THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

Ebola Nurse Defies Quarantine Kaci Hickox, the nurse returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, defied her quarantine by leaving her house last night to speak with reporters and today she went for a bike ride. Is she selfish to put the greater public at risk? The Washington Post explains here why Hickox may lose her legal battle against this Ebola quarantine. Hickox, for all her selflessness she showed in Africa, is acting selfishly upon her return to the United States. When it comes to quarantines, the Pentagon has announced that soldiers returning from West Africa will be under a strict 21-day quarantine in a government facility where they cannot see their families. A Breitbart report highlights a veterinarian who points out that animals traveling from most African nations have to undergo a quarantine period of 60 days. David Rustebakke says, "If I wish to import a horse into the United States from Liberia or any African country other than Morocco, the horse needs to undergo a 60-day quarantine period at a USDA-approved quarantine facility prior to mingling with the general population of horses in this country." He compared that to the ease with which travelers can come from West African nations to any city in the United States with little inconvenience. So we will quarantine our livestock and our troops, but healthcare workers dealing directly with this deadly virus can't be bothered to adhere to a 21-day in-house quarantine. Does that make any sense? Speaking Of Not Making Sense Did you know that the CDC quietly released information this week regarding Ebola's ability to live for hours on surfaces as the result of sneezing? Dr. Meryl Nass of the Institute for Public Accuracy points out to the New York Post that the CDC released information this week about "droplets." The CDC poster states, "Droplet spread happens when germs traveling inside droplets that are coughed or sneezed from a sick person enter the eyes, nose or mouth of another person." So yet again, the CDC is contradicting itself after weeks of telling us that it cannot be spread through the air. Also contracting itself is the administration's plan to fly Ebola patients into the United States. They've pushed back against a State Department memo outlining the proposal, saying that it was drafted by a "mid-level" official and not cleared by senior official. Unlike the United States, Australia has become the first industrialized nation to impose a travel ban from the West African nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Our own federal government's response to Ebola has been anything but competent.