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.
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Send her to jail, and take her license away. She is pure trash.
Then she'll be a pariah hero. She'll be known as Ebola Kaci. And the state governments will point to her as an example the next time they want to quarantine someone.
And if she spreads it to others, then she'll be a monster. Her heroism will vanish in a monumental Oh sh*t moment. And states will quickly implement quarantines, and pressure will be on for travel bans like Austrailia's.
Narcissism on parade!
I'm beginning to think it should be called Doctors Without Ethics.
He's probably meeting with Stephanopolous to try to figure out how to label Republicans with a "War on Healthcare workers" and make it stick better than the "War on Women" did.
You have to kinda admire her ability to make the government look weak.
Crazy Democrat comes before Nurse
Th latest demo dishrag!
Have someone follow her around in a hazmat suit carrying a sign “stay back 100 feet - Danger! Ebola!”
The nurse who worked directly with Ebola patients does not need to be quarantined
The military who did not come anywhere near Ebola patients do need to be quarantined
Makes sense to me.
Well said
My mom was a nurse ( my dad a doc) and my daughter is a nurse. You are correct using the quotation marks. This is NO nurse. She is a spoiled little whiny brat from red diaper doper baby parents. She should have her license lifted
I don't know about her license bu she is definately violating the traditions and spirit of her profession.
Florence Nightingale Pledge
"I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my
profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer
any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence
all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling."
With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
I am beginning to wonder if this is all a set up. With her background as a statistician and writer, was she ever near any Ebola patients or even the potential for exposure; or is this all a stunt backed by the CDC and the rest of the Obama functionaries managing the spin to try a high profile legal challenge that would invalidate the states’ abilities to impose quarantines without Federal approval?
Easy fix. Just make civilly liable for all damages and bills. She will run to the nearest tent.
In 2012 we had Sandra Fluke, The Free Rubbers Queen."
In 2014 we have Kaci Hickox, The Ebola Plague Queen."
Oops...forgot the title above...she was trained as an intelligence officer by the CDC
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