This is an evolving situation which the White House is desperately trying to get their arms around control.   Currently the White House messaging to the U.S. media is an effort to sell the quarantine proposals as a U.S. Pentagon/Military decision/non-decision about quarantining soldiers who return from West Africa missions.  
However, it appears that specific angle’s narrative is driven as a needed cover story for DoD Secretary Hagel, and the Joint Chiefs – because  Italy, Spain and Germany  have told our military personnel (returning from Africa) they will face forced quarantine in their respective base countries.

WFB […] Major General Darryl A. Williams, who was appointed head of the U.S. command center in Liberia that coordinates the response to Ebola, was isolated along with several other Americans over the weekend, CNN reports.
The General’s “plane was met on the ground by Italian authorities ‘in full CDC gear,’” a U.S. official was quoted as telling CNN.
Williams and the others will now be monitored for 21 days at a U.S. military compound in Italy, according to the report.

The Italians forced U.S. Major General Williams into quarantine.

You can see the problem for the White House.  Our military forced to quarantine in other countries while President Obama is advocating exactly the opposite, and allowing everyone to come willy nilly in the U.S. 
To cover the dichotomy and try to avoid the conflict, the Joint Chief’s are debating a new rule forcing all of our military into quarantine.  This would change the dynamic to give the appearance of a decision made on our part and not forced by other nations, upon us.
However, such a rule might avoid the international optic but it would conflict with the White House.  How can the White House advocate for non-quarantine of West African healthcare workers, based on human rights violations, and yet force our military into the same quarantine. (more…)

Just to balance the considerations here ~ Italy, Germany and Spain have now demanded 21 day forced quarantine for our military personnel who are based overseas and travel to Africa.  Including Italy requiring the U.S. Army to put a U.S. General, Major General Darryl Williams, under armed guard during his quarantine.

Good grief the media “victim” propaganda is extreme below; but it’s no wonder.

Think of all the victim ‘check-boxes’ she fits.  Typhoid Mary, aka Kaci Hickox (picture credit GotNews) is a: • Northeast liberal (Maine), •far-left activist, • lesbian, • Democrat, • federal government employee, • working for the CDC.

Media Victim Checklist: (√ = Victim Value Scale)

√ √ Democrat
√√ √ Female
√ √ √ √ √ Gay
√ √ √ Liberal-Activist
√ Northeast (Maine)
√ √ Federal Employee

“This is an extreme that is really unacceptable, and I feel like my basic human rights have been violated”. – Kaci Hickox 

Chris Christie didn’t stand a chance.  Now things begin to make sense about how Ms. Hickox is being sold to the public as a victim.  It also explains why they had to inject her school, the University of Texas, to avoid the reality of her being a typical Northeast Liberal; and to sell the Dr’s without borders angle to obfuscate she’s actually a federal employee. 

Including this insufferably biased article about her being forced to sit isolated in tent in the parking lot of a New Jersey hospital.

(Via Daily Mail) Chris Christie was forced on Monday to allow a nurse being kept in a tent in a hospital parking lot to go home after intense White House pressure to relax a mandatory 21-day quarantine the New Jersey Governor had imposed at a state level. (more…)

NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday night revised guidelines for the mandatory, 21-day quarantining of medical workers returning from West Africa that he and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ordered two days earlier, bringing the state closer in line with federal protocols.

He outlined the state’s policy at a nighttime news conference with New York City’s mayor after the Obama administration said it expressed concerns to Cuomo and Christie about their states’ mandatory Ebola quarantines. The revision also comes amid criticism of the treatment of a nurse returning from Sierrra Leone who was forcibly quarantined is a New Jersey hospital isolation unit even though she said had no symptoms and tested negative for Ebola.
Under the revised New York guidelines, medical professors who have had contact with Ebola patients will be quarantined at home and receive twice-daily monitoring if they have no symptoms. The state will also pay for any lost compensation, if they are not paid by a volunteer organization. (more…)

WHITE HOUSE – The President on Sunday afternoon convened his public health and national security teams to discuss appropriate measures to mitigate the risk of additional domestic Ebola cases. The President’s advisors updated him on policy considerations for new measures pertaining to returning healthcare workers, whose selfless efforts are critical to fighting this epidemic in West Africa.
The President underscored that the steps we take must be guided by the best medical science, as informed by our most knowledgeable public health experts. He also emphasized that these measures must recognize that healthcare workers are an indispensable element of our effort to lead the international community to contain and ultimately end this outbreak at its source, and should be crafted so as not to unnecessarily discourage those workers from serving. He directed his team to formulate policies based on these principles in order to offer the highest level of protection to the American people.

WH concerned about "unintended consequences" of new quarantine policies adopted by NY, NJ & IL for travelers from west Africa.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 26, 2014

(more…)

Initially we were on the fence about being able to identify her political ideology. Not any longer. She’s a clear cut typical progressive democrat.
The logic she uses to protest against the quarantine identifies her as clearly a Democrat. [Transcription and emphasis mine]

@2:38 “… and no-one knows, no-one can predict if I will develop Ebola or not in the next 21 days. And most aid workers who come back will not develop Ebola. So to quarantine everyone ‘in case’, you know, when you cannot predict who will develop Ebola or not; and to make me stay for 21 days, to not be with my family, to put me through this emotional and physical stress, is completely unacceptable”.

Here comes the planning of a lawsuit against the State of New Jersey. (more…)

(USA TODAY) Aides to President Obama are criticizing decisions by three states to quarantine people who are returning from Ebola-stricken West Africa.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and United Nations ambassador Samantha Power said quarantines may discourage health workers from traveling to West Africa to help block the disease at its source. (more…)

UPDATE:  Go look at Weasel Zipper’s update to their article on Ebola Nurse  CLICK HERE – You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up.
The possibility she might be a carrier of a deadly virus seems lost amid the grandiose self absorption.  Sorry, but that’s the message, albeit perhaps unintended, of her protestations. While the “on-the-fly” operational protocols might lend to hurt feelings and tactics devoid of sensitivity-first approaches, they are a direct consequence of the risk being faced – and a lack of national leadership. The “stompy feet” countering narrative is the wrong approach.
Instead, seek first to understand – then, to be understood.    
(Via Dallas News) […] Kaci Hickox – I am a nurse who has just returned to the U.S. after working with Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone – an Ebola-affected country. I have been quarantined in New Jersey. This is not a situation I would wish on anyone, and I am scared for those who will follow me.
I am scared about how health care workers will be treated at airports when they declare that they have been fighting Ebola in West Africa. I am scared that, like me, they will arrive and see a frenzy of disorganization, fear and, most frightening, quarantine.
I arrived at the Newark Liberty International Airport around 1 p.m. on Friday, after a grueling two-day journey from Sierra Leone. I walked up to the immigration official at the airport and was greeted with a big smile and a “hello.”
I told him that I have traveled from Sierra Leone and he replied, a little less enthusiastically: “No problem. They are probably going to ask you a few questions.” (more…)

This one is a little weird.  One account says the aid worker went through health screening without issue and was isolated as a result of the *NEW* policies in place for New York and New Jersey.  It was only during the quarantine time at the airport she exhibited symptoms of a fever beginning.  A second account says the health screening caught her fever.
New Jersey – One day after New York officials announced a Doctors Without Borders physician had tested positive for Ebola, another person who treated patients in West Africa developed a fever and was put in isolation at a northern New Jersey hospital.

The second health care worker, a woman who hasn’t been identified by name, did not have any Ebola symptoms upon arrival Friday at Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey health department spokesman Donna Leusner said.

Yet things changed in the hours that followed. According to Leusner, “This evening, the health care worker developed a fever and is now in isolation and being evaluated at University Hospital in Newark.” (more…)

Most intellectually honest people will admit US Ebola Patient Zero, Thomas Duncan, left Liberia -and came to the U.S.- knowing he was exposed to Ebola.
Duncan Timeline: Exposed 9/15, caught a flight 9/19, arrived U.S. 9/20, first symptoms 9/24, first symptomatic hospital visit 9/25. (Thomas Duncan created case #2 and case #3, both nurses).
The generally accepted belief (also by Liberian authority) is that Duncan knew of his exposure when he left Liberia. He came to the U.S. just-in-case.

Well, what would it indicate if current Ebola case #4, Dr. Craig Spencer, followed an IDENTICAL timeline? Read on…. (more…)

~ EBOLA COMES TO THE BIG APPLE ~

BREAKING NEWS: Patient in NYC tests positive for Ebola, reports say http://t.co/MzUgXru6B0

— Fox News Alert (@foxnewsalert) October 24, 2014

New York – Ebola may have HAS come to Harlem.

UPDATE: Patient Tests Positive • Patient flew on planes from Guinea to Brussels and then from Brussels back to NYC. • He lived in Harlem with his fiancée.  • He went bowling last night at a trendy hipster bowling joint.  • Took an Uber ride to get there and back. • He sent his clothes out to be dry-cleaned.  • TIMELINE: 10/17 Arrived at JFK Airport • 10/21 felt tired began showing symptoms.  • 10/23 had fever, alerted officials.  • Four “friends” being quarantined.
Original Article – A 33-year-old doctor who recently returned from the disease-wracked West African country of Guinea was rushed Thursday to Bellevue Hospital with symptoms of the deadly disease – including a 103 degree fever.

Preliminary results of tests done on the doctor, identified by sources as Craig Spencer, are expected in the next 12 hours, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a statement. (more…)