Spoiled brat nurse won’t accept home quarantine

Earlier this week I wrote about how New York and New Jersey were implementing mandatory quarantines for healthcare workers and others coming into the United States from Africa if theyw ere coming from areas known to have Ebola.

The first person to be tossed into quarantine on arrival was Kaci Hickox, a nurse with Doctors without Brains Borders. She had been ministering to Ebola patients, and when she came back from Africa, apparently triggered those highly accurate temperature sensors. Rather than take any chances, they put her into quarantine. Being the highly trained professional that she is, she promptly started whining and complaining about being put into quarantine. She started making threats about lawsuits. Finally The Jersey Whale caved in to her whining and let her travel to her home in Maine.

Once in Maine, she was supposed to stay in her home in a self monitored quarantine. She has announced that she has no intention of doing that. The Maine health officials have had enough of her antics and are looking into forcing her into quarantine until she is proven clear of the Ebola virus. Here are the details from Fox News:

Maine health officials said Tuesday that they are prepared to go to court to force nurse Kaci Hickox to comply with the state’s “voluntary” 21-day quarantine period for health care workers who have treated Ebola patients, as the nurse vows to defy the state.

As you can imagine, the spoiled little brat is furious over this.

Hickox, on Wednesday, told NBC’s “Today” that she doesn’t “plan on sticking to the guidelines” and is “appalled” by the home quarantine policies “forced” on her.

“I truly believe this policy is not scientifically nor constitutionally just, and so I’m not going to sit around and be bullied around by politicians and be forced to stay in my home when I am not a risk to the American public,” she said, saying she’s in “perfectly good health.”

Maybe she should talk to another member of Doctors without Brains Borders, Doctor Craig Spencer. He thought he was in perfect health, right up until he came down with Ebola, which he was nice enough to travel around New York City with, putting hundreds of people at risk. The State of Maine isn’t going to take the risk that Ms. “I’m perfectly healthy and you are all idiots” Hickox might be carrying the virus and not know it.

Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew earlier declined during a news conference to comment specifically on Hickox, who was confined against her will at a New Jersey hospital before traveling home to Maine. But Mayhew said her department and the attorney general’s office were prepared to take legal steps to enforce a quarantine if someone declines to cooperate.

“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.”

As you might expect, Ms. Moose Brains has a lawyer.

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.

I’m not surprised that her location is “Undisclosed.” I have a suspicion that if people around her knew she was in the area, they might invite her to go into quarantine at the point of a rifle. As you might expect, her “friends and neighbors” aren’t exactly thrilled with Nurse Potato Head’s plans.

The news of Hickox’s return to Maine swept across the town of Fort Kent and the university campus, which has 1,400 students. Faith Morneault, a 19-year-old behavioral science student, said news that Hickox may be headed to Fort Kent had caused “a lot of panic” among students. But she said she understands her desire to go home.

Which might not be a problem if the moron would just cool her heels for a month until she’s cleared.

Another student, 20-year-old behavioral science major Kayla Michaud, said students also are worried because of the potential presence of Hickox’s boyfriend in the school community.

“If she’s in quarantine, is he going to be quarantined, because we don’t all want to be contaminated with the Ebola virus,” she said.

Now I’ll grant that Ebola isn’t easy to transmit, but it seems that every day the CDC is coming out with new information that contradicts what they said just days before. Then we have U.S. Army troops who are being put into a 21 day quarantine in Italy, with discussions of putting every single soldier who goes there into quarantine before being being returned to the United States or being released to their bases and families. While the troops might not be happy with a 21 day separation, they understand the need for it.

As for Kaci Hickox? She has demonstrated that she is not fit to be a nurse. She is putting herself and her desires over those of people she might potentially infect if it turns out she does have Ebola. She should be stripped of any certificates and licenses she has. If she does start showing symptoms and is confirmed to have the virus, well, I’m feeling really nasty now. Isolate her, keep her comfortable with fluids and pain killers and let the disease run its course. If she survives, fine and dandy. If not, oh well.

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~The Angry Webmaster~

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