This Ebola Nurse Breaking Quarantine On A Bike Ride Is Hysterical

(Source) — Sometimes you just gotta ride. A Maine nurse defied orders from the state that she remain in her home under quarantine over Ebola fears when she took a bike ride with her boyfriend on Thursday morning. Kaci Hickox, 33, who recently returned to the U.S. after treating Ebola patients in west Africa, has come under fire from the state of Maine after refusing to comply with a voluntary in-home quarantine. Hickox has repeatedly said she will not abide by the state’s requests that she remain quarantined in her home for 21 days and made that intention quite clear by leaving her home on Thursday — on a bicycle.

Look I hate this lady. If the state tells you to hang out in the house for a few weeks so you don’t turn everyone’s guts into liquid then just fucking do it. I know you think all the proper precautions have been taken and you’re symptom free, but that NYC doctor thought the same thing before he rode the subway all over the city like a movie villain trying to spread the plague. Turns out he was wrong. So just shut up and watch some Netflix on the couch, it’s really not that hard. But, even hating this lady, I can admit this is hysterical. Breaking out of fake jail on a Huffy, blowing past all the news crews and police yelling “TRY AND STOP ME, COPPERS!” like an old timey movie villain is hilarious. I’m picturing a line of cops chasing her all over the place, like OJ or ET as she pedals around with her intestines leaking out of her ass. Sure I think this lady should have been shot when she walked out of the house, but I can still admit this is a ridiculous and hysterical scene.