Kaci Hickox, an American nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, and then defied a quarantine order after returning home to Maine. Photograph: Robert F Bukaty/AP Kaci Hickox embodies all the American values conservatives say they admire. She’s tough – you don’t volunteer to leave New England to stem the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone unless you have courage. She’s a rugged individualist, filled with the pioneering spirit, who makes her own way, without waiting for the say-so of “big government”. No tax-dollar funded politician or bureaucrat is going to lock her up in the land of the free. She knows, as every doctor knows, that Ebola is only transmitted through direct contact with...
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