Chris Christie does not make mistakes, and he does not change his mind. He is always right. Just ask him.
Unlike NY Gov. Cuomo, whom he convinced to mandate a quarantine on asymptomatic returning health care workers, Christie claims that releasing the returning Ebola nurse from quarantine to return to her home in Maine does not represent a retreat from his mandate.
Christie says she "was obviously ill" when she was put in quarantine. That turned out to be incorrect. It was based on a false reading from the forehead temperature scan, which apparently gave a high reading because her faced was flushed. When they rechecked it with an oral thermometer, her temperature was normal and has remained so.
She was still detained under Christie's mandate, until the backlash became so intense and her threatened lawsuit began to materialize. Then Christie found a way out.
If she could be transported without using public transportation to her home state of Maine, she could be released. The implication is that she could not remain in New Jersey without staying in quarantine. Therefore, he has not changed his policy.
His defense for sticking to this protocol, which is stricter than those of the CDC or Doctors Without Borders, is that the national standards will come around to his thinking "sooner rather than later." That is, he is right and the medical experts are wrong. No acknowledgement that he may have been hasty . . . . or, horrors, wrong.
Arrogance means "never saying that you're wrong" -- a terrible trait to have in a political leader. Do we really want someone with his finger on the nuclear bomb who never has doubts, never has second thoughts, never acts hastily without consulting the experts, never regreats anything he has done?
Ralph
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