Posted on 04/11/2025 6:04:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Other people had to quarantine, but she thought she was special.
I stopped reading when it mentioned climate change.🙄
That has nothing to do with the point of my comment, which was the idiocy of her opining that only health care professional grounded in science should be in charge of making decisions when it was a State Judge who rejected attempts to restrict her movements, saying she posed no threat..
She did quarantine and was cleared.
“Hickox, 33, a volunteer nurse with Doctors Without Borders, had been stopped at Newark Liberty International Airport when she returned to the United States on October 24, 2014. She was quarantined in a tent outside a New Jersey hospital for three days, even though she had no symptoms of Ebola. New Jersey agreed to let her go home to Fort Kent, Maine, a small logging town near the Canadian border.”
She had a fever when she landed in Newark. She tested negative for Ebola, but it can take time for the virus to be detected. She was supposed to quarantine for 21 days. After three days at a NJ hospital, she was sent to Maine where she was supposed to finish her quarantine at her home. But, when she got home, she refused to quarantine or stay away from other people.
It was a circus created by politicians, including Christie.
She had a fever when she first landed in Newark. She tested negative for Ebola, but an early test is no guarantee that someone doesn’t have the illness. She was supposed to stay in quarantine for 21 days. She spent three days in NJ, and then she was driven to Maine which also had a 21-day quarantine. She was expected to spend the remainder of her quarantine at home in Maine, but she refused and filed a lawsuit. A judge ruled she did not have to quarantine, but he ordered that she must be monitored.
See my post #28 above. I never complained when I was isolated for a suspected illness and then tested negative for it. Many people are isolated after they are exposed to an illness. This woman is a nurse. No doubt she at times insisted patients stay in isolation. When it was her turn, she had a meltdown. She was lucky it turned out she wasn’t ill, and so was everyone else.
The first case of Ebola in NYC was a doctor who’d returned from West Africa. He traveled around the city, and he never had any symptoms - until he did. Then, he and everyone in close contact with him had to be quarantined: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/doctor-who-worked-in-africa-first-ebola-case-in-new-york-city-idUSKCN0ID0FC/
She didn’t have a fever, the oral thermometer proved that, she had zero symptoms and tested twice a day, she was not doing anything outlandish.
To: Darksheare
“”””Kaci Hickox went out of her way to try and spread it””””
Not really.
12 posted on 4/11/2025, 7:17:12 PM by ansel12
The forehead thermometer showed a fever at the airport. She’d just returned from treating patients with Ebola. She should have stayed in isolation voluntarily.
The infrared showed a slight elevation and she said she was just flushed so they actually took her temperature and she had no fever and then she went into into quarantine.
But she’d just returned from taking care of patients with Ebola. She should’ve wanted to quarantine as a precautionary measure. The doctor in NYC was sure he didn’t have it, either, but he did.
She did quarantine, and the new quarantine guideline was issued the day she arrived and she was going to be the first, she had returned from there and was an expert with Ebola herself, as your doctor described her, “no one has recognized the fact that she’s an EIS [Epidemic Intelligence Service] expert, she’s a CDC-trained fellow … one of the most well educated people you can get in public health and at the same time, she’s someone who’s committed her life to responding. So whether or not you agree with what she said, really what she stands for is all in line with sound public health principles.”
As you keep obsessing over this do you really agree with the statement that she “””went out of her way to try and spread it”””?
I’m not obsessed with that case. I was responding to another freeper. Then, when you posted to me, I started responding to your posts.
I never said she “went out of her way to try and spread it.” I said she refused to quarantine.
You and I are never going to see eye to eye on this case. But that’s okay. No one here agrees on everything.
I might have agreed with you, if I hadn’t been placed in isolation myself a few years before Ebola. As I posted earlier, I once was isolated while waiting for negative test results. One doctor said, “We know you don’t have [the illness],” but they were required to take precautions. I understood. I didn’t complain or start talking about my constitutional rights. That’s why I see the story differently.
Yes, I pointed out to you that she had quarantined, and then you started with the fake fever business.
You seem pretty obsessed with it.
I’m not the one who’s obsessed. :-)
If you hadn’t posted to me, I would’ve forgotten about this thread.
I already explained she was supposed to quarantine for a longer period. That’s a fact.
I also said she tested with a fever at the airport. That’s a fact.
But we don’t have to agree. Have a good night.
You and that fever thing, she didn’t have a fever, that alone shows your obsession.
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