Kaci Hickox Is Definitely Not Going to Follow Those Quarantine Rules
Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was placed in quarantine for three days upon returning from treating Ebola in Sierra Leone despite testing negative for Ebola, has been placed under a more relaxed quarantine in her Maine home. Still smelling traces of bullshit and paranoia, Hickox will not be following the updated quarantine protocol.
Hickox has been very vocal about her treatment and the treatment of health workers returning from West Africa. She and her lawyer sat down (well, she Skyped in from isolation in Maine) with Matt Lauer on Today, telling him that she had been following the voluntary isolation guidelines so far, but that she didn’t plan on following them throughout the quarantine period, which ends on November 10. Via USA Today:
“I don’t plan on sticking to the guidelines,” Hickox tells TODAY’s Matt Lauer. “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, who shows no symptoms of the deadly virus, says she believes the quarantine policy is “not scientifically nor constitutionally just.”
When Lauer asked her if she understood that Dr. Craig Spencer’s case left its mark on the psyche of public officials of such a massive city, she responded that she understood that “it has created a lot of fear, but we still have to make policy based on evidence” before calling out the disorganization and lack of leadership she witnessed while at Newark.
She then announced that if Maine’s quarantine restrictions on her are not lifted by Thursday, she will take legal action to fight for her freedom.
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