HuffPo: Quarantined nurse filing federal lawsuit challenging confinement

[LiberalElite]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/26/kaci-hickox-lawsuit_n_6050848.html


Maybe this is why they let her go home.

[TwilightGardener]

1. They let her go home because as long as she's asymptomatic and has no virus

in her blood, there's no reason why she should be held in New Jersey. That said, I was looking forward to her eventual complaints about low thread count sheets and scratchy towels and string beans when she asked for sugar snap peas.

[tammywammy]

3. Do you really think those are her complaints?

Not the lack of running water, no shower, using a portable toilet, no heat/air conditioning, refusing access to her lawyer, no phone/internet, etc?

[TwilightGardener]

5. I thought she should have been allowed to fly home and have home

quarantine when she arrived there once the fever turned out not to be, and the blood had no virus. That said, she lost all goodwill with me with her angry screed about how she's a hero and nobody else is doing anything about ebola, blah blah, attacking the low-wage state and customs drones just following orders, and crying, and granola bars, etc. I just don't care about her complaints, I really don't. She's not a regular Nancy Nurse, look at her bio and CDC experience, her reaction was outsized and hysterical.

[TexasProgresive]

11. You've never been stressed out and ranted about how you are treated?

Must be one in a million if that's the case.

[TwilightGardener]

12. Not in public, no. I don't write articles about it, have well placed doctor friends and lawyers

at the ready to press my case for me, and have PR-worthy professional photos of myself ready to go for my big 15 minutes. I don't even have a Facebook page, I'm not on Twitter, and I'm just generally not the center of the universe.

[Vinca]

4. They let her go home because Christie realized if she filed her lawsuit it would look bad for him.

This is 100% politically motivated and has nothing to do with medical treatment.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Actually, I believe they screened her with a fever at the airport, in which case, had

that borne out, they were right to take her to a facility--that's sound and responsible medicine. Once the blood test came back negative, that should have been enough to let her travel home, at that point. (Although it's not a conclusive sign of no ebola--Dr. Brantly's first blood test came back negative and he was already symptomatic.)

[Vinca]

9. Perhaps, but we can agree she didn't deserve being isolated in a tent in the parking lot!

[TwilightGardener]

10. I've read conflicting accounts about that outdoor stuff, actually. No, once asymptomatic,

there was no reason not to ship her home to wait out her time.

[Marrah_G]

7. Wow...really.

I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt.

[TwilightGardener]

8. Some people, I don't like.

If that disappoints you, oh well.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. False imprisonment, defamation, invasion of privacy

infliction of emotional distress, negligence