Quarantined Ebola Nurse Kaci Hickox to Be Released by New Jersey

[uppityperson]

About damn time and I hope she sues them. And wtf, when she has time to reflect, she'll understand the quarantine? Oh Christie you patronizing asshole, she has and does already.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/quarantined-ebola-nurse-kaci-hickox-released-jersey/story?id=26479917

New Jersey has decided to release a nurse who was fighting an order that forcibly quarantined her after she returned from Africa where she treated Ebola patients.

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Hickox, who has tested negative for the lethal virus, was isolated under New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's policy of a 21-day mandatory quarantine for health care workers returning from helping Ebola patients in West Africa.
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The New Jersey Department of Health issued a statement this morning that Hickox has been "symptom free for the last 24 hours," and that it decided to discharge her after consulting with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Hickox's release appeared to be a reversal by the Christie administration. The governor defended the mandatory 21-day quarantine order on Sunday. Christie, who was in Florida today, said that "when she (Hickox) has time to reflect, she'll understand" the quarantine, according to the Associated Press.

[msanthrope]

1. Christie fucked with the wrong redhead. nt

[LondonReign2]

4. Proud to be juror #4

At least the alerter will get a nice break:
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Christie fucked with the wrong redhead. nt
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What does the color of her hair have to do with it? Redhead's are regularly discriminated against, and stereotyped. This is offensive to fellow redheads and should be hidden.

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[msanthrope]

6. Wow...thank you juror #4! I'm guessing I shouldn't post anything from South Park

about gingers. There might be a shitstorm.

[Kber]

7. It's a quote from her boyfriend

Ok, I think he said "mess with" not "fuck with".
But the essential meaning is the same.

[longship]

2. I would support quarantining all Christie supporters.

Not. Just for gest. However, maybe many would not blame me.

GOTV 2014!

[marym625]

3. I hope she files criminal charges

What an awesome woman!

[11 Bravo]

5. The Bulbous Bully demonstrates what we alrady knew ...

When the supposed victim fights back, bullies fold their tents and piss themselves (Republican bullies also must make a quick emergency dash into the loving arms of FoxNoise).

[uppityperson]

8. Did you see my Liar liar pants on fire thread?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025722752

98.6 is a "high fever" and no ebola symptoms means she is "symptomatic" and you didn't "reverse your decision"
and it was the "CDC and medical officials" that "hospitalized" her and being involuntarily held without due process is like being "late for a plane"?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/nyregion/nurse-in-newark-to-be-allowed-to-finish-ebola-quarantine-at-home-christie-says.html?_r=0

I didn’t reverse my decision,” Governor Christie said from the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Fla., where he is campaigning for Gov. Rick Scott. “She hadn’t had any symptoms for 24 hours. And she tested negative for Ebola. So there was no reason to keep her. The reason she was put into the hospital in the first place was because she was running a high fever and was symptomatic.”

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But Mr. Christie remained adamant that there had been reason to quarantine Ms. Hickox in a tent at University Hospital in Newark, with a portable toilet, but no shower or television. “She was obviously ill enough that the C.D.C. and medical officials hospitalized her and gave her an Ebola test,” Mr. Christie said on Monday. “They don’t do that just for fun. That’s a very specific, difficult, expensive test to do.”

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Mr. Christie then compared Ms. Hickox’s plight to that of any airline traveler. “Any of us have seen people who are traveling and they’ve been stopped, whether they are late for a plane or whatever they are doing, they get upset and angry,” he said.

98.6 is a "high fever" and no ebola symptoms means she is "symptomatic" and you didn't reverse your decision but it was the" CDC and medical officials" that "hospitalized" her and being involuntarily locked up is like being "late for a plane"?

[Kber]

9. Was going to post something similar.

She just spent time in hell, actually trying to fight the ebola outbreak. Does anyone thing she's really scared on Chris Christie??

Puleese!