The Quarantine Policy: Preventing Ebola or Hurting Individual Right?

Ebola become a big issue in our society since it starts to outbreak to region to region in West Africa. Ebola even gives more attention in our public when Ebola starts to spread out in Dallas of Texas by Thomas Eric Duncan, who came back to Dallas from Liberia with symptom of Ebola.  When Duncan’s stories were spreading all over in the Media, American people started to see Ebola as more serious problems, and some schools were closed in Dallas of Texas in the beginning of October. Unfortunately, Ebola is still under development; therefore, we still don't have a cure for Ebola.

By this circumstance, Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC) added their policy that people should be isolated for 21 days, who have contacted with Ebola patients or went to West Africa.

However, one of articles called "Threat of Lawsuit Could Test Maine's Quarantine Policy" accords that Kaci Hickox , a nurse who went to Sierra Leone for treating Ebola patients, sued the Maine Quarantine Policy, which is require that anybody that has had direct exposure to Ebola must do a home quarantine, but Kaci Kickox says that it is violated individual right and reported that it is stigmatization and it is not based on science or evidence to isolate her under Quarantine, and the best thing to keep these people are not watching on them in institution if they have symptoms, but it is self-monitoring.


While I was researching about this articles, I don’t totally disagree with Kaci Hickox that this Quarantine policy is somewhat violating individual right. She might have expected people to treat her better than her current situation, because she has been with Ebola patients which shows that she is very brave person, and I want to give her a big applause base on this fact. 

However, I believe that she should understand about this circumstance better than anyone, especially because she is a nurse. I believe that nurse is not only person to treat patients, but they also have great responsibility to take care of those diseases not to be transmitted to others. 

I believe no one probably can make this case as this larger spotlight, but the reason to grow this larger  because I believe that she is a nurse, which it seems that she believes herself that she is knowing more medical knowledge than other people who enforced her to be isolated for 21 days.

Again, I can see that it must be very frustrated for her to be alone and not allowed to see her family and boyfriend, but it seems that she is being selfish because I feel her pride when she was saying " no science and evidence" which looks like she is using her title, nurse, to confront to people for protecting her individual right.