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***It is arbitrary when Chris Christie and Andy Cuomo decide to quarantine people with no symptoms.***

When Cuomo and Christie put the measures in place, they were dealing with a doctor who had arrived days earlier, had gone all over NYC via public transportation, and then came down with Ebola within a day of his travels. So the guidelines were not arbitrary by any means. It was specific for healthcare workers coming back from the Ebola hot zone.

***Her temp dropped to 98.6 and they kept her in quarantine.***

By that point in time, they already had a blood sample to test for Ebola. They had to wait for the results, just like you wait at any hospital before being released. That seems to take at least 12 hours to test. If they had released her before getting the results, and she tested positive, then there would be hell to pay for that error, just like what happened at Texas Presbyterian when they sent Duncan home early. Furthermore, in an abundance of caution, they performed a second Ebola test, which was also negative.

I’m not sure I understand why you think what was being done on behalf of all citizens was an over stretch of authority. This nurse did not have her civil rights violated, by any stretch of the imagination. I can’t, for the life of me, understand why she would think anything is wrong with these safety protocols, especially given where she had come from.

Our country is already having a lot of problems. Do you think we should add to it by not screening health care workers coming in from the hot zone? Didn’t we learn anything from Duncan’s case, or Nina Pham’s case, or Amber Vinson’s case, or Dr. Spencer’s case??

All of this Ebola business is an ongoing learning experience for our health professionals, and local, state, and federal entities. I want us to learn from mistakes, even it inconveniences a nurse who wants to pitch a hissy fit. She should be ashamed of her behavior.