Hickox – 1, Christie – 0
After the verbal beating that New Jersey governor Christie took from Kaci Hickox over the weekend, CNN reports Quarantined woman to be discharged, Christie’s office announces.
Ms Hickox will be going home to Maine where she is probably the leading expert in the state on Ebola and the treatment of patients with the disease. Maine has an international airport and could certainly use some local guidance in the area.
It was absurd on the part of the governors to think that people who have volunteered to risk their lives dealing with the Ebola outbreak at its source were going to quietly acquiesce to being treated like criminals on their return.
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After facing Ebola, Governor Christie was not going to inspire any fear in Hickox. I mean, what was he going to do? Infect her with a horrible hemorrhagic virus?
Bryan,
These two governors sensibly used every bit of their expertise when the formulated their policies. Their expertise in lying, manipulative bull-crap has served them well to raise their reputation to the proletariat. This time, however, Ms. Hickox had the audacity too point out the two governors are hip-deep in the sludge of their own making.
Hurrah for her, she IS an American hero!
Someone may have reminded him of the 14th Amendment, Badtux, because the young woman lawyered up and was ready to take New Jersey on. I saw a quote from her partner saying ‘they picked a fight with the wrong red head.’
That’s about it, Shirt – they created this swamp and now they are going to have to wade through it. They didn’t understand that there are ‘gators in swamps, and they stepped on one’s tail.
“Messed with the wrong redhead” indeed. They should have taken one look at her hair and run screaming for the exits :). She reminds me of a nurse I know who served in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Due to what she experienced and saw there, she was equally fearless when dealing with mere “ordinary” problems, or even extraordinary ones.
She isn’t just a nurse, she’s primarily an epidemiologist, so they are blundering around in her field of expertise. They have shown that they don’t have an isolation ward available in the state of New Jersey, otherwise why put her in a tent?
Yeah, it is a real pain to have to deal with people who have never been in really bad situations, and are freaking out because of ‘possibilities’.
Maybe, instead of wasting money building prisons for drug users, they could build a few isolation wards around the state. If you are going to imprison people for being health care workers, you need to have the facilities to house them. You can’t put people in tents in the winter.