Nurse Kaci Hickox says she won't obey Maine's Ebola quarantine: I won't be "bullied by politicians"

today.com ^ | 10-29-2014 | Eun Kyung Kim

[servo1969]

Nurse Kaci Hickox — who remains symptom-free after spending three days in a New Jersey isolation tent after flying home from Ebola-stricken West Africa — remains under quarantine at home in Maine, but for only another day, she tells TODAY's Matt Lauer.

“I don’t plan on sticking to the guidelines. I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me, even though I am in perfectly good health and feeling strong and have been this entire time completely symptom free,” said Hickox, who wouldn’t emerge from Maine’s 21-day voluntary quarantine until Nov. 10.

“I truly believe this policy is not scientifically nor constitutionally just, and so I’m not going to sit around and be bullied around by politicians and be forced to stay in my home when I am not a risk to the American public.”

Hickox, who pointed out that top health officials believe a quarantine is unnecessary unless someone develops symptoms, also said:

• She will pursue legal action if Maine forces her into continued isolation: “If the restrictions placed on me by the state of Maine are not lifted by Thursday morning, I will go to court to fight for my freedom.”
  
  
• She plans to return to Africa to help Ebola patients: "My work in Sierra Leone for four weeks was amazing and I feel privileged to have been able to fight this battle and I do plan on going back. It’s not just will I, it’s more of a when.”
  
  
• State officials should maintain health guidelines but New Jersey officials demonstrated a lack of scientific rationale: Hickox said policies need to be based on evidence, but what she saw at Newark airport showed no such basis. "I saw complete disorganization. I saw no leadership, and if you’re going to put a policy like that in place, that impedes on my civil rights, then you need to have the administrative details worked out before you start detaining me in an airport for no reason."

[servo1969]

Hi, I'm Kaci Hickox and I guarantee you with 100% confidence that I don't have Ebola.
In fact, I'm willing to bet your life on it.
F- you very much.

[2ndDivisionVet]

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[frithguild]

[DoughtyOne]

And knowing how things go these days, she’ll get away with it.

[trisham]

She’s a sociopath.

[Jane Long]

Yikes....those are freaky Sharpie® eyebrows.

[SteveH]

coyote ugly. please get me a chainsaw. i was drunk last night...

[trisham]

It’s disgusting.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I hope some state judge intervenes and slaps her with an involuntary quarantine order. She needs to spend a month in a clean room, with a cop or two outside the locked door.

And, if her lawyer goes in there with her, he/she will be advised that they get to spend the quarantine with her.

[GreyFriar]

I wonder if she is related to Debbie Wasserman-Schultz? She looks like kin to me.

[servo1969]

I did search but I forgot the :
so nothing came up.

[Rusty0604]

I wouldn’t wish Ebola on anyone, but if I did...

[fieldmarshaldj]

How can you trust someone that doesn’t trust their own eyebrows ?

[Ann Archy]

Laws are for Republicans....not look alike DSW like me!!!

[SkyDancer]

And if you go and infect someone then .....

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Wouldn't it be funny if the good little Democrat died of Ebola next week?

Other than the one-woman epidemic she would cause, I mean.

[Ann Archy]

I thought it was Typhoid Annie!!!

[Scooter100]

I wonder how many friends dropped by for her Welcome Home Party?

[fatnotlazy]

“She plans to return to Africa to help Ebola patients.”

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Fine. She ought to leave now and not come back.

Selfish pig.

[Yardstick]

You’d think a leftie would be more willing to sacrifice for the collective good.