Ebola Docs and Nurses Care About Africans, Don’t Care About Americans

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We’re told ad nauseam that the medical personnel who go to Africa are heroes. And that’s fine. I have no objection to them doing their humanitarian thing and then writing a bestselling book about it.

But now that Madam Ebola is in town, it’s hard to miss the fact that these people might care about Africans, but they certainly don’t care about Americans.

The city’s first Ebola patient initially lied to authorities about his travels around the city following his return from treating disease victims in Africa, law-enforcement sources said.

Dr. Craig Spencer at first told officials that he isolated himself in his Harlem apartment — and didn’t admit he rode the subways, dined out and went bowling until cops looked at his MetroCard the sources said.

“He told the authorities that he self-quarantined. Detectives then reviewed his credit-card statement and MetroCard and found that he went over here, over there, up and down and all around,” a source said.

Spencer finally ’fessed up when a cop “got on the phone and had to relay questions to him through the Health Department,” a source said.

So he lied. He couldn’t be trusted to self-quarantine which means none of them can be. Meanwhile Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox is continuing her public tantrum and extinguishing whatever media manufactured sympathy the public had for her.

Defiant nurse Kaci Hickox vowed to break a mandatory quarantine order that would keep her inside her Maine home for much of the next three weeks.

Hickox said more appropriate measures would include self-monitoring by taking her temperature twice a day and getting medical attention if she began to show symptoms of Ebola.

“I would go back,” said Hickox. “This has been a bit of a nightmare for me but my work in Sierra Leone for four weeks was amazing and I feel privileged to have been able to help fight this battle. I do plan on going back in fact, it’s not just ‘will I,’ it’s more of a when.”

There’s a stench of egomania to Hickox’s language. She’s willing to compromise the public safety of Americans so she can have her fun while she’s stateside and then go back to Africa to feel “privileged”. For her being told to stay at home is a nightmare, but not the risk of creating an epidemic in this country.

Spencer has already proven that these people cannot be trusted. There’s no reason to trust Kaci Hickox after her obnoxious and thoughtless attitude.

  • Pete

    Save articles on nurse Kaci Hickox, Dr. Craig Spencer, Mr Duncan and the military service member quarantine.

    You will not win an argument with a die-hard liberal. But having those articles and presenting them today, tomorrow or a future date will prevent the same liberal from persuading people, who had not given it much thought until that time or had not hear of it.

    The stark juxtaposition of the professionalism of the military versus the histrionics of certain medical professionals will do the ‘talking’.

    It is more likely that a medical professional will spread disease than a military service member. All that need to be done is to document it and remind people of it from time to time.

    The Liberals and their policies will take ‘damage over time‘.

  • Pete

    Wild Kaci Hickox

    • kasandra

      I’m glad her “personal autonomy” for 21 days is a higher value, in her mind, to the health, lives and safety of her fellow Americans. Pretty selfish, don’t you think? I hope prospective future employers remember her name and conduct when she applies for jobs with them.

      • Pete

        Willd Bill Hickock >> Wild Kaci Hickox.

        It just immediately came to mind. It took a while for there to be law and order in the Wild West. It is going to take a while for there to be law and order in immigration, which includes returning citizens.
        But as the whole nation knows Kaci is Above the Law.

  • Race_Dissident

    I’ve said it before and elsewhere, and I’ll repeat it here and now: anti-white racism is the defining characteristic of the New Left (which is now the mainstream Left). So if an AWR Leftist takes out a few YTs with an African disease, this is merely social justice and recompense for white historical “oppression” of blacks. In a sense, these sanctimonious exhibitionists are biological weapons of the Left.

  • bob e

    ‘the stench of egomania’ perfect phrase. mebbe’ throw in a dose of privilege, & you have the total snot ..

    • Pete

      So we have egomaniac liberal nurses, irresponsible Doctors without borders & lying administration officials.

      At page 7, Section 2.2.4 (“Ebola Characterization”), the Defense Department’s BAA explains that Ebola is “aerostable” and, since other filoviruses infect through “the respiratory route,” it is at least theoretically possible that Ebola could, too.

  • Gee

    I did notice that ALL of the military personnel in Africa will go through quarantine even if the leftists won’t.

    • glpage

      Considering most military personnel tend to vote conservative this isn’t a surprise.

      • Gee

        Still trying to figure out why they were sent in the first place. They aren’t medics or even support troops – they are Air Assault Infantry.

        • Pete

          Do you have a link to a news story?

          I figured they would be military medical staff or combat engineers (to build facilities).

  • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

    One hates to think the worse of people but I couldn’t help to wonder. It doesn’t seem accidental that this doctor put New Yorkers at risk. One has to wonder if he doesn’t care about our getting Ebola or actually wants us to get Ebola. This may be a ploy to get increased funding for his organization. I hope I’m just being a cynical New Yorker but I have to wonder. Am I unfair?

    • truebearing

      Some arsonists start fires so they can be the hero that “discovered” them. There are all kinds of warped people out there trying to get attention. Anything is possible.

      Hickox is on a messianic trip. She is so blind with self-aggrandizement, she can’t see the disconnect in her behavior. She’s oh-so-wonderful for helping save Africans from a deadly disease, but won’t sacrifice her 15 minutes of fame to prevent spreading it to the people closest to her. There is something seriously wrong with her attitude, not to mention capacity for reason.

  • De Doc

    That nurse is an embarrassment to the health profession. The current science is that Ebola has an incubation period up to three weeks. In her own interest and the welfare of others, she should have volunteered for quarantine to set a good example. But no, this self-anointed Mother Theresa will rave about how her civil rights are being violated and I’m sure at this points smells some monetary settlement down the line.

    • truebearing

      Apparently she took the Hypocritical Oath. “Do no harm” is too yesterday…plus, it doesn’t pay well.

  • truebearing

    It appears that Hickox is on a messianic high and resents being held in quarantine because that would prevent her from recieving the praise and recognition she feels is due. She certainly isn’t displaying altruism in a consistent way. Her stint at helping the Africans now seems like a calculated risk she took for an anticipated payoff once she got home. More narcissism on display in America.

    The fact that there are people who will put themselves first, regardless of the consequences, is exactly why quarantines have been necessary since time began. Medical people are no less self-important than the average person and in my experience, are far more egotistical than the average.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    These “Doctors Without Borders” types are sanctimonious hypocrites, and professional altruists, to boot. They have no sense of self-worth unless there are sores to stick their fingers into, and if there were no sores handy to examine and stick their fingers into, they’d hunt for them, or even invent them. And, as far as they’re concerned, if they recklessly roam the city or the country while the Ebola virus is incubating inside them, and they pass on the virus to luckless other Americans (or Brits, or Germans, etc.), their attitude hovers around: “That’s too bad. I’m out there ‘doing good,’ making like Mother Teresa, and if these other people get Ebola, that’s justice, because while I’m sweating like a pig in Sierra Leone and Nigeria and other wretched places taking care of the lame and halt, they’re shopping at Wal-Mart and guzzling eggnog and going to movies and working at real productive jobs, so they deserve to suffer, too. I’m virtuous, because I’m selfless.” These people are contemptible.

    • Edgar Davidson

      Real cases study: Medecins Sans Frontieres. This appallingly anti-Israel NGO has the distinction of having had one
      of its employees from Gaza arrested for plotting to assassinate the
      Israeli Prime Minister (Ehud Olmert) in 2007.

      • Frau Katze

        They’re same organization. It was created in France, hence the name. They just translate into English for Anglo speaking countries.

  • timpottorff

    I already know her political persuasion.

  • John Doe

    I’ll bet that, if they were to look, they could find a nice dark jail cell to quarantine her in for the next month or two…..but of course nobody in power in this country has the cojones to step up and do the right thing.

  • PatriotForever

    Ebola is an evil disease..with that said it would only be fitting if this self centered CDC nurse got Ebola and her boyfriend and family got it also

  • gerry

    They just follow in the foot steps of their president.

  • Pete

    I am glad you are giving us the false dichotomy between big government and no no government.

    Have you ever heard of right sizing an organization? It was the buzz word de jure about a decade ago. Everything should be its’ proper size and function in terms of laws & government workforce.