Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

Nurse Kaci Hickox has been put under mandatory quarantine by the state of New Jersey after returning from helping Ebola patients in Africa.  New Jersey, New York and Illinois are forcing health workers returning from Africa to be isolated.  I think this is a gross over reaction and is a decision based on fear and not scientific facts.  It is like what they say about war:  The first casualty is truth.  The truth is that the nurse is not sick as Chris Christie claimed.  She is also not contagious  because she does not have symptoms nor fever.  She has been tested twice for Ebola and has been negative both times.  All these facts are ignored and she is being held against her will.

Chris Christie is not protecting the public by making false statements about a person he knows nothing about.  He is causing more fear and hysteria among the public with his order.  He is not a doctor, he has no right to make medical decisions against the advice of infectious disease experts.  These mandatory quarantines only fan more fear.  Already health care workers at Bellevue Hospital, where Dr. Craig Spencer is being treated, are being refused food service!  By the way, I think the only person who may have reason to worry about getting infected by Dr. Spencer would be his girl friend.  Again, this disease require extreme close contact with the patient or his body fluid.  Nobody at the bowling ally or subway is at risk.  Even Duncan, the patient who died, did not infect anyone from his family.  This is even after his treatment was long delayed.

The flu, pneumonia, meningitis, etc. all are way more likely to kill in this country than Ebola.  So let's get our appropriate vaccines and practice good hygiene.  That's the message politicians should get out.  They should not spread false rumors and fan fear.