Kaci KO’s Politicians!

Nurse Kaci Hickox says she won’t obey Maine’s Ebola quarantine: I won’t be ‘bullied by politicians[.]’”

Whoa! Maybe we can clone whatever gene inspires Kaci’s defiance, and she can spread that, rather than Ebola, to the general public! When was the last time anyone in the corporate media’s spotlight excoriated Our Rulers that way?

Our rebellious lady continues: “I don’t plan on sticking to the guidelines. I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me … I truly believe this policy is not scientifically nor constitutionally just, and so I’m not going to sit around and be bullied around by politicians and be forced to stay in my home when I am not a risk to the American public.”

Yes! Would that most Americans refused to be bullied by politicians rather than abjectly kowtowing to them.

I’m frequently astounded at the omniscience the media and sheeple tacitly ascribe to politicians. Let a tornado threaten your city, and the mayor suddenly becomes a weather guy, forecasting how long the storm will last and irritating serfs with the most simplistic advice, as though they don’t know enough to come in out of the rain. If food poisoning hits a good many taxpayers, the weather guy transmogrifies into an expert on sanitation, and ditto. Now, with Ebola, every political hack from Obummer on down pontificates as if he’s Marcus Welby, MD.

Kaci’s having none of it. “She slammed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for describing her as ‘obviously ill.’ ‘First of all, I don’t think he’s a doctor; secondly, he’s never laid eyes on me; and thirdly, I’ve been asymptomatic since I’ve been here [in isolation at Newark’s airport],’ Hickox [said] … Sunday.” Go, Kaci!!!!

Unfortunately, our heroine’s revolt may be Progressive rather than libertarian. There’s her prattle about “civil rights,” for starters. And not only is she on the CDC’s payroll (which makes her denunciation of politicians all the more astounding; look for the CDC to fire this employee), she also said that “public health officials — not politicians — should be making the policies related to Ebola and public safety”– “public health officials” being code for “bureaucrats.” (Let me revise my prediction about the CDC’s severing its relationship with her: no doubt its power-hungry sponges are absolutely cheering her war on politicians. Why should Obummer boss us when Tom Frieden can?)

Meanwhile, how sad that many folks who ordinarily distrust the State, who understand its evil and its incompetence, nonetheless call for it to forcibly quarantine people whom bureaucrats and grandstanding politicians decree to be ill. Do these lapsed libertarians expect the government’s inept bozos, who can’t tell a terrorist from a passenger nor sexual assault from security, to accurately judge who’s sick and who isn’t? Do they imagine that goons who used the IRS to retaliate against political enemies won’t wield quarantine in the same manner? Why do they assume that we “need” government to guard our health, that only it can quarantine? I grant that only government can forcibly quarantine, but these former friends of freedom are selling liberty and the voluntary society very short when they presume that only the State can protect us from disease.

We who advocate that the private sector can build roads—and better ones, too—, purify water, guarantee safe food, and educate also insist that it can protect our health and maintain quarantines, too. Defend this stance proudly. Realize that it does not irresponsibly call for sick people to run around infecting everyone. Rather, it demands privately-managed quarantine instead of governmental ones.

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10:11 am on October 29, 2014