Posted on 10/30/2014, 2:43:42 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
A Maine nurse back from treating Ebola patients in West Africa followed through on her vow to defy the state's "voluntary" quarantine on Thursday, leaving her home for a bike ride.
Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend stepped out of their home Thursday morning and rode away on mountain bikes, followed by state police cruiser.
There was no immediate comment from state health officials, who were going to court in an effort to detain Hickox for the remainder of the 21-day incubation period for Ebola that ends on Nov. 10. Police were monitoring her movements but couldn't detain her without a court order signed by a judge.
The end of the 21-day period would be Nov. 10.
Hickox, accompanied by her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur, earlier met with the media late Wednesday in the driveway of her home in Fort Kent, and said she will not observe the quarantine directive. The nurse, who returned from Sierra Leone last week after working with Doctors Without Borders, said that she had made no progress in her attempts to negotiate an end to her quarantine with state officials.
If a judge grants the state request, then Hickox will appeal the decision on constitutional grounds, necessitating a hearing, Hickox attorney Norman Siegel said....
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How can the government ban certain things that they deem a health risk and then allow Ebola into the country. It seems they have just canceled out protocol.
If she were truly a "caring health care worker," then she would be absolutely concerned about her potential to infect people here with the disease she is said to have helped treat in Africa.
Something is not right about this whole thing.
I would not wish such a thing on anyone, but I bet if she ends up coming down with the disease, her entire attitude will cahnge...or not. She may then want to blame the rest of us on her misfortune.
I do know this...state governments are absolutel right to demand a 21 day quarantine. And it should not bee self-administered. And that should only be applied to "learkers," from a system like the following:
My plan for isolating the Ebola outbreak:
1. Any US citizen working in West Africa (in any way) in any of the striken countries should have a mandatory 21-day quarantine imposed on them at a clean facility at the airport in that nation. Then, when they clear that, they should be flown back to the United States on specially chartered aircraft that bring only US citizens back here.
2. All commercial flights and shipping from those nations should be halted until the crisis is past.
3. No new travel visas should be approved or given to any individual from any of those nations until the crisis is past.
4. No current travel visa holders from any of those nations who want to come to the US should be allowed to do so. They should be stopped at those air ports and ports and informed thaat they cannot travel to the US until the crisis is past.
Everybody shout and warn each other — UNCLEAN, UNCLEAN !! when you see her.
There is no negative pejorative word bad enough to correctly describe this person’s arrogant brainlessness!
“If she pulled this stunt in Texas, the State Board Would pull her license and the cops would arrest and jail her.”
Honest question - were the doctors and nurses who treated Thomas Duncan or Nina Pham or Amber Vinson (while they were in TX) quarantined?
all I know is ...that I would hate to have this woman (ebola or no ebola) as my nurse
This woman will be a hero in due time. She will be on the talk shows and the leftist media will love her.
Put your trust in the Lord,
But your ass belongs to me!
In my opinion, she won whatever “diploma” she might have on a punchboard on her third try, at $1 a punch!
She’d just slither out of the sewer and head to the beach in Mexico.
She has lottsa’ people hating HER guts. I don’t think they’re too fond of the arrogant bastard in the white hut who seduced Crispy Creme into turning her loose on the populace, either. You can bet the farm that I consider them BOTH lower than whale $h!t.
who’s propaganda is worse, her’s or the government’s?
I thought we had a surgeon general? Remember the bearded guy with tobacco?
Is the government tougher on our own citizens & military versus a visa applicant?
She has a nursing degree from Univ of a Texas at Arlington, but she works as a statistician for the CDC. I imagine her bedside manner is like Nurse Ratchet’s.
She should have been quarantined before they let her fly back.
Greta already does love her....
What I had read about that weeks ago, was that they were allowed to be self-monitored and were allowed to take their own private transportation to and from work. They were told not to go to public places or to use public transportation. It was deemed by the CDC that this was permissible because of our health care system in regards to Ebola. We’ve had so few cases in this country, unlike West Africa. Health care workers from those places are considered to be in a higher risk group than our HCW here.
“Honest question - were the doctors and nurses who treated Thomas Duncan or Nina Pham or Amber Vinson (while they were in TX) quarantined?”
To the best of my knowledge no. However, at that time protocols and guidelines were not in place thanks to the political nature of the CDC. They are still political.
It was a quarantine situation of sorts. They could go to and from work in their own private vehicles, but were told not to go to public places or to use public transportation. They could get meals at work, and even their coworkers at the hospital snubbed them.
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