[sinnerman]

This guy is a real leader. Handled the bullshit in the alpha way.


http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-news/ch...8985411970

[AntiTrace]

too much common sense. He'll never be president.

access to the internet
access to her cell phone
take out food provided to her

Sounds like a pretty sweet free vacation to me. But she's gotta bitch, well because, shes a bitch.

[Engineer]

This is her doctor's note for extended sick leave from work:

"Possibility of Ebola, burn this note immediately after reading and wash your hands with bleach"

[Jack198]

I read about this self-entitled SWPL twat - expects to be considered a hero for showing up in Africa, then get breezed through security on her return trip. IOW, "Fuck everybody else, I'm the great white saint who worked to save the underprivileged black folks while you did not!"

News flash to her - when working with ebola patients directly, expect some scrutiny, however botched, upon your return to the US. It's a wonder she was ever let back into the country at all.

[Blackhawk]

He doesn't pay for lawsuits related to his elected office as Governor. His state does. He has a whole floor of state lawyers on staff, already paid for. He couldn't care less.

Can her nursing license be revoked by the state nursing board if she doesn't abide by their health procedures, like following the state quarantine requirements? "Unprofessional Behavior" is the catch all used for all sorts of grounds like appearing in pron films or even using profanity in front of superiors that nurses lose their license under already. Patient Endangerment is the usual grounds for losing their license when they're high on the job, so will Public Endangerment for not following state quarantine requirements also become grounds?

[aSimpNamedBrokeback]

We hate fatties but we love Crisp Christie the Hamburger killer? The guy who will slam his fist down and not allow medicinal marijuana, but walks around carrying decades of excess philly cheese steaks and fries. 21 days in quarantine is fine, but I'd like to see him go 21 days without eating a hamburger.

[TheKantian]

The quarantine is a joke. Way too much fear and hysteria over ebola. The flu is going to kill more people in America this year than ebola.

[TheWastelander]

The quarantine is not a joke if the person being quarantined is someone who was working directly with Ebola patients in West Africa.

[Sherman]

(10-30-2014 07:57 AM)Blackhawk Wrote:  

He doesn't pay for lawsuits related to his elected office as Governor. His state does. He has a whole floor of state lawyers on staff, already paid for. He couldn't care less.

Can her nursing license be revoked by the state nursing board if she doesn't abide by their health procedures, like following the state quarantine requirements? "Unprofessional Behavior" is the catch all used for all sorts of grounds like appearing in pron films or even using profanity in front of superiors that nurses lose their license under already. Patient Endangerment is the usual grounds for losing their license when they're high on the job, so will Public Endangerment for not following state quarantine requirements also become grounds?

Yes it can. Here is a petition to do just that.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/903/969/2...l-license/

[Blackhawk]

One solution is to only allow boat travel that takes at least 21 days to get back to the US. They can spend their time sailing international waters for their quarantine time instead.

[TheWastelander]

On the flip side, this nurse who returned from West Africa after treating Ebola patients agreed to self-quarantine herself for 21 days:

http://www.ibtimes.com/ebola-texas-austi...ca-1715669

So, NANALT.

[jimukr104]

Actually what probably happened is that the lawyers CONTACTED her. She couldn't resist.

But I hear the governor might get a court order. If she refuses they can lock her up. Se how she likes spending a year in jail and having a criminal record. For some careers that can get your license revoked.

I am talking about Maine. As for NJ, she has no claim. She isn't even a tax payer of NJ and has NO say in their laws.

[TravelerKai]

The headlines have been saying stuff about her being bullied by this process. Ridiculous.

[samsamsam]

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/nurse-kaci-hi...quarantine

Nurse Kaci Hickox sues Gov. Chris Christie over Ebola quarantine

Quote:

A little over a year ago, Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie essentially dared a nurse to sue him after she was placed under mandatory quarantine in Newark, even though she tested negative for Ebola. And now, she’s doing just that.

Kaci Hickox, 34, has filed a lawsuit in federal court – with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union – against Christie and other state officials, alleging she was unconstitutionally held against her will and was deprived due process.

Hickox had been in Sierra Leone treating Ebola patients with the group “Doctors Without Borders.” When she flew back to the U.S. last October through Newark International Airport, en route to her home state of Maine, she was quarantined under a brand new policy under Christie and Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Under the plan, instituted at the height of the Ebola scare, all arriving air travelers who had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa were to be quarantined for 21 days, the disease’s maximum incubation period. Several medical experts and the White House consequently criticized the plan, which was stricter than federal standards. Others defended the new protocol, pointing to Craig Spencer, a doctor who began showing symptoms well after he came back to New York from West Africa.

“I never had Ebola. I never had symptoms of Ebola. I tested negative for Ebola the first night I stayed in New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s private prison,” Hickox—who now lives in Oregon—said in a statement. “My liberty, my interests, and consequently my civil rights were ignored because some ambitious governors saw an opportunity to use an age-old political tactic: fear.”

The nurse’s lawyer, Steve Hyman, told msnbc “There was no medical reason that could be enunciated for keeping her in quarantine.” Hyman argued Christie, who is now running for president, “pandered to the fear that was in the American populace at the time.” After being held in a quarantine tent in Newark for 80 hours, Hickox was allowed to return to Maine, which also wanted to quarantine her. But a judge ruled she could come and go as she pleases as long as she kept health officials in the loop.

Donna Leusner, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Health, would not comment on the lawsuit (which seeks damages of $250,000), saying the agency doesn’t comment on pending litigation. Kevin Roberts, a spokesman for Gov. Christie, also declined to comment.

The lawsuit described the conditions of Hickox’s quarantine as being in in a tent in an unheated parking garage at University Hospital in Newark. She had access to a portable toilet, but no shower and had to ask for extra blankets. Hyman said Hickox could only talk to people through a plastic window.

“Hickox was tired from jetlag and traveling for two-days, hungry, thirsty, confused and emotionally exhausted. No one told her what was going on or what was going to happen to her,” said the lawsuit.

Christie at the time argued he was doing what was best for the health and safety of those in the region. After Hickox threatened to sue the governor, Christie responded in his signature, blunt style. “Whatever. Get in line. I’ve been sued lots of times before. Get in line. I’m happy to take it on.

[eradicator]

This is the nurse in question



WYB?(assume no risk of getting ebola)

[monster]

The issue is that state handled the situation very poorly and should be held accountable if only to improve the way it goes about doing this in the future.

The ebola-quarantinees were treated as lepers. They were treated by government workers, police and other puppets not trained on basic people skills in these delicate situations. These situations must be handled as how a good doctor handles delivering terminal cancer to a patient and their family: with sensitivity, warmth, empathy and acute social intelligence. Instead the quarantinees were treated like lab rats by cold, indifferent government workers. Christie's response, "good let her stand in line and sue me" substantiates exactly this callousness.

By all means, if one poses a national health risk quarantine precautions should be taken. But by all means the modern State has no excuse not to treat them as people, not as lepers, especially when they're doctors and other humanitarian workers basically carrying out international foreign affairs. Had this nurse been treated as a person rather than a leper she would not be lashing out as she is now.

As the saying goes, honey attracts more flies than vinegar.

This is classic bad game: treat people like shit and get shit on in return.

[CactusCat589]

I expect she'll try to cause an ebola outbreak deliberately as an act of revenge. They better keep a close, close eye on her and people like her.