The Kaci Hickox has exposed the nasty underbelly of fear, hate, ignorance and violence.
Honestly, I had no idea that the wingnuts could be that bad. I've been here a while and seen the same classic wingnut behavior that y'all have but this one takes the cake.
I am no shrinking violet but I don't believe that I have ever laid eyes on anything as vile as the Twitter #KaciHickox hashtag. There are calls for here to get the disease, get shot and many other types of their twisted idea of schadenfreude that you can imagine. The most generous of them only wish for her to lose her job and never be employed again.
Why?
Currently there is a patient in New York City's Bellevue Hospital battling the Ebola virus and being tended to by a host of nurses. Nurses caring for an Ebola patient just like what Kaci Hickox did but they are allowed to mingle freely in society?
Why the disconnect?
Is it because she dared to speak up about being wrongfully imprisoned in a hospital parking lot tent? Is it because she was affiliated with the now evil CDC? (I still can't figure out what is particularly wrong with that but apparently now it is a horrible thing to be associated with) This is the same wingnut contingent who has been waving their Gadsden Flag screaming to all that the government needs to back off now they are demanding that they step it up? This crowd went from chanting "US Government out of Healthcare" to "US Government needs to micromanage health care" in an ironic heart beat.
Let me be perfectly clear:
Kaci Hickox and all Americans that are not posing a meance to public health should be afforded the same freedom, the freedom to be left alone being paramount.
Is there anyone who doubts that if Kaci Hickox displayed warning signs that she wouldn't do the correct thing? She is a nurse who has dealt with Ebola patients for crying out loud. The wingnuts have chosen their targets, facts be damned and it is truly a disgusting thing to witness.
Anyways, there is a staff of nurses working at Bellevue who are rightfully being ignored and are being allowed to live their lives because they haven't dared to call bullshit on the bedwetting fear mongering, yet...