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@AmandaB8: I know people who know her personally. They have said she is very bright and very responsible. I think she is disobeying the quarantine because she is passionate about public health and believes quarantines that don't make sense are bad news for public health. That's my opinion anyway. Going for a bike ride is not the same as riding the subway, though even riding the subway would most likely be 100% fine. I feel very confident she will be self-monitoring and will seek help immediately if she has symptoms. I can't imagine that anyone who cares enough to volunteer their time, risk their own life, and witness firsthand people dying of Ebola, would not take the disease seriously.
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@78h2o: Agreed.
I think she's trying to make a point. Going for an asymptomatic bike ride doesn't hurt anyone. Even if she has a fever, it's not a public health risk unless she stops riding to wipe sweat in someone's eyeball or barf on them.
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@JoJoGirl: Exactly, she's totally trying to make a point. What people are asking of her is unreasonable, so she's trying to fight it (rightly so). I also don't think that has any bearing on whether or not she will follow reasonable guidelines, like self-monitoring.
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@78h2o: That makes me feel better about the situation.
It just always frustrates me when people try to make a point by deliberately breaking rules. It's not a good example to set forth - for anyone.
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I think this New England Journal of Medicine editorial lays out the argument against quarantine well:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1413139 -
They lifted the quarantine. Finally someone comes to their senses..
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@JoJoGirl: Yay!
I also thought this was probably pretty accurate:
“The court is fully aware of the misconceptions, misinformation, bad science and bad information being spread from shore to shore in our country with respect to Ebola,” the judge said. “The Court is fully aware that people are acting out of fear and that this fear is not entirely rational. However, whether that fear is rational or not, it is present and it is real. She should guide herself accordingly.”
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@JoJoGirl: I saw on the news though she has to stay 3 feet away from people or something?
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@IRunForFun: Yeah per the CDC guidelines they are asking her to still follow those general recommendations (no mass transit and a few other things), but can leave her house.
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As a fellow nurse, I would WANT to self quarantine because the last thing I would ever want to do is be responsible or blamed for spreading such a deadly disease to someone else. I don't understand how these medical professionals take ebola so lightly when they first hand saw the devastation in Africa. If the other nurse and doctor who contacted ebola were more responsible themselves ( not taking flights and subways) then this mandatory quarantine probably never would have happened.
Just stay home, take your temperature and have yourself a netflix marathon. It's not that bad!
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