The nurse confined to a Newark, N.J. hospital due to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s new mandatory quarantine for health workers returning from West Africa slammed the governor’s new policy on Sunday.
“This is an extreme that is really unacceptable, and I feel like my basic human rights have been violated,” Kaci Hickox told CNN over the phone. “To put me through this emotional and physical stress is completely unacceptable.”
Hickox also criticized Christie for his comment that she was “obviously ill.”
“For him — a politician who’s trusted and respected — to make a statement that’s categorically not true is just unacceptable and appalling,” she said.
She said that fear sparked by Ebola has gotten out of control.
“I just feel like fear is winning right now, and when fear wins, everyone loses,” Hickox said.
Well, great. We’re back in the days of Ryan White, panicking as a society when the people who actually know something about the situation are futilely trying to make us understand there’s no reason to panic. You have fools like Trump yelling crazy-ass stuff and scoundrels like Christie exploiting the situation to seem tough and decisive, abusing the best people among us when he damn well knows better. I try not to make judgments about my own country as a society when we’re a mass of individuals, but when the official response is fucked then it’s kind of inescapable to think the society is equally fucked. I swear there are days when I want to apply for citizenship in Canada as a cultural refugee.
Good for her, except for when she called Christie “trusted and respected.” Maybe she does have a fever.
You have to love it when GOP Pols take it upon themselves to unskew science.
Time for Fat Bastard to be quarantined until 20JAN2017…
She was probably doing air quotes. I know I would be.