Controversy Over Nurse in Maine Who Treated Ebola Patients in Sierra Leone

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There's a lot of controversy over this nurse, although she is not contagious presently, they want her to stay home. She defiantly is out and about, riding her bike with police escorts. Some people say she should pay for this nonsense, not the taxpayers. What do you think, is she being stubborn, or just exercising her rights as a citizen? http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/30/health/us-ebola/

Quarantined American: I'm in disbelief

She blasted New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for enforcing a new policy that required anyone who was showing symptoms of Ebola, including an elevated temperature, to be isolated.

Since returning to Maine, she has said in numerous interviews that she feels healthy.
State troopers have been parked outside Hickox's boyfriend's home.

Siegel told CNN that Maine authorities must obtain a court order before they make any movement to arrest or detain her. Once that order is secured, her legal team would have three days to challenge it.

He said he hoped a conversation between her legal team and Maine officials would produce a "reasonable" compromise.
"If we're going to have a disagreement, let's have the disagreement in a court of law," Siegel said, "not in the streets of Maine."

On Wednesday, Gov. LePage said that Hickox "has been unwilling to follow the protocols set forth by the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for medical workers who have been in contact with Ebola patients."

The statement didn't say which protocols she was resisting but added that LePage is seeking legal authority to enforce a quarantine.
Maine Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew said Wednesday that the process to file a court order had already begun.
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I think two politicians who can read polls,( Especially LePage who is up for re-election), are using this as a political ploy a week before midterm elections. Once Tuesday is come and gone, he will not be so interested in what this poor woman does.
 
The judge ruled in her favor, so she should be happy now. She celebrated Halloween by having her boyfriend cook Oriental food.

You know who wears the pants in THAT relationship.

I think she's a self-centered person who cares more about her imagined rights than the people around her, despite her "heroic" trip to West Africa.
 

SifuPhil said:
The judge ruled in her favor, so she should be happy now. She celebrated Halloween by having her boyfriend cook Oriental food.

You know who wears the pants in THAT relationship.

I think she's a self-centered person who cares more about her imagined rights than the people around her, despite her "heroic" trip to West Africa.
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I think she should have voluntarily quarantined herself just out of consideration for the fears of the public. Considering that the information from the CDC seems to be far from 'static' and reassuring, it would have been the decent, reasonable and considerate thing to do. I'd do it. I'm betting she has television, internet, an iPhone, etc., so it's not like anyone is asking her to live in a bag, under a rock for three weeks.

You have to wonder what point she's trying to prove? Because I don't think it's the one that the public is perceiving.
 
I don't think she is trying to prove anything. She just wants to be able to go on with her life after contributing a significant thing to humanity. She has the Constitution AND Medical fact on her side. She didn't ask Christie and LePage to behave like asses for nothing. People need to just get over this craziness.
 
QuickSilver said:
Self-centered? Did YOU go to West Africa to care for the sick? She is a hero!!
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The term "hero" has been so overused the past few years that it means nothing anymore. Simply doing your job makes one a hero anymore. It has cheapened the term and makes suspect anyone who boasts the title.

No, I did not go to West Africa. As an OMD I spent my time working on making Americans better. In the process, I have not endangered anyone else.

You might check it out some time - it's called the Hippocratic Oath. I am not doing harm to others.
 
Debby said:
I think she should have voluntarily quarantined herself just out of consideration for the fears of the public. Considering that the information from the CDC seems to be far from 'static' and reassuring, it would have been the decent, reasonable and considerate thing to do. I'd do it. I'm betting she has television, internet, an iPhone, etc., so it's not like anyone is asking her to live in a bag, under a rock for three weeks.

You have to wonder what point she's trying to prove? Because I don't think it's the one that the public is perceiving.
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I really don't know what her point is, unless it's to bring a lucrative lawsuit against someone (notice how quickly she hired top-shelf legal help) and/or she wants to write a tell-all book.

I also don't understand how someone supposedly trained in medical work can be so cavalier when it comes to the health of others. She is supposedly well-acquainted with viral infections - hasn't she read the history of them? How they can be minimized by quarantine?
 
Debby said:
I think she should have voluntarily quarantined herself just out of consideration for the fears of the public. Considering that the information from the CDC seems to be far from 'static' and reassuring, it would have been the decent, reasonable and considerate thing to do. I'd do it. I'm betting she has television, internet, an iPhone, etc., so it's not like anyone is asking her to live in a bag, under a rock for three weeks.

You have to wonder what point she's trying to prove? Because I don't think it's the one that the public is perceiving.
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I completely agree. A 21 day quarantine is not unreasonable.
 
QuickSilver said:
Self-centered? Did YOU go to West Africa to care for the sick? She is a hero!!
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Going to West Africa to nurse ebola patients was her choice. It was something she wanted to do for whatever reason. Coming home and refusing to understand that neighbors and members of her home community are more than a little tense because of all the ebola cases in the US strikes me as inconsiderate at the very least and arrogantly dangerous at the worst.

Legislation needs to be passed to mandatorily quarantine American doctors and nurses returning from West Africa so that the American people will be safe and this will never become an issue in the future.
 
chic said:
Going to West Africa to nurse ebola patients was her choice. It was something she wanted to do for whatever reason. Coming home and refusing to understand that neighbors and members of her home community are more than a little tense because of all the ebola cases in the US strikes me as inconsiderate at the very least and arrogantly dangerous at the worst.

Legislation needs to be passed to mandatorily quarantine American doctors and nurses returning from West Africa so that the American people will be safe and this will never become an issue in the future.
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I agree chic. For some selfish reason she is ignoring the safety of the public and her poor boyfriend.
 
Sad story on radio last night...Momma dies from Ebola in Sierra Leone..and it is their custom to wash the body..dress it..a family affair...

14 of the relations who were present now have Ebola...

My god..how infectious is this disease?
 
As some others have said,she should have had consideration for friends and neighbours and anyone else and voluntarily quarantined herself, until it was certain she was fine. I would have done that, and this woman is a nurse!
 
For what it's worth in my opinion ,she is being thoughtless and uncaring of the people around her. If she went to help others in another country,she didn't mind leaving her friends and family for a period of time,so why should a 21 day quarantine bother her, She can communicate with them by phone,exercise in the house and still not run the risk of causing harm to anyone. I don't understand her reasoning on this very important issue.
 
Her reasoning is that of the CDC and ALL the world renowned epidemiologists. If you are NOT sick... You are NOT contagious. She is not sick... therefore she cannot infect anyone and therefore she is being held prisoner for no reason. All this is simply fear mongering.
 
To me, and this is just my opinion. This gal is a typical case of "look at me".

"look how wonderful and well intentioned I am" " I went to Africa to save humanity and I am special and wonderful"

But she gets back to the states, the it is " I am so wonderful and smart, the rules do not apply to me" " I get special treatment, cause of the wonderful things I did and how wonderful I am"
"I am smarter than the rest of the citizens who the rules are made for" " I am so wonderful I know when I am contagious or not"

In other words she is a self centered bitch!
 
rkunsaw said:
To me, and this is just my opinion. This gal is a typical case of "look at me".

"look how wonderful and well intentioned I am" " I went to Africa to save humanity and I am special and wonderful"

But she gets back to the states, the it is " I am so wonderful and smart, the rules do not apply to me" " I get special treatment, cause of the wonderful things I did and how wonderful I am"
"I am smarter than the rest of the citizens who the rules are made for" " I am so wonderful I know when I am contagious or not"

In other words she is a self centered bitch!
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Except... she didn't ask fat ass Christie to grandstand and put her in a friggin' tent without a shower and a toiltet seat over what looked like a suitcase.. Did she? Oh.. wait.... she got off the plane to go to her home in Maine and BEGGED them to do this to her.. I must have missed that part on FOX news. lol!!!

Oh and rkunshaw...... Hope you are never deathly ill and dependant on a self centered bitch... begging her to help YOU... Remember those words... ok?
 
SifuPhil said:
The judge ruled in her favor, so she should be happy now. She celebrated Halloween by having her boyfriend cook Oriental food.

You know who wears the pants in THAT relationship.

I think she's a self-centered person who cares more about her imagined rights than the people around her, despite her "heroic" trip to West Africa.
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I agree, if there was any chance of me carrying a virus, I would absolutely go with the quarantine, I was reading about her deal this morning. Like 12 days out of my life to take precautions regarding the possibility of infection, would be such a big deal. All I can wonder about her going to Africa, is "what were her motives". I can't imagine them being heroic.
 
QuickSilver said:
Her reasoning is that of the CDC and ALL the world renowned epidemiologists. If you are NOT sick... You are NOT contagious. She is not sick... therefore she cannot infect anyone and therefore she is being held prisoner for no reason. All this is simply fear mongering.
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This makes no sense, once again. People are quarantined "in case" they become sick. You would rather have her out and about and get sick, maybe infect a few others on the way to the hospital??
 
Twixie said:
Sad story on radio last night...Momma dies from Ebola in Sierra Leone..and it is their custom to wash the body..dress it..a family affair...

14 of the relations who were present now have Ebola...

My god..how infectious is this disease?
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It's very contagious I would say, and they don't have the sterile conditions we do, I mean dirt poor right. Probably not much healthy food or clean water. No good immune systems to fight the stuff. That nurse has recovered but think of ALL the excellent "best of" everything she got. I mean I am glad for her, I just wish more people could have that kind of help.
 

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