Kaci Hickox has left her home with her boyfriend

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84. And, how exactly does it make them more or less infectious or contagious?

In fact, since the troops did not go voluntarily, they are far more sympathetic to many people. More importantly, unlike the aid workers, we've been told that the troops were not directly exposed to the virus, and therefore are at much lower risk of infection.

As to not being doctors, neither are many of the aid workers, including Ms. Hickox who is nurse. The only skill required to self-monitor is the ability to use a thermometer. If our troops lack the dedication, skill and intelligence to use a simple thermometer, when we trust them with ordinance worth millions of dollars and often our lives, they should be discharged and our recruitment and training procedures reevaluated.

If asymptomatic individuals do not require a mandatory quarantine, as has been explicitly stated by the president, self-monitoring should be sufficient for both military and civilian alike.

A little less hypocrisy from the White House might actually help assuage some of the unsubstantiated public fears.