Posted on 10/28/2014 10:23:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Over the weekend, a strange and revealing episode of political theater surfaced. An American nurse named Kaci Hickox, who had just returned to the United States from West Africa where she had been working with Doctors Without Borders to help patients afflicted with Ebola, was quarantined against her will in a tent inside a Newark hospital. To public-health officials, this seemed an extreme overreaction: There was no reason to think that Hickox, who was completely healthy, had Ebola, and soon she began to protest the absurdity and inhumanity of her circumstances. Among other indignities, she was provided no shower.
That Hickox was confined in this manner was a direct consequence of a policy of mandatory 21-day confinement for any health-care worker returning from the Ebola zone that was made on Friday by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. (That same day, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had made a similar announcement.) Over the course of the weekend, virtually the entire public-health and political Establishment turned against Christie and Cuomo. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, appeared on five Sunday shows to point out that there was no scientific basis for the quarantine and that it was socially counterproductive; Obama administration officials were reported to be working feverishly to get Christie and Cuomo to reverse the policies; local public-health officials were said to be furious that they hadn't been consulted, that the governors had gone over their heads.
The outcry was so vigorous that both governors eventually changed their policies; today, Hickox was given permission to go home to Maine. Nevertheless a mystery lingers. Christie is an unusually talented politician, and both he and Cuomo are exceptionally accomplished. Why did both men so badly misread this? What were they thinking?
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But Andrew Cuomo isn’t? OK.
The left IS truly insane. You avoid an crisis by being proactive. Or you do what the Feds do and roll the dice. Pardon my french, but screw that.
There should be more panic.
If we aren’t going to quarantine travelers leaving those countries at the start of the trip, they should be quarantined at the end of the trip. At least long enough to do a blood test and reduce the odds that they are infected. And they should be quarantined at home for the duration of the 21 days.
CDC’s insistence on non-quarantines are going to get people killed. They already had two near misses with the nurses in Dallas.
I noticed that too. I also notice that none of these people who oppose mandatory quarantines, ever offer to house the potentially infected in their own homes or with their own families.
I don’t give any credence to people who wouldn’t do the things they want to force the rest of us to do, which encompasses the whole of the leftist elite.
I think someone should drink some ipicack (sp?) and go into their offices and barf everywhere. Now THAT is comedy.
all Ebola patients and exposees should be placed in manhattan where they understand these things.
Everything is politicized in this country. Even diseases. This is insanity.
NY Magazine better pray that nothing happens. With Africa exploding with it; we all better pray.
Maybe he’s trying to PREVENT an Ebola panic.
I agree, and Christie has more guts than most of the governors, since I don’t see but two others stepping up to the plate for quarantines, yet the Military intends to quarantine returning soldiers who dealt with Ebola.
Typical Alinsky leftist tactic labeling common sense leadership as “panic” because it interferes with that fundamental transformation of America.
This woman was running a low-grade fever.
The last time a nurse for an Ebola patient wasn’t quarantined for a low-grade fever, she turned out to have Ebola.... which caused a great inconvenience to the other people she came into contact with - on planes, etc. - who had to self-quarantine and/or worry about Ebola, too.
It makes sense to quarantine, just in case.
Taking precautions is not a panic. It’s sensisble and logical. Why else are all the African countries banning anyone from the Ebola countries? Believe me if there is a mass outbreak in the U.S. the left will be the most panicked people of all. As always they’ll blame everything on somebody else.
Nobody gutted this fish, and it's stinking real bad.
RE: So now the Ebola Czar writes for the news reporting services?
Yep, that was what came to my mind first. Ron Klaine is a PR master and THAT is why he was hired in the first place.
Now what is it about Obama's Ebola policies that make sense?
Gov. Christie is not "panicking", he is taking some common sense precautions to ensure the safety of the other citizens of NJ. I hate the press.
And, I would like to point out that it seems that the doctors who come back, from Africa, have a serious disregard for the health of their fellow citizens, as they are always whining and complaining about having to take precautions. If they would self-quarantine, this wouldn't happen. But, they seem to think they should be able to wander about freely. The nurse from Dallas did it, these two doctors have done it. What is up with that?
Christy is more right than people think, and many misunderstood the Walker-Christy exchange as explained in this article.
http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2014/10/28/the-strategy-behind-the-chris-christiescott-walker-phony-war/
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