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Title: Ebola Nurse Rejects Quarantine and Hires a Lawyer – Here’s Why
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Published: Oct 31, 2014
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Post Date: 2014-10-31 21:18:00 by BTP Holdings
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Ebola Nurse Rejects Quarantine and Hires a Lawyer – Here’s Why 9statesquarantine KaciHickox1The first person affected by the newly implemented New Jersey Ebola quarantine is Kaci Hickox, a nurse and epidemiologist affiliated with Doctors Without Borders. Hickox landed in Newark after working with Ebola patients in west Africa. Airport screeners isolated her in a room; after several hours her temperature had risen slightly, and she was transferred to a hastily erected tent adjacent to a nearby hospital. Hickox has been outspoken in her anger at the way she was treated, and went so far as to retain a civil rights attorney. When she showed no further symptoms, and tested negative for the virus, Governor Christie backed down, and she was transferred privately to her home state of Maine. On October 25th, the Dallas News published an op-ed piece written by Kaci Hickox, entitled “Her story: UTA grad isolated at New Jersey Hospital in Ebola quarantine.” It reads, in part: I have been quarantined in New Jersey. This is not a situation I would wish on anyone, and I am scared for those who will follow me. I am scared about how health care workers will be treated at airports when they declare that they have been fighting Ebola in West Africa. I am scared that, like me, they will arrive and see a frenzy of disorganization, fear and, most frightening, quarantine…The U.S. must treat returning health care workers with dignity and humanity. She went on to say that she was made to feel like a criminal and a prisoner while under mandatory quarantine. Her attorney, Norman Siegel, told ABC News, Her civil rights were violated. At a minimum, she could bring an action for damages. But I think her goal is to try to revise the current policies with regard to, for example, mandatory quarantines. Siegel also says Hickox will contest any effort by the state of Maine to enforce a quarantine. She does intend to comply with daily health monitoring for the standard 21 days, to be sure she does not develop Ebola. Mandatory quarantine is rare in today’s world, although it was frequently imposed in previous centuries to combat the spread of infectious diseases. There are conflicting theories about how aggressive state governments should be in their treatment of people who might be infected. New Jersey is not the only state to enforce tighter restrictions. New York initiated similar rules, although Governor Cuomo has since scaled backed the restrictions. Illnois and several other states have taken action. Initially, media coverage of Kaci Hickox focused on her affiliation with Doctors Without Borders. However, it has since come to light that she is an employee of the Centers for Disease Control, and thus a federal employee. CDC has taken the position that mandatory quarantine is an overreaction, and would interfere with the willingness of critically needed healthcare workers to travel to Africa and back. The Obama Administration, of which the CDC is a part, issued this statement: We have let the governors of New York, New Jersey, and others states know that we have concerns with the unintended consequences of policies not grounded in science may have on efforts to combat Ebola at its source in West Africa,” an administration official said. Poster Comment: She should count herself lucky. In the old days, they would have purified everything with fire. ;)
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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Tough shit. Maine State Police should have enforced her quarantine by peppering her with rock salt from a shotgun when she showed her face on the front porch. Just another Obama voter trying to make it all about them instead of considering the REST OF THE HUMAN RACE and their right to not be potentially infected. She went on to say that she was made to feel like a criminal and a prisoner while under mandatory quarantine.
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: X-15 (#1)
Sounds like something I would do. ;) peppering her with rock salt from a shotgun
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#3. To: X-15 (#1)
If a person is on their front porch or on their property, that's fine - just as long as they don't go out in the public around other people for the period of the quarantine.
#4. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Ef 'em! We don't want them going over there and then bringing that $#it back to us! They should be told before they go that they WILL be quarantined when they come back because they can give someone else ebola without any outward sign that they are infected. Better to inconvenience them some than to allow them to spread a terrible disease and cause an epidemic here in the US. CDC has taken the position that mandatory quarantine is an overreaction, and would interfere with the willingness of critically needed healthcare workers to travel to Africa and back.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
#5. To: X-15 (#1)
It would be more sporting, and more entertaining, if they had peppered that booty with rock salt while she was pedaling said booty on her bicycle. I bet she could have made that bicycle go fast then. Tough shit. Maine State Police should have enforced her quarantine by peppering her with rock salt from a shotgun when she showed her face on the front porch.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
#6. To: ratcat (#3)
I'm a mean man :)
-Alex Kurtagic
#7. To: X-15 (#6)
LOL I'm a mean man :)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#8. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
We're all criminals and prisoners now. Just a matter of when the estalishment decides to take action and how. Of course the real criminals and perps are them, but people are so gullible that they continually sign their own permission to have themselves detained. She went on to say that she was made to feel like a criminal and a prisoner ...
#9. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Or for varying other reasons of convenience of a government(s) run by the Synagogue of Satan. Just wait 6 months or a year or two and it's not going to be so rare anymore. Mandatory quarantine is rare in today’s world, although it was frequently imposed in previous centuries to combat the spread of infectious diseases.
#10. To: Katniss (#8)
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#11. To: James Deffenbach, All (#4)
Gotta be careful about this. It has 9/11 ramifications and the potential to take this terror state to a new level, and I'm not talking about the establishment's "terror state," I'm talking about this terror state that is the establishment. This whole f'ing thing doesn't pass the smell test to me. Given how f'ing contagious this is supposed to be, the fact that there are only a few cases of it in the states currently gives me more than enough cause for pause. At this point I'm filing this whole ebola thing under if I'm feeling that threatened then I should go out and buy a Powerball ticket today. Once quarantines, aka camps, as small as they may be, are opened, then pretty soon the list of reasons to put people in them will keep growing. Are we more afraid of nature and disease than we are of those clearly continuing to oppress us? Not this guy! Ef 'em! We don't want them going over there and then bringing that $#it back to us! They should be told before they go that they WILL be quarantined when they come back because they can give someone else ebola without any outward sign that they are infected. Better to inconvenience them some than to allow them to spread a terrible disease and cause an epidemic here in the US.
#12. To: Katniss (#11)
I understand your point but I still think that if people volunteer to put themselves in jeopardy by knowingly going somewhere in the middle of an epidemic of a deadly disease, it is not too much to ask of them to go into quarantine so that they don't put everyone else at risk. If I had some killer disease that was highly contagious I wouldn't want to be out putting everyone I met at risk, would you? But that nurse that we're talking about doesn't seem to give a damn and it makes me wonder why she got into that profession and why she volunteered to go to a third world shit hole to help those people when she cares nothing about the people here.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
#13. To: James Deffenbach (#12)
What, you would want her to volunteer at a free clinic in Detroit or Baltimore?? Sheesh, the nerve of some people.... ;-) But that nurse that we're talking about doesn't seem to give a damn and it makes me wonder why she got into that profession and why she volunteered to go to a third world shit hole to help those people when she cares nothing about the people here.
-Alex Kurtagic
#14. To: X-15 (#13)
If she wants to give her time and services there are plenty of people here in the US who could use the help. Not that she isn't free to go where she wants and help whoever she chooses to, but she has no right to come back here and spread ebola around like party favors. I don't want any and don't know anyone who does.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
#15. To: James Deffenbach (#14)
Absolutely. Plenty of Americans need help, just think how far the international airfares to Afreaka! would go here in America to help our own!!
-Alex Kurtagic
#16. To: James Deffenbach (#12)
Agreed. I wasn't taking issue with that point. Just generally speaking. I understand your point but I still think that if people volunteer to put themselves in jeopardy by knowingly going somewhere in the middle of an epidemic of a deadly disease, it is not too much to ask of them to go into quarantine so that they don't put everyone else at risk. If I had some killer disease that was highly contagious I wouldn't want to be out putting everyone I met at risk, would you? But that nurse that we're talking about doesn't seem to give a damn and it makes me wonder why she got into that profession and why she volunteered to go to a third world shit hole to help those people when she cares nothing about the people here.
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