Christie stands by mandatory quarantine for health care workers treating Ebola
OCTOBER 26, 2014, 8:50 AM LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014, 4:48 PM
BY MELISSA HAYES AND CHRISTOPHER MAAG
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Christie speaking in Toms River Thursday.
“We’ve taken this action and I have absolutely no second thoughts about it,” Christie said on “Fox News Sunday” in response to a question about concerns raised by Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was quarantined upon landing at Newark Liberty Airport on Friday, having returned from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.
Hickox, who lives in Maine and worked for Doctors Without Borders, complained that the new state protocols were disorganized, and said she had no symptoms and should not be held and treated like a criminal in a first-person account published in the Dallas Morning News on Saturday.
It is like he took a heroic woman and put her in solitary confinememt. What was her crime? Why is she being punished?
As we have seen over the last few weeks, health care workers are by far the highest risk. If these people ell compelled to go and make themselves feel better by treating Ebola patients, then good for them. However, the health and safety of the general population, as well as the healthcare workers that might have to treat them and clean their vomit and shit when they return infected, is more important than her selfish feelings of being mistreated.
He needs to find a safe way out of this. Do not double down.
Let her out of jail.
When did she go the jail? Did I miss something?
She is being confined against her will so she is in”jail”.
she or anybody else does not have a right to endanger others
Now according to Christie she can do quarantine at homeNot having aright to endanger others is all well and fine so why is it we do not quarantine those who refuse to immunize there children?
Because Ebola is not like almost every other communicable health condition. It is far more communicable than AIDS, and it has the potential ability to get out of control and devastate a population. These quarantines pose a fine line between the greater good of society v. individual rights.
#9 nonsense it is no more communicable than Aids as they are both transmitted by the exchange of bodily fluids and hundreds of thousands or more have died from Aids.
You clearly haven’t been doing the research. Unfortunately, much of what the public has learned has been from political spin-masters. AIDS is actually quite difficult to catch, even with full sexual contact. You can’t getting it from, say, getting sneezed on or kissing (the French variety). You can, however, contract Ebola, just like the thousands of cases in West Africa and those who have contracted it that have received US-based hospitalization, from far less invasive contact. Yes, you can catch it from getting sneezed on if the person is contagious. Take for instance, the NYC doctor. Unless he’s hiding something from his girlfriend, I don’t think he was having sex with his Ebola patients. He would appear to have contracted it from some degree of being in close proximity and touch.