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Kaci Hickox's Argument Analysis

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I’m pretty sure Craig Spencer felt the exact same way when he ate at a public restaurant, rode the subway, and went bowling in Brooklyn and look where that has gotten him. Troops who are returning from West Africa are being quarantined just like the astronauts of Apollo 11 were quarantined and no one thinks or thought any less of them for doing so. I believe that it is more heroic of them to have taken the necessary precautions to protect even more people than they already have rather than to just puff out their chests and say they’re invincible. In an article called “Ebola-Quarantine Objections are Frivolous,” Law Professor Eugene Kontorovich elaborated on the fact that courts have continuously advocated for quarantines for infectious diseases like tuberculosis and smallpox.
“He notes that in a case presenting facts more favorable to the complaining plaintiff than Ms. Hickox’s, a federal court upheld a two-week quarantine of a person who had visited an area infected with smallpox (a markedly less lethal disease than Ebola, and one about which more was known), even though (A) the plaintiff, like Hickox, was asymptomatic and (B) there was no proof that the plaintiff had …show more content…

She didn’t give notice to the people in the United States that she could potentially infect. She didn’t refer to her fellow citizens when she decided whether they would or would not be comfortable with her coming back from Africa after having contact with the lethal virus without taking necessary precautions. I think the quarantine is a great idea and it should be strictly implemented. I agree with the article from nationalreview.com that the objections to the quarantine are frivolous and unnecessary. Hopefully all skeptics can open their eyes to the danger of the virus and be a little more open minded when it comes to our efforts to keep it

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