Life goes on for nurse in 'voluntary' quarantine
In between going on a bike ride and taking delivery of a pizza, nurse Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend did chores and watched a movie while state officials struggled to reach a compromise in a standoff that has become the nation's most closely watched clash between personal freedom and fear of Ebola.
The nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone and her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur, purposefully rode their bikes away from her home in Fort Kent, Maine, on a dirt path.
"We're not trying to push any limits here. We're members of this community, too, and we want to make people comfortable," Wilbur said.
Hickox, who returned to the US last week, has been under what Maine is calling a voluntary quarantine at her home in this town of 4,300 people.
She has rebelled against the restrictions, saying that her rights are being violated and that she is no threat to others because she tested negative last weekend for Ebola.
AP
(China Daily 11/01/2014 page11)
