I am a faithful and loving husband to a wonderful woman, and I do not make a practice of hugging women I don’t know. But if I had the chance, I wouldn’t hesitate to embrace Kaci Hickox.

She apparently would be willing. In denouncing the quarantine imposed on her by the government of Maine — which she defied the other day by going on a bike ride with her boyfriend — the 33-year-old nurse said, “You could hug me. You could shake my hand. I would not give you Ebola.”