But the tent was unnecessary. If you are going to quarantine an asymptomatic person, there is really no reason not to do so from home. Make it a mandatory quarantine, subject to random home visits (to prevent the person from breaking quarantine), but there's no need to keep her in a hospital far from her home, tent or no tent.
She may have been a showboat, prima donna and drama queen, but her quarantine was handled poorly by New Jersey, and I think a lot of people in her situation would have been justifiably angry.
“home quarantine” honor system hasn’t worked. For “home quarantine” to work requires armed guards. Of course this will make their heads explode.
We have had people in the tri-city area break quarantine and then come down with Ebola, ok? This is a congested area and it’s an overwhelmed airport.
This woman wrote a ridiculously subjective account, describing unknown people as “smug” - and cruel and God knows what else. I’ve seen all the photos (including the smiling selfie) of her Dachau-like environment. It looked perfectly ok to me. And the stupid idea that New Jersey folk should be grateful, polite and kind to her! What an idiot.
Now I just found out she was only one month in Africa - from her account I thought she was there for at least two years. Albert Schweitzer she’s not!
She was not asymptomatic when she was put in quarantine, as I understand it. She had a fever, though I do not know what it was. She had just finished a stint caring for Ebola patients. She needed to be quarantined until her test results came back. She also needed to have a mode of private transportation to her home, which she had not set up before her quarantine.
She started belly-aching the minute she was quarantined, but her fever and where she arrived from, and what she did while there, was what put that quarantine in place.
It’s true that tent living isn’t for everyone, but this was a precaution put in place, for her safety as well as others...many others! She hired a lawyer from her iphone, so her accommodations couldn’t have been too terrible. She wrote a blog while she was there. For goodness sakes, she was FINE to be in a tent for a day or two till her Ebola results came back.
Instead of being grateful that she’s come back to a place where she’s not surrounded by Ebola, she bitches about having to use a portable toilet, and having to be quarantined. It was a safety precaution, for goodness sakes! You’d think that if she was truly a caring person, she would want to quarantine herself, but no, she doesn’t want the inconvenience.
In case you are interested, here’s a link to an article that has a photo of her in the isolation tent. http://shopatmain.com/ao/news/2014/10/27/Quarantined%20Ebola%20Nurse%20Kaci%20Hickox%20to%20Be%20Released%20by%20New%20Jersey.htm
I think it’s equipped pretty nicely! That cot bed looks pretty comfortable! I wonder if the people in West Africa have accommodations that are this clean.