms, you provide a similar lifestyle to what that person would otherwise enjoy, and ensure they are paid if they miss work, and that they can't be fired due to the quarantine. Moreover, quarantine can only be imposed under specified conditions, which are typically showing symptoms of a known epidemic, with some means of due process. Since she is not showing symptoms, I'm not surprised she is challenging this in the courts- someone needs to. I understand the concern and desire to protect the public, but I don't think that any conservative wants a government who can throw you in a dank cell with no requirement to substantiate the charges for an indefinite period with no due process either. We ALWAYS need to think about the unintended consequences and how this can be misused by the left- we on the right have made this mistake far too many times when yielding our rights to government. I think it is good that this is going through the courts, personally.

6 posted on 10/29/2014 8:26:27 AM PDT by LambSlave
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I’d be willing to bet that her job at CDC as whatever sort of intelligence whatever she is supposed to be in the end becomes redundant and she’s out in the cold. Look for her in 6 months, to be politically whoring her self around like Sandra Fluke in an effort to continue her 15 minutes.


7 posted on 10/29/2014 8:27:26 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: xzins

If tents are legal for prisoners, why not for her?

Sheriff Arpaio, there is a nurse on line One who has a question about tents.


8 posted on 10/29/2014 8:28:27 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: LambSlave

I disagree. I think the ebola in Liberia is fairly well known. It’s not made up. It’s real.

So, quarantine is a reasonable measure. And a tent is not just a reasonable accommodation, but it’s also a logical place for a disease that requires eradication. Tents are easily destroyed.


9 posted on 10/29/2014 8:28:54 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: GladesGuru

Have you ever in your life considered putting our soldiers in tents to be inhumane? It’s almost laughable.


10 posted on 10/29/2014 8:30:00 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: LambSlave
Just now in breaking news:

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered all military personnel returning from Ebola response missions in West Africa to be kept in a 21-day quarantine. Hagel signed the order Wednesday morning, according to the Pentagon, accepting a recommendation from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

11 posted on 10/29/2014 8:31:50 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: GladesGuru

Quarantine liberal whacko nurses who have been exposed to Obolo.


12 posted on 10/29/2014 8:36:14 AM PDT by southland ( I have faith in the creator Republicans freed the slaves. psalms 37:4)
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To: LambSlave

Soldiers are usually cognizant of the dangers of being at, in or near combat zones. They get the knowledge sometimes from those who have gone there before. Real IEDs, real bullets, real grenades, real RPGs - whatever. Visible, audible or even surprise incursions that one can be on the look out for.

Here, our President and lackey Secretary have decided that exposure to some disease for which it took at least a month to experiment with re: ‘protocols’, and which has taken the lives of very many professional medical people there, is now a soldier’s duty to address. All because it is imperative that “The Obama” not look bad in the eyes of a world that barely even knows what toilet paper is for.

God help and bless them. They face evil of uncertainty of disease abroad - and from home, at the hands of their leader.


13 posted on 10/29/2014 8:38:09 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Hickox is a modern day Typhoid Mary.


14 posted on 10/29/2014 8:38:57 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want a Speaker who'll stick that pen and phone where no one but Reggie Love can find it!)
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To: xzins

Selfish c##t.


15 posted on 10/29/2014 8:40:45 AM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: xzins
Indeed.I would love to get 3 weeks time in seclusion.What an opportunity for quiet reflection.
16 posted on 10/29/2014 8:41:47 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

There needs to be a punch line:

What do you get when you mix Typhoid Mary, Sandra Fluke, and Kaci Hickox?

Or how about: “Sandra Fluke, Typhoid Mary, and Kaci Hickox walk into a bar....”


17 posted on 10/29/2014 8:43:07 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: LambSlave

Except that, in the case of Ebola, once you start showing symptoms, you’re contagious (and there’s a good possibility of being contagious even before you become definitively symptomatic). So in this case, the quarantine is to make sure that, if she becomes symptomatic, she’s isolated *before* she can come into contact with anyone else. It’s already a given that she was in an environment where exposure to the virus is possible, even likely, so the last thing anyone (including her) should want is for her to be wandering around in public potentially exposing anyone she encounters.

There’s a blog out there written by an ER doctor that addresses this far better than I could, and he’s been tracking the Hickox situation closely. You can find it at raconteurreport.blogspot.com (NB I have no connection with that blog or its author).


18 posted on 10/29/2014 8:50:55 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: xzins

Memo to the gullible sucker preparing to MARRY nurse Ratchet. “The way this heifer is acting NOW will only get WORSE when she has the dog collar on your neck. Run while you can.


19 posted on 10/29/2014 8:52:37 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: LambSlave

I say burn the witch : )


20 posted on 10/29/2014 8:59:02 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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