10/30/14 9:34 AM

Then do it on a bike:

http://www.boston.com/health/2014/10/30/showdown-imminent-over-nurse-quarantine-maine/MhbKBGsZ3NnBZ903syb5dK/story.html?p1=Topopage:Test_B:Main_headline

10/30/14 10:45 AM

Don't mess with a girl from The County!

10/30/14 11:33 AM

She's so far north in Maine, the reporters are probably pissed at finding themselves out in the back of beyond.

Good for her is my opinion. She never had a temperature and never should have been put in the hospital in NJ. Friggin politicians, Cuomo's no better then Christie in all this, and no comment on Maine's Gov'.

10/30/14 12:00 PM

Someone should find her some woodsy single track in the area, where the police cruiser can't follow, to lose herself for an hour or two...

10/30/14 5:10 PM

April, I think she can probably find some woods around Fort Kent. :) She could lose herself for as long as she wants....

Steve B, you don't like Gov. LePage? I must say the Maine Gov. race this year is the most fascinating political contest I have seen.

10/30/14 5:52 PM

I think she needs to get over herself frankly..


Also think if it was not so close to poll time they would have got some judge to issue a warrant for her.

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10/30/14 6:01 PM

I like the idea she can go places police couldn't follow. She clearly wasn't trying to evade the police nor was she trying to come into contact with the public. Just challenging a quarantine that's not justified by medical knowledge

Now the question is, what are they doing with her boyfriend? Is he allowed to come and go freely?

If he's free to go to work, then come home, presumably kiss this "Ebola" girl (or more), and go to work again the next day, what's the point of keeping her quarantined? But the state also had no ground to keep HIM quarantined... you know what I mean.

There's absolutely no logic to this whole thing!

10/30/14 6:10 PM

"Steve B, you don't like Gov. LePage? I must say the Maine Gov. race this year is the most fascinating political contest I have seen."

Only so far as he's reacting the same way as Cuomo and Christie on the issue with this nurse, total political decision, not based on any actual facts or logic. Other then that he's a bit of a gas bag, likes to toot his own horn and I don't agree with about everything he stands for. Other then that I guess he's OK.

10/31/14 5:03 AM

Stick your thumb firmly in the eye of idiot politicians with no respect for science and medical experts! Live your life as you see fit, based on sound reasoning. Run for President in a couple of years; we could use somebody with common sense and a backbone!

10/31/14 2:10 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/31/health/us-ebola/index.html?hpt=hp_t2


And the best new slogan from the Gov. campaign:

"If you want LePage to take a hike,

You've got to vote for Mike!"

From an independent group, not the Michaud campaign, but I like it.

10/31/14 4:14 PM

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10/31/14 4:26 PM

I'd prefer no such groups either. But as long as the right wingers have the Koch Brothers, liberals may as well have some counterpart.

I meant I like the slogan, not the group.

Outside interests from both sides are pouring lots into the Maine race. Christie is practically living in Maine to support LePage.

10/31/14 5:09 PM

"I call BS. As a result of recent Supreme Court decisions"


Yeah, that is all kinds of buying election bullshit. Democratic union... my ass!!

10/31/14 5:23 PM

"Well they did go to a judge"

And the exact opposite thing probably would have happened if not for elections... I'd bet on it! ;)

Maybe higher court will over turn that ruling after Tuesday...

10/31/14 5:37 PM

District Court Judges aren't elected in Maine. What does the election have to do with it? Brian is conservative and opposes the quarantine. Gov. LePage is conservative and favors it. Maine judges tend to call them as they see them.

No expert here, but I haven't seen scientific opinion in favor of the quarantine.

10/31/14 6:57 PM

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11/1/14 8:39 AM

...though obviously I'm taking that out of context.

You're right, this is just typical "feel good" legislation that does absolutely nothing to protect public safety, similar to a certain "hot button" topic here that will go unnamed until our inevitable annual debate during the depths of winter. As you say, it just gives politicians the opportunity to claim that they're doing something even when they know that they haven't done a damned thing.

Right Erik? ;-)