Posted on 10/23/2015 8:31:54 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
Hickox is a selflsh leftist who had no regard for the people she could possibly infect. I have no problem with Christie on this.
I didn't say that, and you know it. Stop lying.
Of course Ebola is dangerous. But it's also not transmittable until after symptoms develop. So (as every infectious disease control group agrees), there is no scientific justification for a blanket quarantine of anyone who has treated Ebola patients.
You’re ignoring the fact that Hickox is a selfish leftist that only cares for her self-aggrandizement.
No. If someone has been around Ebola patients and exhibits flu-like symptoms, get them to a hospital isolation unit. Now.
But if someone has been around Ebola patients and exhibits NO symptoms whatsoever, then continue to monitor them, but there is no need for a quarantine.
IMO this is entirely political and designed to hurt Christie.
“Except there is no public health justification to quarantine someone who has neither tested positive nor is showing any symptoms of Ebola.”
Ever heard of Ebola’s incubation period?
Oh, yes, I agree that Hickox is a selfish leftist. And her flouting of the voluntary, home-based quarantine in Maine was a selfish act.
But that doesn't mean that Christie's initial quarantine was valid. Hickox may be a selfish leftist who only cares for her own self-aggrandizement. But Christie is a selfish statist, who only cares for his self-aggrandizement.
She tried to sabotage LePage too after she left NJ in 2014
This nurse quarantined by Christie and the nurse in Maine are the same person.
The nurses I know here in Maine didn’t like her, either.
Incubation period is 2 to 21 days.
Those non-contact thermometers are notoriously inaccurate. When her temperature was taken with an actual thermometer, it was normal (and never again became elevated during the 21-day potential incubation period)
She was engineered by the left to make them look heartless. Thankfully, it didn’t work.
This nurse should have remained in quarentine until she was proved to be free of the Ebola Virus.
I didn’t like the idea of shipping these Ebola patients to the U.S. For treatment of a non-native disease.If that Ebola ever got into the environment here it would have been a catastrophe.
Maybe that’s why that idiot who resides in the White House allowed them to be brought here.
Yes, it can lay dormant. IIRC, the doctor here who was ‘cured’ of Ebola came up with it in his eye recently. Public health, like everything the Left pretends to care about, is not their sacred cow anymore. Leftists care only about themselves and how they can punish those that disagree with anything a Leftist says/does.
Less strict than a quarantine but still restrictive. Banned from flying, for example. Mandatory direct monitoring, with readings taken twice a day.
So you need to twist on it, leftist.
The nurse and her antics while in Maine actually helped conservative Gov. Paul LePage in his re-election bid.
The governor wanted her to stay at her home in northern Maine for two or three weeks, and instead, she was riding her bicycle around other people in public.
She and the governor exchanged words with each other through the media, and most people sided with Gov. LePage.
It all back-fired on nurse Ratchet and her liberal supporters.
All reasonable restrictions, of course. It's the unnecessary mandatory quarantine I have a problem with. Christie's not a doctor, and certainly not an infectious disease expert, so I don't like it when he, using his power as governor, imposes a mandatory quarantine of someone who does not need to be quarantined. I view it as a limited government issue (not that Christie has ever respected limited government, of course).
Unnecessary?
Possibly exposing the population to Ebola because her feelings were hurt is just as bad as people knowingly spreading other diseases.
She was exposed to Ebola, then fought quarantine like a stuck up petulant entitlement princess!
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