New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday defended the mandatory quarantines in New Jersey and New York for all health workers who return from treating Ebola patients in West Africa.
“I think this is a policy that will become a national policy sooner rather than later,” Christie said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We have taken this action, and I have no second thoughts about it.”
Christie said that Centers for Disease Control protocol on Ebola was a “moving target” and that he thinks the CDC will eventually adopt the mandatory quarantine.
The governor said he doesn’t have confidence in the CDC’s “voluntary system with folks who may or may not comply.”
“I don’t think, when you’re dealing with something as serious as this, that you can count on a voluntary system. This is government’s job,” he said.
Fox host Chris Wallace asked Christie about Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci’s concern that mandatory quarantines could discourage people from volunteering in West Africa.
Christie said he didn’t think the quarantines would keep people from heading to Africa.
“I believe that folks who want to take that step and are willing to volunteer also understand that it’s in their interest and the public health interest to have a 21-day period thereafter they’ve been directly exposed to people with the virus,” he said.
Watch a clip via Christie’s office:
Fascist pig presidential candidate just harmed the effort to stop Ebola at the source.
Once again Christie proves his conservative credentials, by following General Order 3 of the Conservative Rules: If you don’t like it, if it scares you, if you don’t understand it, then lock it up or kill it, or lock it up and kill it, especially if it’s from ‘over there’. You know, like we do with Black people over here.
And make sure you tell your followers that your opinion trumps the knowledge of actual experts.
i’m surprised he didn’t suggest lane closures of the transatlantic bridge from west africa.
Oh, and just for the record Governor, in order to have a second thought, you need to have had a first thought. Gut reactions from the lizard portion of your brain applied to complex issues don’t count as thoughts.
Christie having “no second thoughts”? Gasp, quelle surprise.