Posted on 10/29/2014 1:11:58 PM PDT by dennisw
Maine Gov. Paul LePage has sent state law enforcement to the home of nurse Kaci Hickox, USA Today reported Wednesday.
Earlier Wednesday, LePage said he would seek out the support of state police to keep the nurse, who recently returned to the United States from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, in isolation. According to USA Today, state police cars are now stationed outside Hickox's home. ___________
Kaci Hickox told NBC's "Today" show and ABC's "Good Morning America" that she was abiding by the state's voluntary quarantine by having no contact with people Tuesday and Wednesday. But she said she will defy the state if the policy isn't changed by Thursday.
"I don't plan on sticking to the guidelines," Hickox said on "Today." ''I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me even though I am in perfectly good health."
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how long before the cops have to be quarantined?
“Typhoid Mary” was eventually jailed, not sure but I seem to recall it was for the rest of her life. She was a carrier but never developed the disease, she just gave it to others. Strange.
I think it was in New York City around the turn of the century?
Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Ebola frightens me. I'm on the "front line", as it were, more so than almost any of you. if it gets loose in this country, people I work with every day are going to die. But irrational, unproven fear cannot trump one's constitutional rights. If ebola is shown to be contagious when the patient is asymptomatic, then things would be different. That is not the case.
I think she lived on a small island off the Bronx?
Shep Smith was crucifying LePage over this!!!
Barky says the soldiers returning from W. Africa will be kept in 21 day quarantine “because they have to take orders.” Princess Nurse, but for the governors, could have run free.
Meanwhile, the talking point purveyors say their “policy” du jour is based on the science.
I’m sorry, I don’t accept the “lack of a threat” explanation.
Given the state of medicine and science in west africa, the findings are not reassuring and not a guarantee. Can you cite through studies conducted on the ground through the sea of high infection. Can you guarantee me with your financial support that no one who is not symptomatic is infectious?
The president has let the virus into the country and continues to leave the door open.
The CDC and the president have lied several times.
The people being exposed are not following protocol when returning home.
So excuse me if I don’t buy your position.
I don't think her linkedin page showed anything about her being a "democratic operative." And, in this day & age, most people who become public figures overnight will usually pull down their facebook/twitter/linkedin pages.
Typhoid Mary tried this and ended up locked up for 23+ years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_Mary
Wiki excerpt:
Release, name-change and second quarantine (1915–1938)
Upon her release, Mallon was given a job as a laundress, which paid less than cooking. She soon changed her name to “Mary Brown”, and returned to her old occupation. For the next five years, she worked in a number of kitchens; wherever she worked, there were outbreaks of typhoid. However, she changed jobs frequently, and Soper was unable to find her.
In 1915, Mallon started another major outbreak, this time at Sloane Hospital for Women in New York City. Twenty-five people were infected and two died. She again left, but the police were able to find and arrest her when she brought food to a friend on Long Island.
This is 21 days of home confinement. Not a prison term. Against a disease we know little about, except that it kill 80% of the infected, that is still evolving (rapidly, like every other micro-organism), and developing new ways to kill people. While she has rights, the community around her also has the right to not be killed by her indifference to the possibility that she may be infectious. This isn't superstition or hysteria. The anti-quarantine people are engaging in obscurantism. The reality about Ebola is that we don't know what we don't know, which is how the doctors got infected in the first place. The bug is evolving.
It was a long time ago when people were serious about controlling the spread of diseases.
Yup. She served food to people and killed them with typhoid. She had been quarantined but lawyers and public sympathy got her out of confinement.
She had agreed to “self quarantine” and not sell or serve food to people. She was caught breaking her quarantine, knowing she would be killing people. People were pissed. Locked up the rest of her life.
This nurse seems to have a similar attitude.
Let me get this straight.
The Maine State Police are on the scene to enforce her VOLUNTARY quarantine?
Wow! Newspeak really HAS taken over the English language.
Exactly. Truth is she never had any temperature at the airport. It was a planned scheme in order to cause the chaos and another screw you to the American people. Notice this afternoon the thing in the WH came out to chastize the American people and say we are not for science. Ugh, I hate them.
These sleazy _itches all look alike too. Looking at this sleazebag makes me want to puke and I don’t have Ebola.
We, including the CDC and most doctors do not know all they need to know about Ebola. You speak as though it is settled. Nobody can prove that.
That is reality.
“we need to exercise caution whenever we cheer the state infringing on anyone’s rights”. You are correct but public health is pretty close to where I draw the line. A twenty-one day quarantine is not a prison sentence. I would be more inclined to see this as a legitimate civil rights issue if the nurse had not clearly gone into serious grandstanding mode.
That’s what I recall.
Well, people have to work but they don’t have to present a danger to the public. I am sure she had room and board at least to offset her loss of freedom.
Tragic case for her, worse for the victims. Life is hard. People need to choose. They chose to protect people.
I agree with you.
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