Hours after nurse Kaci Hickox violated her Ebola quarantine to go on a bike ride, Maine governor Paul LePage warned that he would use the “fullest extent” of the law to ensure she stays three feet away from other residents of his state.
Hickox chose to leave her house to go riding with her boyfriend on Thursday morning, defying a 21-day home quarantine imposed by the state after she returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa.
“I’m not afraid,” she told reporters jogging alongside her. “I hope that we can continue negotiations [with the state] and work this out amicably.”
Governor LePage explained that the police cars shadowing her movements were there to protect her. “But at the same token, her behavior is really riling a lot of people up,” he said. “She’s not acting as smart as she probably should.”
“I don’t want her within three feet of anybody,” he continued, promising he would use “the legal provisions to the fullest extent that the law allows me” to ensure that remains the case.
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