Criminal defense attorney Mike Cavalluzzi discusses the recent strict Ebola quarantine requirements imposed on New York and New Jersey residents returning to the United States from West Africa.
“I think it’s how you look at how the quarantine is actually being used. I think there is a way to use it responsibly and any personnel that are returning from West Africa, to make sure they are not going to contaminate anyone else,” Cavalluzzi said.
“And then, there’s putting a woman inside a tent with no plumbing for 21 days – those are two separate issues in my book,” he added, referring to the case of Kaci Hickox, a nurse who returned from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, only to be quarantined in New Jersey for 65 hours before being transported to her home state of Maine on Monday.
“The way she was treated feels a little bit like a human rights violation for somebody who had really put herself in harm’s way to do good in the world. I means she was working for basically the French version of Doctors Without Borders,” he said. “She was doing her best to help a very dire situation in West Africa, and then she comes back to the United States and is treated like a second-class citizen I have issues with that.”
But then Cavalluzzi also addresses the case of Dr. Dr. Craig Spencer, who admitted going for a run in New York and visiting a bowling alley in Brooklyn the day before he was hospitalized. “On the other hand, we have the doctor from New York and that is a scary situation – that’s a huge metropolis, New York City, and he’s going bowling,” he said.
“I do understand if you’re (New York) Governor Cuomo, or (New Jersey) Governor Christie, that you maybe are overreacting, but if you don’t overreact, and you suddenly get multiple cases of Ebola, you’ll be attacked far worse than that.”
Watch the full episode to also hear about the possible appeal by the prosecution in the Oscar Pistorius case, plus a discussion about the newly released video of a police shooting in 2012 of a mentally disturbed homeless man.
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