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Nurse who treated Ebola in Africa complains about quarantine

Posted on 10/26/14 at 7:24 pm
Posted by KSGamecock
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Posted on 10/26/14 at 7:24 pm
Stolen from the headlines of Drudge
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Nurse Kaci Hickox was/is quarantined in New Jersey after returning from Sierra Leone where she treated patients with Ebola.

When she arrived in Newark she was greeted by Immigration and Customs personnel who upon learning that she had traveled to the disease-ridden area tested her temperature and found she had a fever, they then placed her in quarantine. She has since tested negative on two preliminary tests for Ebola but that's not the point.

Here's what she's had to say about her **GASP** 21 day quarantine. 21 friggin days.

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"This is an extreme that is really unacceptable, and I feel like my basic human rights have been violated,"
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"To put me through this emotional and physical stress is completely unacceptable,"
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"To put me in prison," she said, "is just inhumane."


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"I'm sorry, but that's just a completely unacceptable statement in my opinion. For (Christie) -- a politician who's trusted and respected -- to make a statement that's categorically not true is just unacceptable and appalling."

Hickox told Crowley that mandatory quarantine is "not a sound public health decision" and that public health officials -- not politicians -- should be making the policies related to Ebola and public safety.

"For the first 12 hours, I was in shock. Now I'm angry," she added.


So what did this lady expect? To just drive home from the airport after spending time in Africa treating Ebola?

What a frickin idiot.

...and it's not prison, it's a hospital for three friggin weeks. Close your eyes and its over.

Leave the decisions up to health professionals? Oh like the doctor who paraded around NYC after contracting the disease?

frick that.

People that fly in from that part of the world should be quarantined, no matter what they tell ICE officials at the airport. Let's not play with this shite.

/end rant
Posted by Vols&Shaft83
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Posted on 10/26/14 at 7:26 pm to
$100 says she voted for Obama
Posted by UMRealist
Member since Feb 2013
35360 posts
Posted on 10/26/14 at 7:27 pm to
Who cares? frick her.
Posted by Robert Goulet
Member since Jan 2013
9999 posts
Posted on 10/26/14 at 7:30 pm to
I generally don't call women counts, but this one is a dumb count.
Posted by Jobu93
Cypress TX
Member since Sep 2011
19313 posts
Posted on 10/26/14 at 7:58 pm to
Suck it up, buttercup.

You helped others when they were in need and bully for you. Now cool your jets for a bit because you need to be vetted, medically.

Posted by genro
Member since Nov 2011
61788 posts
Posted on 10/26/14 at 8:01 pm to
Her feelings got hurt. This is just like the Japanese internment camps.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 10/26/14 at 8:02 pm to
I think it's noble to go help those less fortunate. I also think the 21 day quarantine should take place before you get on a plane to the US.
Posted by CNB
Columbia, SC
Member since Sep 2007
96384 posts
Posted on 10/26/14 at 8:14 pm to
Well that's awfully selfish of her.
Posted by TIGERFANZZ
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Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 10/27/14 at 8:40 am to
She can go live in the Ebola "hot zone" in frickin Africa but being quarantined in the US is too harsh? Pretty sure her accommodations would be considered a palace in the shite hole she just came from. And if you choose to go and work in a "contagious environmen" then you have to realize that you will be subject to certain protocol when you return. Dont like it? then stay your arse home & take care of the millions of people in your own country who are suffering.
Posted by BluegrassBelle
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Member since Nov 2010
99878 posts
Posted on 10/27/14 at 11:19 am to
Good for her for helping those in need. But she needs to get over her shite. If I came into contact at work with a kid who was diagnosed with Ebola I think I'd actually request to be quarantined if for no other reason then to protect those close to me.
Posted by Cockopotamus
Member since Jan 2013
15745 posts
Posted on 10/27/14 at 12:49 pm to
I think the mandatory quarantine is stupid because people aren't contagious until they're displaying symptoms.

And even then you've got to swap body fluids to transmit the disease.

But let's not have facts get in the way of a nice media frenzy that politicians can exploit
Posted by Tiguar
Montana
Member since Mar 2012
33131 posts
Posted on 10/27/14 at 2:11 pm to
bitch is ugly as frick
Posted by rootisback
Member since Mar 2014
3371 posts
Posted on 10/27/14 at 2:26 pm to
Selfish, All-about-me, 47% that is growing everyday in this country
Posted by Aubie Spr96
lolwut?
Member since Dec 2009
41329 posts
Posted on 10/27/14 at 3:13 pm to
She's tested negative for Ebola twice. She's never shown any signs of fever. All this does is contribute to the irrational hysteria over this virus and deter other medical professionals from going to Africa to help stop it.

This reminds me of the Ryan White kid back when AIDS was gonna kill us all. frickin people are stupid.
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