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  1. Do you support Kaci Hickox?

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She is the nurse who returned from Africa and was placed in quarantine despite not being sick. I'm not going to give all the details here, they are readily available online. I support her position and hope you do too. She is not sick, she should not be quarentined.

Off to work. I just wanted to say though that the division represented in the poll results is more than a little disturbing.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.
I just asked this on another thread, but there are now so many.....and I'd like to better understand something.

Did KH test negative for Ebola before or after she refused to self-quarantine? Did she refuse to take her temps (or have DOH take them for her?) before or after she tested negative?

I'd just like to be clear on the timeline; while I think the treatment she received was a royal screw upon her return from W.Africa, I'm not sure she's behaving well at the moment.

The public statements from her are certainly not very reassuring to the public at all.

According to the reports that have been offered on AN she was detained at the airport and then quarantined against her will and counter to the scientific and medical recommendations. She lost her freedom exclusively because people were afraid, even though their fear was unfounded.

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Why should people support her. She's an arrogant ***** who is putting others at risk.

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Why should people support her. She's an arrogant ***** who is putting others at risk.

Exactly how is she "putting others at risk"?

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It is part of our job as nurses, in my humble opinion, to help put fears to rest. This is a horrific frightening disease that we know little about. She should stop acting like a baby and use the quarantine time to reflect, rest, exercise and just "be". On the other hand, if it is affecting her financially, the nursing community, her employer, our government, should compensate her for the forced (but needed) quarantine. Why take a chance...(like the doctor did). This is far far worse than the flu in so many ways.

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Why should people support her. She's an arrogant ***** who is putting others at risk.

Really? Really??? Did you really just say that she's an "arrogant *****?"

Maybe she is arrogant. Maybe she is the b-word (my guess is you are male simply because you used this sexist terminology). These "qualities" you describe, however, are irrelevant.

She is using science to base her decisions on. So... this makes her an "arrogant *****" I think not.

I do think she could have a used a more appropriate approach in her response to the politicians that are using her as a (convenient and timely) target by which appease their constituents, given how heated and misunderstood this disease is.

Do I believe she is incorrect based on the science? No.

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
Really? Really??? Did you really just say that she's an "arrogant *****?"

Maybe she is arrogant. Maybe she is the b-word (my guess is you are male simply because you used this sexist terminology). These "qualities" you describe, however, are irrelevant.

She is using science to base her decisions on. So... this makes her an "arrogant *****" I think not.

I do think she could have a used a more appropriate approach in her response to the politicians that are trying to appease their constituents (given how heated and misunderstood this disease is), but do I believe she is incorrect based on the science? No.

We still have a long way to go when it comes to women's rights. In this country, if you're a female and speak up against "conventional wisdom," you are deserving of scorn and ridicule.

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We still have a long way to go when it comes to women's rights. In this country, if you're a female and speak up against "conventional wisdom," you are deserving of scorn and ridicule.
Daggum uppity females, anyway.:)Ebola does not fall (yet) into the "conventional wisdom" category, but I wonder if this nurse would have been met with terms such as "arrogant b-word" if she had been male, or a physician. Regardless, judging by the chatter on talk radio on my daily commutes, it seems the public is ready to burn her at the stake. In her shoes I probably would handle things differently on the PR front (as a former medical traveler to African countries), especially since we in the west have much more to learn about this disease, and its transmission. I probably would have self-quarantined. But given what we know thus far, she is not necessarily incorrect.
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Dear SirI and Trauma, Regarding all these edited posts in this thread: (thankingjeebusIamnotamoderatortoday).

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Specializes in Acute Care Pediatrics.

I just don't understand the rationale of the quarantine. You can not quarantine well people.

Nurses, how often do we take care of some seriously infectious crap? I mean, I just took care of TB a few weeks ago! Meningitis not long after that. Mono. AIDS. Oh, and the flu. If I was forced to quarantine myself for three weeks (with no pay, mind you - because we all know that our hospitals aren't going to give us PTO for this) every time I took care of something that could kill me or someone else if I were to contract it, I may never leave the house again (which sometimes sounds appealing.)

We are letting our fear take over and dictate our policies and laws. There is no place in this country for medical martial law. We can not quarantine the well. What if this thing actually ramps up in the USA and we are thrown into the front lines? It won't take long before we are all locked up in our homes and there is no one left to take care of anyone.

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CDC policy is law and they should respect it

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
I just don't understand the rationale of the quarantine. You can not quarantine well people.

Nurses, how often do we take care of some seriously infectious crap? I mean, I just took care of TB a few weeks ago! Meningitis not long after that. Mono. AIDS. Oh, and the flu. If I was forced to quarantine myself for three weeks (with no pay, mind you - because we all know that our hospitals aren't going to give us PTO for this) every time I took care of something that could kill me or someone else if I were to contract it, I may never leave the house again (which sometimes sounds appealing.)

We are letting our fear take over and dictate our policies and laws. There is no place in this country for medical martial law. We can not quarantine the well. What if this thing actually ramps up in the USA and we are thrown into the front lines? It won't take long before we are all locked up in our homes and there is no one left to take care of anyone.

Well said.

There are other illness in this country that we attend to that we run the risk of catching everyday.

If anything, she was FORCED into a quarantine; she didn't refuse, nor did she test positive.

I would be raging against the machine, myself, not being soft spoken at all...

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