Republican Governor Escalates War On Quarantined Woman Who’s Not A Health Risk
The saga of Nurse Kaci Hickox, the Doctors Without Borders nurse who returned from fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone a week ago only to be locked in a New Jersey quarantine tent and deported back to Maine, took some weirdly dramatic turns yesterday. Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) had vowed to seek a court order against Hickox if she refused to obey a “voluntary” yet coerced 21-day quarantine, a quarantine for which there is no medical basis. Nurse Hickox’s response became national news, as Maine’s threat sent her on the Bike Ride Heard ‘Round The World. This footage of a throng of reporters breathlessly documenting a bike ride is surreal, but also noteworthy for what isn’t in the picture:
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As you can see, there are reporters swarming Kaci Hickox, and many of them got well within three feet of her as they approached her home, yet none of them wore protective gear. Even as they “report the controversy,” as journalists unfortunately do on matters of settled science these days, their actions essentially confirm that Hickox is not a risk. This is bad journalistic theater.
LePage’s response was also appropriately theatrical, as he concern-trolled about a concocted threat of mob violence against Hickox, and threatened to do… something if she got within three feet of anyone…READ MORE[su_csky_ad]
rosscassell October 31st, 2014 at 5:27 pm
The Governors idealogy has nothing to do with it…
California’s Gov is a Demoncrat and look at their policy on the subject..
Not everything is supposed to have a left vs right slant.
tracey marie October 31st, 2014 at 5:30 pm
rotflmao….poor tp still stuck on stupid.
rg9rts October 31st, 2014 at 5:35 pm
Drunk again I see
arc99 October 31st, 2014 at 5:40 pm
The California policy is that county public health officials (not state) will decide on a case by case basis how to handle someone who may have been exposed to Ebola.
So why not educate yourself on the facts before engaging in lame sarcasm about “Demoncrat”
rosscassell October 31st, 2014 at 5:49 pm
AS opposed to the other names your compadres use????? Hypocrite.. What I said still stands,
arc99 October 31st, 2014 at 5:57 pm
whether it “stands” or not is irrelevant. your statement is a misrepresentation of the situation in California.
Typical right winger with a fact-free opinion.
Call me any name you like. It is the only thing you folks are good at. Well, name-calling and being wrong on the facts, so I stand corrected. Right wingers are good at two things.
http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/10/29/4204909/california-orders-risk-based-ebola.html
Dr. Ron Chapman, the state’s health officer, said California is establishing a statewide guideline to protect the public while preserving “respect and dignity” for health care workers who volunteer to help combat the epidemic in West Africa.
California’s standard, which is more nuanced and flexible that the blanket quarantines in New Jersey and New York, will be determined by county health officials on a case-by-case basis, based on the risk of exposure. That means some people could be isolated at home while others deemed lower risk are free to move about while being monitored.
Red Mann November 1st, 2014 at 11:42 am
Sheesh arc99, you used words that are foreign to the RW mind, “respect and dignity” and “nuanced and flexible”. Binary minds cannot compute that.
rg9rts October 31st, 2014 at 5:30 pm
No surprise…fearmongering is the gopee agenda
tracey marie October 31st, 2014 at 5:30 pm
tag
rg9rts October 31st, 2014 at 5:34 pm
Damn!
tiredoftea October 31st, 2014 at 5:41 pm
Gov. LePage is visibly out of his depth in taking on Ms. Hickox and the legalities of her quarantine. Threatening her with pitch fork wielding Mainer’s could be straight from South Park.
William October 31st, 2014 at 11:59 pm
Gov. LePage is visibly out of his depth in taking on Ms. Hickox
I live in Maine.
Lepage is visibly out of his depth trying to use an etch-a-sketch.
tiredoftea November 1st, 2014 at 12:03 am
You win!!
allison1050 November 1st, 2014 at 6:55 am
chuckles!
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker October 31st, 2014 at 6:35 pm
Facts and science don’t matter to republicans. They only deal in fear, hysteria and lies.
StoneyCurtisll October 31st, 2014 at 7:07 pm
Indeed~!
StoneyCurtisll October 31st, 2014 at 7:07 pm
I’m pretty sure after November 4th, Ebola will become a non issue..
Republicans_are_Evil October 31st, 2014 at 7:08 pm
Count on it. We won’t hear much about golf either.
StoneyCurtisll October 31st, 2014 at 7:25 pm
Could you imagine the outrage from the right wing and the NRA is this young woman was told she couldn’t have a gun for 21 days after entering the country?
NW10 October 31st, 2014 at 7:27 pm
Again I ask: where is Glenn Greenwald? Where is Rand Paul? Where are all of the “civil libertarians” who whined about the NSA to defend Kaci Hickox’s civil liberties from evil big government?
OldLefty October 31st, 2014 at 7:34 pm
Again I ask: where is Glenn Greenwald? Where is Rand Paul?
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Living in Phony Baloney Land?
allison1050 November 1st, 2014 at 6:54 am
lol
causeican October 31st, 2014 at 9:00 pm
Benghazi.
William October 31st, 2014 at 11:58 pm
Chances you get Ebola from a nurse: 0/300 million
Chances you’ll die by gunshot: 1/10K
Jaz November 1st, 2014 at 12:33 am
Trick or Treat?
raincheck November 1st, 2014 at 8:02 am
It should be “Doctors AND Nurses without borders”