White House Presses States to Reverse Ebola Quarantine

New York Times ^ | October 26, 2014 | MARC SANTORA and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

[reaganaut1]

The Obama administration has been pushing the governors of New York and New Jersey to reverse their decision ordering all medical workers returning from West Africa who had contact with Ebola patients to be quarantined, an administration official said.

But on Sunday both governors, Andrew M. Cuomo of New York and Chris Christie of New Jersey, stood by their decision, saying that the federal guidelines did not go far enough.

At the same time, the first person to be forced into isolation under the new protocols, Kaci Hickox, a nurse returning from Sierra Leone, planned to mount a legal challenge to the quarantine order. Despite having no symptoms, she has been kept under quarantine at a hospital in New Jersey, where she has been confined to a tent equipped with a portable toilet and no shower. On Sunday, she spoke to CNN about the way she has been treated, describing it as “inhumane.”

A nurse who had worked with Ebola patients in West Africa was placed under quarantine at University Hospital shortly after she landed at Newark Liberty International Airport on Friday.

The rapidly escalating events played out both privately, in intense negotiations and phone calls between federal and state officials, as well as publicly in the nurse’s pointed criticism of the New Jersey governor.

But in that time, two more states – Illinois and Florida – announced that they were instituting similar policies.

Federal officials made it clear that they do not agree with the governors about the need or effectiveness of a total quarantine for health care workers, though they were careful not to directly criticize the governors themselves.

[JohnBrowdie]

I’ve been having this conversation with what liberals that are left in the world that still speak to me. those that aren’t as confused as I am by the obamites creepy and inexplicable inaction on ebola tell me that they are “fighting the fear and the stigma that are associated with Ebola”.

that’s the closest thing I’ve gotten to an explanation . . . as though anyone ever died of stigma.

[SpinnerWebb]

Any excuse to declare martial law and do away with the elections. The more people that die, the better, because the more scared the sheep are, the more likely they are to follow.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Just seen on another site: EBOLA = Evil Barack Obama Loathes America.

[Liz]

Did anyone check the all-you-can-eat buffets?