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Liar liar pants on fire (Gov Christie)
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.
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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"?
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Christie: "...the government’s job is to protect the safety and health of our citizens."
"Except for the tens of thousands of Americans who are victims of GUNZ every year," he forgot to add.
