This Is Ridiculous
The BBC reports that ‘Wild’ Kaci Hickox is on the loose:
The governor of Maine has vowed to exercise the “full extent” of his authority to quarantine a nurse who treated Ebola patients in Africa.
Paul LePage said negotiations with Kaci Hickox, who last week returned from Sierra Leone, over the terms of her isolation had broken down.
Meanwhile Ms Hickox, who is free of Ebola symptoms, went for a bike ride.
Ah, but she didn’t just go for a bike ride, she talked to reporters, and even shook a hand that was offered. All this while still, maliciously, not having any symptoms of anything. 😈
LePage has gone to court to get an order so the state police officers he has watching her can actually prevent her from doing what she wants. Of course, a court order can be challenged and LePage will have to justify the need for confining Ms Hickox.
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The stupid never ends, indeed.
LePage is pandering to his base — he is about to be kicked out of office as governor unless he does something to get them to go to the polls. But he should have known better than to do so by trying to bully a red-headed nurse. That bird don’t run :).
She lives in Fort Kent which I now know is the northern terminus of US 1. If you head north across the bridge you are in Canada, so I don’t really see how she can be a threat to the state of Maine. There are only just over 4,000 people living there, so they probably all know her since it’s her home town.
One of the reporters who talked to her said she looked a lot healthier than the reporters who were asking questions.
If, as LePage claimed, the state police were there for her protection, why did they permit the reporters to approach her? She didn’t really want to talk to them, but did because it was the polite thing to do. She decided on a bike ride to avoid the media outside her house.
The next flashpoint may be Tuesday if Ms Hickox hasn’t already voted by absentee ballot. If LePage doesn’t let her vote, the defecation will definitely impact on the ventilation.
I get the feeling that if they had asked, she probably would have gone along, but she doesn’t respond well to demands.
Yeah, LePage is one of the worse things to ever happen to Maine politics. He may have just energized a lot of people who would have stayed at home.
“… the defecation will definitely impact on the ventilation.”
ROTFLMAO! I’ve never heard it put quite that way. Before this, the best version I’ve heard was from (I believe) Bored of the Rings, where someone says “the fewmets have hit the windmill.”
Ah, yes, nothing quite like Medieval terms for Harvard humor 😉
At one time I knew a lot of people working in the HVAC industry, and that’s where I first heard the version I used.