Kaci Hickox Still Poses a Extreme Threat

Kaci Hickox, 33, was granted access to the public by Maine's District Court Chief Judge Charles LaVerdiere on Friday. The ruling has become very controversial around the country, and Hickox defiance towards government authorities has been also made headlines this week in the news.

Hickox is a nurse from Maine who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. So when she returned back to the U.S., she was forced by government officials to an Ebola quarantine. Hickox resisted, but she was put into an isolation tent because of an elevated temperature in Newark Liberty International Airport.

Governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie only wanted to make sure that Hickox didn't contract the Ebola virus while in West Africa. Kaci Hickox hired a lawyer because she felt that her civil liberties has been taken away, and argues that she isn't sick. However, that's all good and well, but the country is very scared and nervous of this deadly disease that has killed nearly 5,000 people.

Americans knew there would come a day that Ebola would make its here. So with Hickox deifying authorities, this is making the country even more nervous. They think she's a carrier and that she'll spread the disease to others, and it will start out in her small town in Maine. However, Hickox has tested negative for the virus twice, but it can still appear in her body within 21 days.

This was the reason why the government wants to take precaution with health practitioners returning home from West Africa. They just want to make sure that they aren't carrying the deadly disease, and would like them to be quarantined for 21 days. Now, returning health officials can do this from the comfort of their own homes.

The Ebola virus is just a sensitive topic to talk about right now, because everyone is scared, they're on edge, and just not educated enough on this disease.

Many think that they can catch Ebola as if it were airborne, but it's not. That's far from the truth, but the tension will keep arising as long as this virus is in our country.