That Ebola Nurse | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's note: Brant Clifton uses words of others, in part, to explain the Ebola Nurse in his "bare knuckles" Conservative online publication known as The Daily Haymaker.

    Here at Haymaker HQ, we are still scratching our heads over this one. A nurse named Kaci Hickox went to west Africa to help ebola victims. She comes home — after being exposed to this terribly fatal disease — and is pissed off that authorities want to ensure that she doesn't infect all of her friends and neighbors with it.

    She claims that she feels OK and doesn't need to be isolated from everyone. Dr. Craig Spencer, of NYC, thought he felt fine when he came home from Africa and roamed all over his hometown, coming into contact with hundreds, if not thousands of people. He is now being treated for ebola.

    It's hard to understand how someone — clearly feeling a lot of compassion for people suffering from ebola — would have so little compassion for her fellow Americans, protecting THEM from ebola, when she comes home. One writer at National Review describes Ms. Hickox as 'selfish':

    [...] For individuals who in their service abroad exemplified Americans' generosity of spirit, Hickox and Spencer have demonstrated a shocking lack of it since returning back home. Strictly monitored house quarantine — de facto house arrest — is undoubtedly an abrogation of civil liberties. But 21 days of it — lavishly state-funded — to be followed by perfect liberty assuming no problems, seems like a minimal sacrifice to ask of those who put themselves voluntarily in danger. When it comes to a disease that liquefies your internal organs and pushes blood out your eyeballs, "Better safe than sorry" would seem a dictum to which everyone could agree.

    So why Hickox's dissent? There is, first, her insistence on her own wellness: "I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me even though I am in perfectly good health and am feeling strong." That is reassuring — until she suddenly stops feeling strong and is diagnosed with Ebola. The medical consensus is that a person is likely to be free from the threat of an Ebola onset 21 days after being in contact with the virus. Hickox's six healthy days since leaving Sierra Leone are encouraging, but it's a long while until she is out of the woods.

    Second, she has said that she will "self-monitor" and report to the hospital if she believes herself symptomatic. But that claim is far from credible — first, because of Spencer's example, and second, because of her demonstrated disdain for the state's medical protocols. Does she really expect public-health officials to believe that, if she starts to feel weak and achy, she will immediately submit to their aggressive orders — like, you know, quarantine not in her own living room?

    It is a peculiar and repulsive sense of entitlement that is on display in Fort Kent. That a hero abroad can be a menace at home can be, it turns out, rather true of both generals and general physicians.

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( November 4th, 2014 @ 8:56 am )
 
The full story, as I understand it, says she was tested / found to now have it / therefore NO RISK to others.

It is a dangerous disease, no doubt. It is passed by bodily fluids and contact with one having it in their system and dying. NO ONE at Emory has died and progress is being made in research. Emory is some 5 miles from the CDC and WHO. The Carter Center is also in Atlanta and they a focusing on basic health issues like drinking water and parasites.

All three organizations are smart and genuine. If you want to help cure Ebola, contact the Carter Center and offer to support them as they spread cures all over as soon as they are available.

The worst cause of most human disease is overpopulation because we "CAN'T HELP OURSELVES" and don't protect our women from pregnancy and disease to their small children. Either we control population or nature does it in cruel fashions.
( November 2nd, 2014 @ 11:23 am )
 
But what if, on that rare occasion, she is contagious at some point, and just happens to be around people?

This sets a precedent for self-monitoring that may no be the correct approach in these days within a world of too many folks.
( November 2nd, 2014 @ 7:47 am )
 
Your post is typical hysteria over a disease WHICH IS NEVER PASSED UNLESS IT IS FULL BLOWN AND SOMEONE COMES IN CONTACT WITH YOUR BODY FLUIDS!

I graduated Emory University in 1967. They just did a full story in our alumni magazine.

Here are the most recent FACTS:
news.emory.edu



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