Posted on 10/25/2014 12:25:40 PM PDT by knak
A nurse who tested negative for the Ebola virus but remained under a 21-day quarantine in a Newark hospital on Saturday is angry and frustrated with how she was treated when she returned to the United States from West Africa.
A first-person account by the nurse, Kaci Hickox, of what happened when she landed at Newark Liberty International Airport about 1 p.m. Friday was published on Saturday on the website of The Dallas Morning News.
Ms. Hickox said that four hours after she landed at the airport, her fever registered 101 degrees when it was taken with a forehead scanner by a “smug"-looking female officer in a quarantine section. The above-normal reading, she said, was because she was upset and her face was flush with anxiety over being detained with no reason given. When her temperature was taken later with an oral thermometer at University Hospital in Newark, it registered a normal 98.6 degrees, Ms. Hickox said on the website.
She said that during the six hours she spent at the airport she was given only a granola bar and was questioned by a procession of people, some who identified themselves, others who didn’t. “No one seemed to be in charge,” she said. “No one would tell me what was going on or what would happen to me.”
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Not to take away anything from the medical professionals who go to Africa to help but I think these people should all be quarantined in Africa before being allowed to come back.
Next thing you know will be the ACLU claiming we're profiling people and we'll end up with the same mess we have now in airports with random terrorist screenings.
Selfish.
These great humanitarians seem to have this sense of entitlement (to being treated like saints) after their bouts of telescopic philanthropy, despite having made their way through plague-stricken areas. If this mandatory quarantine causes her to hesitate before embarking upon yet another quixotic trip abroad, then it will have had at least one beneficial side-effect.
I'll just betch'a she was pissesd off at first for being targeted, but being a nurse, understood and accepted her "fate".
THEN she met obola.
Now ... HE prolly dint say nuthin', but before and after briefing and debriefing ... all of a sudden .. our American medical routine is junk
Sounds like Viet Nam all over again ... boy ... we Americans are so cruel and evil killers
BTW .. America has not recovered from that malignment.
I don’t particularly like that she was inconvenienced, but public safety should be important to her in her profession.
Don’t profess to be doing good deeds for others, then get upset just because we’re trying to prevent the introduction of disease here.
Welcome to the Obola nation
Waaaaaah! Whiner!!!
In charge, responsible, and solving problems? No ... No, we don't do that around here. That's kind of 1940s, don't you think?
In her defense, it seems to me that someone should have told her early on that she was being held for a fews hours to adequately observe her for Ebola symptoms, because she just returned from the hot zone. That wouldn’t have hurt anything, and would have set her reasonable expectations to be there for a few hours.
I think you’re confusing your nurses here.
Last week, Mrs BN & I took a last minute deal on a cruise. Because we had not booked 24 hours before boarding, TSA insisted on frisking. I said, "No Way, this is an 'unreasonable search' and violates my 4th Amendment Right".
Showing them my USMC O-3 Disabled Veteran ID card carried no weight with TSA.
I was having mobility problems and was using my walker, so i told them, "I more closely fit the profile of Leon Klinghoffer than that of a terrorist." (I'm two years younger than Klinghoffer was) I was ready to let my wife cruise by herself when the cruise line rep said, "Let us pat your legs from the knees down and your back & shoulders."
For my wife's sake, I agreed.
I doubt if I will fly again, even though I've managed to avoid being groped at the airport.
My wife and I recently traveled to and from Newark for a cruise that departed from Brooklyn. Ditto on "never fly again"...I have lost 2 distinctive cloth belts (two different flights) that I used to help identify my bags....TSA apparently stole them both. AA charged $50/bag so it cost $200 additional for the round trip. No thanks....I'll drive from now on.
If she wants to complain about it, I say give her something to really complain about. Give her the bill for her 21 day quarantine that she’s forcing on the rest of us.
I’d say she knew perfectly well why she was being detained. Heck, she’d have to be too stupid to fly unaccompanied if she didn’t. At the same time, I’m sure they were rude to her and they probably didn’t know what they were doing either.
But cry me a river, honey. The “medical professionals” seem to be the ones who are hopping planes and trains and violating quarantine at any moment that they are not under guard.
A certain part of it is medical doctors’ arrogance, which should be a syndrome...and some of it is denial. Nah, can’t happen to me, I work in the biz.
And while I think at the moment that it is not likely that anybody other than people who were handling and exposed to patient bowel fluids,especially around the time of death, is likely to catch it, that’s certainly not guaranteed and also could probably change.
These people are just plain arrogant and made in the model of their God, Obama.
That is what I picked up from what she said that was critical. No one knew what the hell they were doing and it showed.
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