#Breaking: The “Ebola Nurse” Wants Us To STOP Calling Her The “Ebola Nurse”….
She’s baaaaaaack!
Kaci Hickox, aka “The Ebola Nurse” wants YOU to stop calling her that….NOW!
Buzzfeed.com reports:
Hickox, who returned to the U.S. after caring for Ebola patients in West Africa, has been very vocal in her criticism of some states’ Ebola quarantine laws.
She wrote:
“I never had Ebola. I never had symptoms of Ebola. I tested negative for Ebola the first night I stayed in New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s private prison in Newark. I am now past the incubation period – meaning that I will not develop symptoms of Ebola.
I never had Ebola, so please stop calling me “the Ebola Nurse” – now!”
After confronting Christie, she defied quarantine laws in her home state of Maine, forcing the governor to seek legal action to enforce the quarantine. However, Hickox settled the lawsuit with the state and was allowed to travel freely in public during her 21-day monitoring period.
“I was quarantined against my will by overzealous politicians after I volunteered to go and treat people affected by Ebola in West Africa,” Hickox wrote. “My liberty, my interests and consequently my civil rights were ignored because some ambitious governors saw an opportunity to use an age-old political tactic: fear.”
She accused Christie and Maine Gov. Paul LePage of disregarding medical science and manipulating the public by “multiplying the existing fear and misinformation about Ebola” in the hopes of advancing their careers and proclaiming themselves “the protectors of the people.”
There’s more to the story! Check it out here!!
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