DRAMA Nurse Who Has Returned From Ebola Stricken Says She Plans to Defy Quarantine

The Daily Beast reports:

Maine State Police were dispatched to enforce the quarantine of nurse Kaci Hickox after she made it clear she would not stay at home for 21 days. “I am not going to sit around and be bullied by politicians and forced to stay in my home when I am not a risk to the American public,” Hickox said on Wednesday. Hickox returned from West Africa last week and was quarantined against her will in New Jersey, despite testing negative for Ebola. Maine Gov. Paul Lepage said law enforcement was needed to implement the “unwilling” nurse’s quarantine, so he sent in the cops. “We hoped that the health care worker would voluntarily comply with these protocols, but this individual has stated publicly she will not abide by the protocols,” LePage said in a statement. Hickox said she may sue Maine if the state continues to enforce her quarantine past Thursday. “I will go to court to attain my freedom," said Hickox, if the quarantine is not lifted by Thursday morning.

Some on the wacky left have called Hickox "heroic" because she treated Ebola patients in West Africa?  But what is so heroic about a woman, who refuses to stay at home, watch TV and surf the internet for 21 days, to reasonably insure that she is not infected with the gruesome Ebola virus.

It would appear that Stanford Doctor Colin Bucks, who was recently in Liberia (SEE: BREAKING: Stanford Doctor Under Qarantine in California After Treating Ebola Patients in Liberia), is handling his situation with a lot less drama and a lot more common sense.

As I have already argued, given the nature of Ebola, short-term quarantines are one of the few government actions that I can support (SEE:NY and NJ Institute Mandatory Quarantines for At-Risk Travelers from Ebola Hot Spots: A Libertarian Perspective).

-RW