I think her 15 minutes of whine are almost up.
When did Ebola turn into a Left vs. Right political cage match? All of a sudden we’ve got an Ebola nurse, Kaci Hickox, reinventing herself as the new lefty “in your face, you stupid hayseeds” Internet scold. She’s got lawyers – the kind of lawyers who visit the White House on occasion – and liberals are rallying around her, insisting that her words must be accepted without question, and anyone who criticizes her in any way is an anti-science boob.
No surprises that liberals would look for any excuse to scream “SHUT UP!” at people they don’t like. This all began as a spat between Ms. Hickox and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who insisted Ms. Hickox be placed in mandatory quarantine after she returned from treating Ebola victims in West Africa. Of course, liberals are happy to have an excuse to beat up a Republican governor, especially one with a confrontational style who might have presidential aspirations.
The reporting on the New Jersey quarantine flap was horrible. Practically no one in the mainstream media bothered to mention that Ms. Hickox was running a fever when she was ushered into quarantine. She was tested with a forehead thermometer – the very same test the CDC has been assuring us, for most of the past year, would be our front line of defense against Ebola carriers arriving at airports. Later she was tested again, and it turned out the original reading of a fever was inaccurate. Hickox claims her body temperature read high because she was upset and flushed during the test. Why the heck is an Ebola nurse who works for the CDC upset by the test she had to know was coming?