Posted on 10/30/2014 10:45:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Once portrayed in the press as the face of noble resistance to Gov. Chris Christie’s draconian policy of consigning health care workers who were potentially exposed to Ebola in West Africa to a mandatory quarantine, nurse Kaci Hickox is rapidly expending the media’s politically-motivated goodwill.
While it is fair to say that most members of the medical community believe that Hickox is not a threat to those around her – she has tested negative for the disease, reports that she is feeling fine, and would not be contagious at this stage even if she were infected – some medical professionals are not entirely positive that Ebola cannot be spread by asymptomatic individuals. It is out of an abundance of caution that a number of states, including Hickox’s home state of Maine, have requested that at-risk individuals abide by a voluntary in-home quarantine.
Hickox is not playing a long. The media darling who threatened to sue the state of New Jersey for violating her constitutional rights is now insisting that she will not self-isolate. On Thursday, Hickox left her house for a bike ride with her boyfriend.
“Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend stepped out of their home Thursday morning and rode away on bicycles, followed by state police who were monitoring her movements and public interactions,” the Associated Press reported. “Police couldn’t detain her without a court order signed by a judge.”
Hickox contends there’s no need for quarantine because she’s showing no symptoms. She’s also tested negative for the deadly disease.
State officials were going to court in an effort to detain Hickox for the remainder of the 21-day incubation period for Ebola that ends on Nov. 10.
It was the second time Hickox broke quarantine.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Goveronor LePage has backed down from mandatory quarantine - he says he’s willing to follow CDC guidelines.
http://www.pressherald.com/2014/10/30/kaci-hickox-and-boyfriend-leave-home-on-bikes/
No better example of how progressives (and their lawyers) threaten our lives.
If not this outbreak, one day there will be a lethal epidemic and our government will be completely hamstrung until its too late.
If anyone stepped up to do something about it, her bought and paid for government lawyer would have them behind bars and she’d have something else to whine about.
I understand the neighbors aren’t too happy to have her around. It’s possible that one of them could become enraged enough to take action on his own. And I’m not talking about a court proceeding.
She doesn’t want to be inconvenienced by being quarantined. So every one in the country may have to be inconvenienced by having Obola because of this brain dead twit.
I’m free of germs...my sh!t don’t stink....and all you little people better thank me for what I’ve done for humanity!
SSS would be appropriate
She is daring the gods of karma and irony.
My mother, my aunt and my sister were all RNs. None of them would have ever behaved like this.
So, if she actually does develop Ebola, what then?............................
The histrionic nurse who refused to obey the Ebola quarantine is another Sandra Fluke, a publicity seeker sociopath that should be put in jail rather than in quarantine.
This nurse is a typical democratic spoiled brat that in pursuit of his political agenda she puts in grave danger the health of her family and neighbors. If she had arrived in NY, where the governor is Democrat, instead of NJ, probably she would have not mounted such a disgraceful show.
While Obama disregards the Ebola menace, the Ebola panic spreads at the Defense Department.
Soldiers returning home from Ebola infested African countries are quarantine 21 days in Italy before entering U.S.
430 doctors and nurses died killed by the disease while treating Ebola patients in Africa...
Some African countries put 42 days in quarantine those coming from Ebola countries.
Why are health care workers coming from Ebola countries not forced to be at least 21 days in quarantine when they return to U.S.A. for the protection of their own families and the country?
TAKES ONE’S BREATH AWAY....:
This is mind boggling!!! Don’t you think its about time Pee Wee developed a PLAN??? This is a time for LEADERSHIP, not his constant waffling. Is it time to panic? Of course not. The time to panic is when it is too late to develop a consistent plan of action. What is the incubation time for STUPIDITY?
Lewiston Idaho veterinarian’s Letter to the Editor re: Ebola, Nails it!
The present Ebola crisis in the world is frightening. I have submitted the following letter to the editor of the Lewiston Morning Tribune:
Editor, Lewiston Morning Tribune:
If I wish to import a horse into the United States from Liberia or any African country other than Morocco, the horse needs to undergo a 60 day quarantine period at a USDA approved quarantine facility prior to mingling with the general population of horses in this country. Africa has a disease called African Horse Sickness that does not exist in the US; this is the way we have kept it out of this country.
African Horse Sickness does not cause disease in people, only horses; our government has determined that it would be devastating to the US horse industry if it were to come here.
The United States (and virtually all other countries) require a myriad of tests and often quarantine prior to bringing in a foreign animal.
I can’t legally cross state lines in the United States with a horse or cow without a health certificate signed by a USDA accredited veterinarian stating that the animal has been inspected and found free of infectious disease. In most cases blood tests are also required. In fact I can’t legally cross the Snake River and ride my horse in Idaho without a health certificate and a negative blood test for Equine Infectious Anemia.
I’m not complaining; the United States of America, the States of Idaho and Washington as well as the other 48 states take the health of our livestock very seriously, and we have a very good record at keeping foreign animal diseases out of our country. I am happy to do my part to maintain biosecurity in our animal population.
If I am a resident of Liberia incubating Ebola, to enter the United States all I need to do is present a valid visa, and lie when asked if I have been exposed to Ebola. Within hours (no quarantine required) I can be walking the streets of any city in the United States.
I feel very fortunate to live in a country that values our animals so highly.
David A. Rustebakke, DVM
Oct 29, 2014
I guess if it was Fergusin and she were black, they'd be busing folks in...signs and all..."Go Kaci"!!
Selfish Biatch!
She’s a flaming liberal who works for the CDC and her lawyer went to the White House Correspondence dinner, all a bunch of flaming libtards who think the laws don’t apply to them..if I were in Maine I would do the shoot on site technique if I saw her coming my way
That’s what Im saying..as Montgomery Burns said on The Simpsons “Release The Hounds” let the townspeople take care of Kaci if you know what I mean
"It's all about me and what I want. Don't like it? You can go suck muddy ditch water." I wonder where the EBOLA CZAR IS....
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