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Nurse defies Ebola quarantine in Maine, goes for bike ride as legal showdown looms
Fox News ^ | October 30, 2014

Posted on 10/30/2014 7:43:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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A Maine nurse back from treating Ebola patients in West Africa followed through on her vow to defy the state's "voluntary" quarantine on Thursday, leaving her home for a bike ride.

Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend stepped out of their home Thursday morning and rode away on mountain bikes, followed by state police cruiser.

There was no immediate comment from state health officials, who 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. Police were monitoring her movements but couldn't detain her without a court order signed by a judge.

The end of the 21-day period would be Nov. 10.

Hickox, accompanied by her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur, earlier met with the media late Wednesday in the driveway of her home in Fort Kent, and said she will not observe the quarantine directive. The nurse, who returned from Sierra Leone last week after working with Doctors Without Borders, said that she had made no progress in her attempts to negotiate an end to her quarantine with state officials.

If a judge grants the state request, then Hickox will appeal the decision on constitutional grounds, necessitating a hearing, Hickox attorney Norman Siegel said....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: ebola; kacihickox; maine; quarantine
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To: Slyfox

She could end up the co-campaign manager for Hillary...They might need that Obola vote...


61 posted on 10/30/2014 9:23:46 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: skeeter

That is kinda an oxymoron. I don’t know that one can be a leftist and NOT have a chip on their shoulder.


62 posted on 10/30/2014 9:24:57 AM PDT by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: Gumdrop

[[OTOH, if she is outside and with her boyfriend on a bike ride, I see no reason why this is a problem.]]

It is a problem because if they stop anywhere, and she sneezes on something, wipes gher mouth then touches something- leaves her sweat on a bench sopmehwere or somehow gets bodily fluids on spots where other people come along, those people then are at risk of contracting ebola- ebola from what I understand can live for quite sometime outside of the body and be a potential risk to others


63 posted on 10/30/2014 9:28:14 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As horrible as it sounds, REDACTED.


64 posted on 10/30/2014 9:28:59 AM PDT by Don W (To laugh, perhaps to dream...)
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To: The Great RJ

Would it be irony if the boyfriend gets Obola and dies, or just...too bad...


65 posted on 10/30/2014 9:29:43 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Make an example out of her, or else we will see this all the time.


66 posted on 10/30/2014 9:48:47 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: SeekAndFind

Que Donald Sutherland pic.


67 posted on 10/30/2014 9:53:27 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

She definitely needs to be tasered.
At the very least a judge should lock her and her boyfriend up in a jail for a year for placing people in danger.


68 posted on 10/30/2014 10:32:07 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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