Judge rejects Ebola quarantine for nurse

[uppityperson]

Yay for civil rights!

http://news.yahoo.com/life-goes-nurse-standoff-over-ebola-053514854.html


FORT KENT, Maine (AP) — A Maine judge gave nurse Kaci Hickox the OK to go wherever she pleases, handing state officials a defeat Friday in their bid to restrict her movements as a precaution against Ebola.

In a case that has come to define the clash between personal freedom and fear of disease, Judge Charles C. LaVerdiere ruled Hickox must continue daily monitoring and cooperate with health officials if she chooses to travel. The judge said there's no need to restrict her movements because she's not showing symptoms of Ebola.

In his ruling, the judge thanked Hickox for her service in Africa and wrote that "people are acting out of fear and that this fear is not entirely rational." Maine Gov. Paul LePage disagreed with the judge's decision, but said the state will follow the law.
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"The court is fully aware of the misconceptions, misinformation, bad science and bad information being spread from shore to shore in our country with respect to Ebola," he wrote. "The court is fully aware that people are acting out of fear and that this fear is not entirely rational."

[Cal Carpenter]

1. K & R

"The court is fully aware of the misconceptions, misinformation, bad science and bad information being spread from shore to shore in our country with respect to Ebola," he wrote. "The court is fully aware that people are acting out of fear and that this fear is not entirely rational."

[uppityperson]

4. +

[Fred Sanders]

2. The law always sides with the science, ebola Governor Lepage is more an idiot than I thought.

Where did the ebola governor think he was, in the deep south, the only place were firmly held beliefs trumps science?

Official judicial ruling after a full hearing, based on the EVIDENCE, not the fear....end of story?

[Logical]

3. Good!