Nurse Ratchet-Hickox Endangers Neighbors With Her Selfish Brat Attitude

Do we really? At what exact point does a person become contagious…the minute the fever hits? What if they happen to be in a store next to someone, and sneeze within 3 feet of them, during the exact time the fever hits and they become contagious?

Hickox adds, ” Its not like influenza. We don’t require families when someone is positive for the flu.”

The naivety in that statement screams out. Did she actually compare influenza to Ebola?

The debate not be between whether it’s political or scientific, but between being cautious or naive. And I think Nurse Hickox is extremely naive.

There is something uniquely jarring about a display of selfish insolence from someone who is so praiseworthy in other respects.

“Our outgoing warm thoughts have been doused by the waves of complaining she has treated us to since setting foot back on American soil,” says Mark Davis of Townhall.
 

If Ms. Hickox wishes to see what anger looks like, she should visit Twitter. The country isn’t enjoying her griping. She showed selfless devotion to her fellow man in going to Sierra Leone. That attribute did not make it back through customs.

Instead, we get lawsuit threats and the same kind of snotty condescension that has us loving the CDC so much right now.

On a tour of network news shows Wednesday morning, Ms. Hickox demanded that an under-educated America worship at the altar of the “science” that she invokes to argue for her immediate release from the constraints of public safety. She brandishes her absence of symptoms in an attempt to escape a 21-day time-out that would provide substantial reassurance to a public rocked not just by Ebola but by the rank ineptitude of government in responding to it.

We are thrilled that she feels “absolutely great,” as she told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” We would feel great as well if she were to accept a sensible quarantine as a result of close proximity to people with a deadly disease.

But while Ms. Hickox worked hard to help Ebola patients feel better”,

Ms. Hickox and anyone similarly misguided should know that quarantines are not solely matters of science. They are matters of policy and pragmatism based on what we know from science and what we may not know.

We do not know when within the 21 days an exposed person may become symptomatic. Shall we allow Ms. Hickox to bowl and dine out until the moment her fever spikes? And when it does, “
 

“Self-quarantines do not work. Actual doctors— some of them with press passes— have returned to America unable to restrain themselves from gallavanting among us.

Are we to be treated to a parade of whining caregivers who leave their posts in the Ebola zone only to return with armies of lawyers waiting to assert their “right” to put us at risk?

Let us stipulate that Ms. Hickox poses very little risk to her little Maine Hamlet and the nation of 320 million that lies beyond. But we do things every day to reduce even tiny risks. We build storm shelters to address the tiny risk of tornadoes. We warn our kids against the tiny risk of abduction.”
 

This repellent attitude threatens to color our image of the motivation for going in the first place. Is it an exotic adventure? Is it a salve for liberal white guilt? Is it a story to tell at cocktail parties?

That sounds deeply dismissive, but Ms. Hickox’s bellyaching does not call to mind the caring accommodation one usually associates with health care workers.

And while I do not attach politics to everything, I will make anyone a bet: not one conservative health care worker will return home fussing and moaning about a 21-day quarantine.

Whatever her motivations, Ms. Hickox should know three things: She is draping her proud profession in a cloak of dark public disapproval, she is alienating the good people living around her who ..and if she goes to court, she will lose.”

And now, in order to not generalize all young nurses into a pool of selfish brats, we need other nurses to speak out for the American people and against Nurse Hickox.