Christie's decision process needs to be quarantined

Nurse Kaci Hickox knows first hand how egregious a Chris Christie presidency would be. Retuning to New Jersey from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, Hickox, healthy as a new born babe, had her nice threads replaced with uncomfortable hospital scrubs, escorted into an unheated tent outside a New Jersey hospital, and told to cool her heels for 21 days so Christie could burnish his 'tough guy' bonifides with an ignorant electorate. Christie, who only possesses a doctorate in 'bullying', said next day Hickox was "obviously ill." A firestorm of criticism from the White House, the medical community and Hickox's attorney caused Christie to reverse course and release her after three days. Besides playing despicable politics, Christie's actions virtually guarantee the growth of Ebola in West Africa and possibly the world because the front line health care professionals treating it at its source will refrain subjecting themselves to such inhumane treatment by thuggish politicians.

There is a quarantine that is called for here. Any time Christie contemplates a decision affecting public safety such as closing the George Washington Bridge or quarantining healthy health care workers, he should be required to undergo a 21 day quarantine so he can assess the likely damage. The only difficulty in quarantining Christie might be finding a big enough tent.