Nurses fight conspiracy theories along with coronavirus

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Los Angeles emergency room nurse Sandra Younan spent the last year juggling long hours as she watched many patients struggle with the coronavirus and some die.

Then there were the patients who claimed the virus was fake or coughed in her face, ignoring mask rules. One man stormed out of the hospital after a positive COVID-19 test, refusing to believe it was accurate.

“You have patients that are literally dying, and then you have patients that are denying the disease,” she said. “You try to educate and you try to educate, but then you just hit a wall.”

Bogus claims about the virus, masks and vaccines have exploded since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic a year ago. Journalists, public health officials and tech companies have tried to push back against the falsehoods, but much of the job of correcting misinformation has fallen to the world’s front-line medical workers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nurses-fight-conspiracy-theories-along-with-coronavirus/ar-BB1eyjPG?li=BBnb7Kz

[mucifer]

1. I'm a hospice nurse. Next week I'm attending a webinar in how to deal with the anti vaxxers. Some

of my patient's parents won't get vaccinated. My patients are kids so they don't qualify. Their parents do because they are caregivers. Many have gotten it. Some say they never will.

[bem6207]

2. It's ridiculous

Mississippi is the worst when it comes to masks. I have to hear our mailroom guy who is an ignorant conspiracy theorist, constantly moan and groan about wearing his mask, no one gives a shit. Just wear it and move along, geeeeez.
Or go work for someone who thinks tater tot reeves and Cindy Lied Smith are Gods, and probably won’t provide benefits, works you like a dog, and pays you shit, so you can bitch about that. 🙄

Thanks for the Good read, I am saving link to send to all the fake news spreaders in my community group. 😊

[dalton99a]

3. Conspiracy theories endorsed and propagated by a president

[mitch96]

4. This is the thinking of my best buddy.. Total denial and there is no changing it.

He's 72, obese but in other wise good shape. He says he will take Vit D, C, and a baby dose of aspirin mask up, isolate and keep his distance.. I told him I got the shot..
Just to rub it in I said I did not even feel the 5G chip going in
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[FlyingPiggy]

5. I can't even imagine. It's hard enough to educate people on the

Disease process and crisis at hand much less having to deal with absurd conspiracy theories. My heart goes out to those in the front lines.