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By Faith King
\nWAVE News<\/p>\n
HARDIN COUNTY, Ky. (WAVE) – A Hardin County couple is now on house arrest after one of them tested positive for COVID-19 and decided not to sign documents agreeing to self-quarantine.<\/p>\n
Last week, Elizabeth Linscott got tested for the COVID-19 because she was planning to visit her parents in Michigan.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy grandparents wanted to see me, too,\u201d Linscott said. \u201cSo just to make sure if they tested negative, that they would be OK, everything would be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
After testing positive but without showing any symptoms, Linscott said the health department contacted her and requested she sign documents that will limit her traveling anywhere unless she calls the health department first. She said she chose to not sign the documents.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy part was if I have to go to the ER, if I have to go to the hospital, I\u2019m not going to wait to get the approval to go,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
But Linscott said she would take necessary precautions if she needed to go to the hospital, like letting workers know she has recently tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n
A couple of days after she denied signing the Self-isolation and Controlled Movement Agreed Order, Linscott said the Hardin County Sheriff\u2019s Department arrived at her home without warning. Her husband, Isaiah, was home.<\/p>\n
\u201dI open up the door and there\u2019s like eight different people,\u201d he said. \u201cFive different cars and I\u2019m like what the heck\u2019s going on? This guy\u2019s in a suit with a mask, it\u2019s the health department guy and he has three different papers for us. For me, her and my daughter.”<\/p>\n
The couple was ordered to wear ankle monitors. If they travel more than 200 feet, law enforcement will be notified.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t rob a store, we didn\u2019t steal something, we didn\u2019t hit and run, we didn\u2019t do anything wrong,\u201d Elizabeth Linscott said.<\/p>\n
The couple said they never denied self-quarantining, they just didn\u2019t agree with the wording of the documents..<\/p>\n
\u201dThat\u2019s exactly what the Director of the Public Health Department told the judge, that I was refusing to self-quarantine because of this and that was not the case at all,\u201d Linscott said. \u201cI never said that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Linscotts said they plan to get an attorney.<\/p>\n
WAVE 3 News reached out to the Hardin County Health Department but has not heard back.<\/p>\n
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