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Maine governor vows to use full extent of authority on Ebola nurse

(Reuters) - Maine Governor Paul LePage vowed on Thursday to use the full extent of his authority in response to a nurse who has treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, after she left her home in Maine and took a bicycle ride despite a quarantine order.

LePage said his office had been in talks overnight Wednesday to work out a deal for how Kaci Hickox, who has tested negative for Ebola, will spend the remaining time until Nov. 10, the period that the state has ordered her to remain at home as she waits out the virus's maximum 21-day incubation period.

"I was ready and willing - and remain ready and willing - to reasonably address the needs of healthcare workers meeting guidelines to assure the public health is protected," LePage, a Republican locked in a tight three-way re-election campaign, said in a statement.

Hickox, 33, returned to the United States last week after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. LePage referred to her not by name, http://news.yahoo.com/maine-governor-vows-full-extent-authority-ebola-nurse-191712151.htmlbut as a person now staying in Fort Kent, near the Canadian border.

LePage said his office would be open to a deal under which Hickox could serve her quarantine under terms that would have allowed a bike ride so long as she remained 3 feet (90 cm) from other people.

Absent an agreement, LePage plans to use "the full extent of his authority allowable by law," his office said in a statement.

Attorneys for Hickox said they had not yet been served with a court order to enforce a 21-day quarantine but remained prepared to fight one if necessary.

Hickox says she is completely healthy and has been monitoring her condition and taking her temperature twice a day.

(Reporting by Scott Malone in Boston; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)




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I'm thinking there is a problem with the Governor's plan....













Not really sure what the solution is but.....

She does not have Ebola. She has tested negative. She is in no way high risk. It's a political farce.

I try to never bash on the anti-immunization crowd because I get it it's an emotional issue and frankly people have the right to protect or not protect their children in this regard however they please.

Science suggest that it is Asians are safe and actually do a greater good for society. Some folks disagree with that and even say the science was wrong.

Science suggest that this lady is of no risk to anybody else. Some folks adjust that science is wrong.

i'll except that fact that science sometimes can be wrong but once proven wrong science will change. But if you're basing your believes not on science but on your gut or something else you could never be proven wrong in that she will never change.

This is a political thing in Maine it's not a healthcare thing.

Damon that reads rough. **** it.

I like the way this is going.

I'm thinker than I drunk I was.

joking and booze aside, here are two things I think about,

for every demand of absolute freedoms, there is always a "yelling fire in a crowded theater" situation that absolutists are willing to consider as exceptions...

but I'd still back allowing Nazis to march in Skokie. Sometimes the ACLU is on your side too. Not easy being unpopular when protecting rights.

Z, this is an interesting dilema

I hate Illinois Nazis

well, natch. that's why it was unpopular for the ACLU to be correct.

yes you, and others too, and without malice. Simply an observation from many years of passion and discussion about freedom and our rights with all kinds of radicals in and around Boston/Cambridge growing up in the "turbulent" 60's and 70's. I used to think I was correct being absolute in my beliefs, but maybe I got beat down as I aged, maybe coopted, or absorbed by the "system", or somehow drifted a bit back to center.

You are making total sense. Do not lose passion or we are doomed, doomed I say!

SMGBOBBYSCOTT LOVES SANTA!!


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exit stage left.................

according to this gem from Victor
http://jezebel.com/study-men-who-sleep-with-over-20-women-have-lower-pros-1651683136

Wilt may have exaggerated a bit or he'd still be among the living.

Believe more people will get sick with and possible die from the flu than ebola.
Should we force quarantine on all those people too?

I was in Canada this week. To get through Canadian customs, I had to answer some Ebola-related questions. (I guess because I came from an Ebola-infected country!)
When I returned to the USA, I did not have to answer anything Ebola-related. Neither US or Canadian customs were checking anyone for fevers.

The whole Ebola panic seems just a bit media manufactured.

This is one of the only people in the world we know does not have ebola and is not contagous. To have the public or politicians want to quarentine her is a microcasm of the hysterea and lack of critical thinking skills.

I say quarentine that liberal vegetarian hippy loud mouthed BEOTCH....
EVERY SOLDIER THAT GOES OVER TO THAT HURTIN CONTINENT HAS TO QUARENTINE FOR 21 DAYS....

WHAT??? Makes her any different......

The soldiers are just guarding and doing logistical supply stuff....that red headed CLOWN was in the tents w/ EBOLA VICTIMS...i.e. in the thick of all the
fluids flying and sneezing sick people are.

Who the f$ck wouldnt want a "three week paid vacation" at home after being in that $HIT HOLE
LIBERIA for months???

She needs a big purple beet stuck into her flapping trap pie hole...

if that is who is pushing to quarentine her.

Yet how many people are scared to call in sick for work and go in anyway while highly contageous? The virus that started in the KC area that has killed some kids is much more contageous and has spread like wild fire. The pandemic prep done previously for bird flu etc was widely made fun of because the pandemic never happened (catch 22). now we want to quarranteen a person we know not to have ebola. Hysterical much?

Do you think her "boyfriend" tapped that mouthy broad after todays' " infamous bike ride" ?

Wore a raincoat? Or not?

So.....I take it you know for a Fact that she was NOT being paid by the CDC ( her Employer ) while doing her DWOB stint??

I have heard MANY " beliefs " from doctors in the HC business and reports ARE mixed as to how early on a person could be a carrier without showing signs of the disease as well as the length of time necessary to monitor someone thought to have been exposed. It's more of a " common sense" thing as much as anything.....she's a selfish self centered twit IMHO

Crying = frying.

This person knows way more about Ebola than any of us or our politicians.

Sometimes well meaning people through fear and ignorance cause the very issue they are trying to mitigate to get worse.

If you really believe enlisting in the military is remotely similar to accepting a job at the CDC then I accept the fact that you either hold the average fed employee in high esteem like the average military folks or you hold all military folks in contempt like you do Feds. I don't beleive you do nor should you. Enlisting in the military is a much bigger commitment where they own you 24/7. You give up some of your rights. The CDC is a job. One can send you to buttemunch Montana because they feel like it. The other can send the job there but you decide what you want to do. So let's not be silly here.

As for the judicial branch I'm not really sure what you are trying to say. I know you have no faith in that branch nor do I. So if you are saying they suck and their decisions are made on law rather than science I agree with you.

I know you consider yourself as very knowledgeable in the area of health care and health care delivery because you know people that work in health care. Then you know that often things are not definitive. The practice of health care involves risk assessment and proper mitigation. Proper mitigation involves balance appropriate with the risk. There is such a thing as over mitigation.

I'm more worried about the virus that is putting our children in ICUs a cross the country and likely killng along the way. It is much more contagious, much more prevlant and will likely kill more in this country than Ebola ever will. I had a long discussion about this with a couple docs at a premier facility in the country. It's scary.

Ebola is a press/political darling. Combine fear with fuel and a little bit of laymans knowledge and you get convinced someone is selfish or evil or stupid although they were knowledgeable about Ebola long before you were and they cared enough to attempt to do something about it at great personal risk. No one knows her intent but her. You write it off as resume building. I don't. There are better and safer ways to build a resume. She didn't ask for the Spotlight like our politicians she just responded and refused to sit down and shut up. And folks vilify her and assume bad intent on her part? To beleive your version of her takes quite a leap in logic. It emotional. It's fear.

I'm all for self monitoring and testing but this person knows way more than us and deserves the benefit of the doubt. We don't want to stifle folks from attempting to control this outbreak or it will find its way here.

This remind me of post 911 when so many were willing to give up their rights out of fear and those that were not were unpatriotic morons with something to hide. Yet on other issues those very same people are absolutists.

It is very similar and more intrusive. You are suspending an individual's rights supposedly for the greater good. You are either imprisoning them in a facility or their home. To me that's equal or greater.

I'm actually ok with it if they have Ebola. But they don't. So what's the next thing you might have that allows the government to lock you up even though you have no symptoms and have tested negative multiple times?

What about the other virus folks are ignoring. If your kid has been around another kid or a school that has exposure should your family get quaranteened at gunpoint even though you test negative and have no symptoms? Where does it end?

It's pure politics and drama. There are equally deadly more contagous viruses amongst us. This one is sexy to the politicians the others are not. We are treating this one differently. Hmmm. Again we make fun of the reaction to a potential pandemic that was avoided but go ape**** over this. why?

By the way there is an argument that would make me change my mind nobody's made it yet though. :)