I agree — these are extraordinary circumstances, and an abundance of caution is called for.
However, it still smells like blame-shifting to me. The CDC, the Hospital, and anyone else responsible for the protocols that are supposed to keep health-care workers (and the rest of us) safe — they all blew it. Now, they’re trying to lay the blame on someone who they failed to protect.
Perhaps the nurse was culpable — perhaps she lost all sense of reason, because she really wanted to get to that wedding. I doubt that — who wants to gamble with the lives of their family and friends? More likely (IMHO) she was thinking that she was safe, because she did what the CDC and the Hospital medical staff told her to do.
I was thinking that whoever this nurse was, she may have had an abundance of trust in the wisdom of the governing officials. It is sad. I read a couple of books on the influenza pandemic of 1918 several years ago. So many unwise choices were made by officials at that time. Communities which took the threat seriously and took what might be called drastic actions today, were spared. How many people her age have much knowledge of that pandemic and its devastation?
This whole burgeoning episode reminds me of a cult movie called Idiocracy, which is often credited as more terrifying prophesy than comedy. In the movie, our nations collective intelligence has collapsed as a result of the intelligent citizens self-limiting their own breeding, while the idiots kept banging out the kids by the bushel. End result is a nation of idiots making the dumbest decisions possible. As a cherry on top - the president is a black man lol.