Maine Med Assn calls Kaci a hero

[FLAlleycat]

I posted this elsewhere but then thought that it really deserved its own headline.

State health leaders criticize Maine CDC over Kaci Hickox quarantine - The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram

And I couldn't agree more!

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

Her civil rights should not trump even the slightest risk of transmission.The virus is mutating.

[BostonFNP, APRN]

Her civil rights should not trump even the slightest risk of transmission.The virus is mutating.

Wow. Her civil right to not be detained against her will is subject to the remotest risk of endangering lives through viral transmission.

Yet in another thread you argue that your right to carry trumps the much more significant risk to lives that firearms pose.

Which is it?

And how exactly has the virus mutated within his one individual that has twice tested negative for it?

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[macawake, MSN]

Her civil rights should not trump even the slightest risk of transmission.The virus is mutating.

What do you mean by saying that it’s mutating? It’s a RNA virus, so mutations are pretty much par for the course.

Do you support depriving people of their freedom for any other what ifs, speculative maybes that may happen next year, ten years from now or never, for any other diseases than EVD or for any other phenomena?

Would you be willing to give up your civil rights/your freedom for something that has a 1/100.000.000 risk of ever happening? That would be a very slight risk, but a risk nevertheless. Both you and I or any other random person, have a higher risk of becoming murderers in the future than the hypothetical odds I mentioned, perhaps the authorities should lock you and I away for life so that we don’t kill someone. Take no risks…

It seems to me that you don’t put a very high value on your freedom and your civil rights, or at least not on someone else’s civil rights.

We can only deal with the here and now, and use the knowledge/science that we have available at this time. That science does not support placing an asymptomatic person under quarantine. An asymptomatic person isn’t contagious.

I think that it’s genuinely frightening that so many seem to regard civil rights a commodity/luxury that can easily be sacrificed at the first sign of a threat. It doesn’t even seem to matter if that threat is real, hypothetical or completely imaginary.

[elkpark]

What do you mean by saying that it's mutating? It's a RNA virus, so mutations are pretty much par for the course.

Do you support depriving people of their freedom for any other what ifs, speculative maybes that may happen next year, ten years from now or never, for any other diseases than EVD or for any other phenomena?

Would you be willing to give up your civil rights/your freedom for something that has a 1/100.000.000 risk of ever happening? That would be a very slight risk, but a risk nevertheless. Both you and I or any other random person, have a higher risk of becoming murderers in the future than the hypothetical odds I mentioned, perhaps the authorities should lock you and I away for life so that we don't kill someone. Take no risks...

It seems to me that you don't put a very high value on your freedom and your civil rights, or at least not on someone else's civil rights.

We can only deal with the here and now, and use the knowledge/science that we have available at this time. That science does not support placing an asymptomatic person under quarantine. An asymptomatic person isn't contagious.

I think that it's genuinely frightening that so many seem to regard civil rights a commodity/luxury that can easily be sacrificed at the first sign of a threat. It doesn't even seem to matter if that threat is real, hypothetical or completely imaginary.

I'm reminded of the well-known quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."