The rebellion against quarantine continues

Kaci Hickox Won't Follow Maine Ebola Quarantine Rule, Lawyer Says

She is going to ignore the law.

If she is arrested or guards are put on her door her lawyers will challenge.

The rebellion has become a heartfelt cause of the left.

The kind of left that joined the Occupy movement, if you recall.

Anarchists, communists, and other crackpots, plus the tens of millions who sympathized but did not actually sleep in tents.

If we knew her personal politics, would we be surprised?

The newsies are wondering how the administration's continued, anti-quarantine stand squares with a major general and his troops sitting on their butts in quarantine in Italy for 21 days on the way home.

This "fuck you, you can't tell me what to do" attitude is not building public regard for or trust in nurses, doctors or the administration that is letting these selfish heroes in their own minds call the shots.

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Her lawyer is retailing the lie that the rule is you put people in quarantine who you know are infected.

Perhaps he wants to make that the rule, going forward.

But the rule includes putting people in quarantine if you have reason to fear they are infected, and need to be sure they are not.

That is the rule that's got those soldiers in Italy waiting out 21 days.

If we knew the personal politics of her lawyers, would we be surprised?

Those loons in the "Occupy" movement had a lot of sympathizers.

Let all this be a reminder how awful people really are.

Not just stupid or even just selfish but actually malicious.

Will exit polls next Tuesday tell us that the Democrats got clobbered in part because people are outraged at the administration's arrogant refusal to take obvious steps to protect Americans?

That's not how I will vote.

But would it be a surprise if it's how lots of others will?