I didn't want to come in here and be mean either
then i saw that she spread misinformation. All while touting the RN, BSN titles in her profile.
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I didn't want to come in here and be mean either
then i saw that she spread misinformation. All while touting the RN, BSN titles in her profile.
That'll be a sweet story to tell the kids when they grow up.
It sucks that she died, but it's infuriating that the actual article doesn't mention how anti-vax she was considering how easily Twitter figured it out.
She's a fully grown human being and with high education at that. Yes fuck trump and social media. But she also has the responsibility of using her head and her common sense more so if she was a nurse.
A terrible and stupid way to die. It's incredibly sad how many people get caught up in obvious misinformation and end up harming themselves and others.
Consevatives this time last year were already in full paranoia about even hypothetical covid vaccines. This goes all the way back to them declaring the pandemic "fake" because it was making Trump look worse than usual. Bill Gates was going to use the vaccine to implant a 5G microchip in your arm, etc. It was very stupid, but these conspiracies were very much already circulating in summer 2020.
Consevatives this time last year were already in full paranoia about even hypothetical covid vaccines. This goes all the way back to them declaring the pandemic "fake" because it was making Trump look worse than usual. Bill Gates was going to use the vaccine to implant a 5G microchip in your arm, etc. It was very stupid, but these conspiracies were very much already circulating in summer 2020.
Yep. 160 of them didn't want to be vaccinated so they sued. They lost.
If only this anti-vax nurse had lived to go to medical school and become an anti-vax doctor. Tragic.
I used to work tech support/customer service for a medical publisher. You would be surprised at how dumb some of these nurses were. There were something that I heard that make you lose faith in the medical professions. There were other things that at first sound bad but then you kind of just accept.
The only people I feel sympathy for are those who bought into the bullshit she was spreading because they assuming she knew more than them, on account of her being a nurse.
As many others have said here, it is ASTOUNDING how many nurses out there spreading antivax and ant-science bullshit.
As many others have said here, it is ASTOUNDING how many nurses out there spreading antivax and ant-science bullshit.
Education without humility can often land one's head into their ass.
But that's the thing with people spreading false information like this, right? They reallly think they are taking their personal responsibility. By "informing" others. They're wrong of course, but in my opinion, that's more an intelligence thing (something you don't have agency on) combined with things like social media companies not taking their responsibility, being surrounded by people with similar beliefs etc.
stop treating an adult like a child. people in life have to live by the decisions they make and suffer the consequences when they make the wrong ones. blaming everybody but the individual is really dumb and gives too many awful people an out when they commit awful things.
I think it's easy to over-generalize there - all the nurses I work with day to day got their vaccines as soon as it was possible and are strong proponents of the vaccine to patients. Era has quite a few RNs so would be good to hear from them. But I definitely have seen what you're describing - surprisingly inaccurate or unfounded statements coming from otherwise good nurses about naturopathy, chiropractic etc.
also anecdotal but it's weird how some of the most vocal anti vaxxers and COVID deniers I've encountered work in the medical field.
It's an extreme educational failure. She tweeted "This vaccine has been released using recombinant DNA faster than any vaccine in the world. It manipulates your DNA at the tiniest molecular level. Do. Not. Get. It. It's not safe." which is obviously not even close to how it actually works. This tells me she's ignorant of the differences between RNA and DNA, which is an educational failure. The other side of the coin is it's pretty clear she lacked the critical thinking necessary to do her own research (and/or be able to discern proper sources from snake oil), which is ALSO an educational failure and a deeper rooted, more fundamental one at that.
The US education system needs to spend less time forcing rote memorization of facts and far more time helping kids with the ability to discern fact from fiction. It's absolutely necessary in our Fox News world.
My heart goes out to her family for this easily preventable death.
Agreed. There's something wrong with the nursing profession that tends to attract a high amount of these kinds of people and I think it really needs an overhaul.
Yeah, her Twitter is shut down, I'm curious about the same. It's almost like people plucked certain Tweets to fit their narrative. I doubt someone with almost 10k Tweets suddenly didn't Tweet for a year. It looks as though she posted the antivax Tweets before she was even remotely eligible to get them.
Her death was certainly preventable, and it was definitely on her. But people actively celebrating it or cheering it are pretty screwed up.
The other aspect to this is how a lot of healthy young people looked at the statistics and decided that COVID was someone else's problem. We all saw the partying and the lack of masks during the pandemic, and we also see it in the current vaccination rates. But if you're working with vulnerable people and you actually care about their health then you should want to protect them by vaccinating.
This pandemic has shown us who a lot of people really are. It's hard to see society in the same way after this.
This pandemic has shown us who a lot of people really are. It's hard to see society in the same way after this.
I'm not celebrating it but I'm not gonna waste a single second feeing bad for someone who died because they chose not to get the vaccine and tried to stop others from getting it.
No it's like a medical exemption. You could refuse the flu vaccine for religious reasons, it's like they are doing that, but obviously they have no plans of actually getting pregnant.
In other words never be held responsible for anything because your surroundings made you do it. Yeah that's not sage advice.
I read a comment online that summed it up best: Vaccination at this point has become a cultural identifier. If you're vaccinated you're a liberal; if you're not, you're a conservative. For conservatives who wrap their status to their politics, no matter what evidence you present it won't matter because getting vaccinated means going against their tribe.
And guaranteed no one in her fucking antivax family or friends learned a fucking thing. Probably doubling down on not getting vaccinated and never will, cementing that her death will be in vain. Dumb fucking backward ass morons.
Growing up in a deep red county with an entire family of Trumpkins ain't make me an antivaxxer. Stop coddling white folks.
From what I can tell, as it mutates into new variants it's starting to get more deadly for younger people.
This is more true than the antivax BS.
Effect of water-DNA interactions on elastic properties of DNA self-assembled monolayers
antivax are morons.
pre-nursing requirements need to be stricter and the nursing board needs to terminate the licenses of nurses that are reported to publicize anti-medicine misinformation while bearing licensed credentials by the state, although that's not really reasonable to expect to be enforced more considering republicans exist and there's a nursing shortage because the "greatest generation ever" got old and the rest of us all have heart disease and diabetes and obesity.
My take as a scientist: if nursing requirements could be stricter to standardize some science education on this, I would throw in a 3 credit hour requirement for licensure of epidemiology or public health upper-level undergraduate course, where they learn and prove understanding about the history of public health advances/vaccines, basic graphs/interpreting of epidemiological concepts, and a nurse's role in public health and vaccine deployment.
An entirely preventable death, but also not one I find myself lamenting. I'm not going to say she deserved to die but... I'm also not going to say the medical field isn't better off in her absence.
And no, I don't buy that she's an entirely an innocent victim of misinformation. So many of these people are willfully shitheads, and I'm sure if it wasn't this, plenty of them would be out there being stubborn idiots over something else. They thrive on being adversarial. Considering how many resources she had available to her, no, she had plenty of opportunity.
And no, I don't buy that she's an entirely an innocent victim of misinformation. So many of these people are willfully shitheads, and I'm sure if it wasn't this, plenty of them would be out there being stubborn idiots over something else. They thrive on being adversarial. Considering how many resources she had available to her, no, she had plenty of opportunity.
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It's possible to be sad while at the same time recognizing that she is responsible for what happened to her. The two are not mutually exclusive. She was a 23 year-old nurse and was clearly held in high-regard by her coworkers, friends, and family. However, despite her level of education, she still fell victim to not only believing misinformation but actively spreading it. The vaccine works. It's proven. >99.5% of COVID deaths are unvaccinated people. So, unfortunately, her own decision is likely what led to her death.
This is not the first story of its type nor will it be the last.
This is not the first story of its type nor will it be the last.
Yup, this is my take as well. You chose misinformation over actual research as an adult, then tried to actively spread said information. No sympathies for what you got.
Here's the whole thread on how her covid hospitalization progressed for you ghouls to celebrate.
on the one hand we recognise how dangerous misinformation is and how vital it is for platforms to clamp down on it
one the other hand, anyone who falls for it is an "idiot" or a "monster" who is completely in control of what they're susceptible to / exposed to
I mean, if the latter was true, then the former wouldn't be such a pressing issue
that's not to remove all personal agency, but as I said earlier, some of this shit is really cleverly produced and is designed to mislead/trick people
frankly, I just find it all very sad