"There was no scientific justification for quarantining me so my personal freedom was sacrificed so Connecticut could seem tough on Ebola,'' Boyko said during the press conference. "It was awful, I was isolated from my classmates and professors, unable to keep up with work at my lab or my teaching responsibilities. my girlfriend had to move out and find emergency housing with no help from the state. I could have no visitors or step outside my small apartment, even for a minute, worst of all I had to go weeks without seeing my son, the most important person in the world to me."