Nurse Hickox Refuses to Voluntarily Quarantine Herself

First, she balked and lawyered up over a mandatory quarantine. Now, she says she will NOT comply with a voluntary quarantine either. Bottom line is that this woman does NOT give two hoots about the American public. And she's got a HUGE chip on her shoulder.


“We do not want to have to legally enforce in-home quarantine,” she said. “We’re confident that selfless health workers who were brave enough to care for Ebola patients in a foreign country will be willing to take reasonable steps to protect residents of their own country. However we are willing to pursue legal authority if necessary to ensure risk is minimized for Mainers.”

Hickox’s lawyer insisted Tuesday that she was not under quarantine and said she was seeking time to decompress at an undisclosed location in Maine. Steven Hyman of the New York law firm McLaughlin & Stern told the Bangor Daily News that Hickox will not comply with Maine’s requirements to remain under quarantine for 21 days.

“She doesn’t want to agree to continue to be confined to a residence beyond the two days,” Hyman told the Daily news.

Hickox’s other attorney, New York civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel, called Maine’s quarantine “unconstitutional.”

http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/201...n-west-africa-wont-observe-states-quarantine/

 

This (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) does not have the right to infect the world...........

MOD EDIT - Rule 3

 

On this one we agree 100%. The women started whining from day one, what the heck is wrong with her, she is a nurse for God's sake and knows she could be infected and still not be showing symptoms yet. She sounded like a whiner from day one and knew she was going to try and get money, she will lose. I could not stand the attention the press was giving her, everyone kept repeating that she was kept against her will and does not have the virus, as if they knew this beforehand, sometimes the press takes this waaay too far.

 

She is not going to infect anyone.

Yes, I know this for a fact.

Check back here in a month.

 

Put this idiot woman in jail. And revoke her nursing license.

 

The idiots are the ones who think an asymptomatic individual poses a risk to anyone.

This lady does not have ebola.

 

are you psychic ?
public safety > self entitlement

 

You know she tested free of Ebola right? You know she is not contagious right?

 

I agree that public safety > individual

but there is not a threat to public safety. It's just the ignorant public caught up in hysteria demanding protection from a threat that doesn't exist.

 

Since there is no medical justification for the quarantine, I'd say she has a case.

The quarantine is a craven political response to ignorant public panic. By refusing to stay quarantined, she is not putting anybody at risk. She is pointing out that the quarantine is not medically justified.

When will the bedwetting panic stop? ASYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS ARE NOT CONTAGIOUS. EVEN SYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS ARE ONLY CONTAGIOUS IF YOU SOMEHOW LET THEIR BODILY FLUIDS INSIDE YOUR OWN BODY.

Good grief.

 

Better to be safe than sorry. This woman needs to suck it up and stay at home for a few more days.

 

Except that's not the choice. THERE IS NO MEDICAL JUSTIFICATION FOR THE QUARANTINE.

CDC protocol calls for a twice-daily check for symptoms. The nurse has agreed to those.

We aren't being "safe" by quarantining her. We're being stupid. And she's refusing to be a party to it.

 

Until the 21 days of her departure from the Ebola infested nation has expired all that means is that she has not yet come down with Ebola. That NYC doctor who LIED about his self-quarantine activities tested Ebola free too . . . right up until he showed the world that -- ooops! -- he had it after all.

 

The NYC M.D. agreed to self-quarantine and then arrogantly decided just to LIE about having done it rather than actually do it . . . and he then came down with Ebola and God only knows how many perfectly innocent victims had to be tracked down and informed that they might have been infected with a killer virus just because an arrogant M.D. decided that he was too important to self-quarantine.

 

Twice-daily checks are reasonable; quarantine is not.

As evidenced by the fact that, despite the doctor going out to eat and going bowling, NOBODY ELSE HAS CAUGHT EBOLA.

In fact, of all the people who HAVE been diagnosed with Ebola in this country, only ONE -- Duncan, the first victim -- has died.

The two nurses that treated him and caught it? Released from the hospital and virus-free.

Ebola's contagion path simply doesn't justify something as drastic as quarantine for asymptomatic people.

 

We should wall off Texas and New York and quarantine everyone who has been in those states for 21 days.

Crazy right? but it's better to be safe than sorry.

 

He shouldn't have lied. But again, he knew (and you should know by now) that Ebola simply isn't that contagious. Once he became symptomatic, he went to the hospital.

 

I'd be the farm on it.

This ebola hysteria is priceless and a good example of fear and ignorance intersecting to create an old fashioned witch hunt.

 

It sorta makes you nostalgic for the days before the internet and cable TV.

Hardly anyone would know or care about ebola if we weren't constantly bombarded with stories from people trying to get us to see the ads that pay their bills.

 

The titanic can not sink.

Yes, I know this for a fact.

Check back after our maiden voyage!

 

Can she come stay at your place for a while?

 

Check back with me in a month. I'll eat crow covered in this nurses ebola infested feces.

 

Until 21 days have passed since the M.D. and the world knew for a fact that he had Ebola nobody can know if someone he brushed up against or sneezed on between Tuesday and Thursday of that week might yet come down with the virus . . . which is WHY you quarantine incoming travelers from Ebola infected nations, and especially health care workers who you KNOW have been in direct contact with the sick and dying. Orrrrrrrrrr you just do it the Leftwing Obama way and wait until U.S. citizens do begin keeling over and then you blame Bush.

 

What if she genuinely believes that the risk of giving the disease to someone else is so negligible that quarantine is ridiculous? And what if she's right?

 

Only if you promise to do this while riding a unicycle.