President Obama thinks it we shouldn’t force quarantines on those saintly people who voluhteer to go to Africa to treat Ebola. But Kaci Hickox, the nurse who rebelled against her quarantine in New Jersey and was released to return to her home in Maine, apparently is going to defy the voluntary quarantine the state has asked her to observe. CBS local reports:

Hickox’s lawyer insisted Tuesday that she was not under quarantine and said she was seeking time to decompress at an undisclosed location in Maine. Steven Hyman of the New York law firm McLaughlin & Stern told the Bangor Daily News that Hickox will not comply with Maine’s requirements to remain under quarantine for 21 days.

“She doesn’t want to agree to continue to be confined to a residence beyond the two days,” Hyman told the Daily news.

Hickox’s other attorney, New York civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel, called Maine’s quarantine “unconstitutional.”

“The conditions that the state of Maine is now requiring Kaci to comply with are unconstitutional and illegal and there is no justification for the state of Maine to infringe on her liberty,” Siegel explained to the Daily News.

Apparently her compassion does not extent to fellow Americans who might be put at risk by exposure to her. State officials may have their hands forced:

Health officials said Tuesday they’re prepared to legally enforce the state’s “voluntary” quarantine on health care workers who’ve treated Ebola patients.

Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew declined during a news conference to comment specifically on the case of nurse Kaci Hickox, who was confined against her will at a New Jersey hospital before traveling home to Maine. But Mayhew said her department and the attorney general’s office were prepared to take legal steps to enforce a quarantine if someone declines to cooperate.

Speaking of the law, the New York Post reports:

The city’s first Ebola patient initially lied to authorities about his travels around the city following his return from treating disease victims in Africa, law-enforcement sources said.

Dr. Craig Spencer at first told officials that he isolated himself in his Harlem apartment — and didn’t admit he rode the subways, dined out and went bowling until cops looked at his MetroCard the sources said.

“He told the authorities that he self-quarantined. Detectives then reviewed his credit-card statement and MetroCard and found that he went over here, over there, up and down and all around,” a source said.

Spencer finally ’fessed up when a cop “got on the phone and had to relay questions to him through the Health Department,” a source said.

I don’t know either of these people, but I have observed among people I have gotten to know who have done conspicuous good works, particularly in impoverished lands, a certain amount of self-righteousness and self-beatification.