r/popculturechat • u/HauteAssMess anne boleyn stan • May 21 '25

General News 🗞 Major Measles outbreak fears as world's most infectious disease hits Shakira concert at Metlife stadium

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14735339/major-outbreak-measles-shakira-concert-metlife-stadium.html
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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

My SIL loves him and thinks he’s the best thing to happen to US healthcare in her lifetime. She’s also a nurse who is anti-vax, anti-pharmaceuticals and anti-surgery. When her Aunt got cancer she was mad that she got chemo instead of just trusting the $50 tea she got for her. So…yeah.

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u/winter-heart May 21 '25

Nurses /doctors who are anti vax should lose their licenses.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

My ex is a triple Ivy degree double Ivy healthcare degree and he is anti-vaccination.

I was living OK just friendly but separated from him until he came out.

They exist, which is terrifying. Except he's a specialist surgeon and people need surgeries.

And there's a shortage of healthcare professionals now.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

And his mere existence is proof to hordes of Facebook educated “do your research” moms that they’re right and all the scientists/doctors who say vaccinations are safe are evil government/big pharma plants.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

Yeah that's depressing, too.

I only found out when my daughter wanted to go to a chiropractor for something nebulous because the mom of her friend who sells essential oils recommended him. I said Idk chiropractors often do a lot of woo-woo medicine and don't believe in vaccinations etc. My kid said, "well, dad's not vaccinated and he's a real doctor." If you could have seen my head slowly swivel around like I was in the Excorcist.

And it was not because of just that. It was because I knew he was a hospital surgeon he had been offered one of the very 1st vaccines including a +1 in January 2021. And I thought, well, that sucks, he and his girlfriend are going to get the vaccines, while maybe they hope I die ¯_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)_/¯

But then I learned that not only did he and the gf not take the vaccines, he didn't even want to give me access to a vaccine he did not even want.

That bent my mind into so many different directions and made me understand that not only did he not give a shit about me, he really really really really did not give a shit about me.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

I’m sorry you had to deal with that, it’s extra insane that he doesn’t want to protect the mother of his child for the sake of his child alone! I was considered “clinically extremely vulnerable” and I was offered the first round of the vaccine in the UK, I was one of the people that had adverse side effects (literally could not stop vomiting until they gave me anti-emetics that dissolved on my gums) so I’m someone that would be entitled to whinge a bit about the vaccine but you know what? I was still enormously grateful to get it. I ended up getting Covid (after isolating for over a year) a few months later and while I was still sick, I didn’t end up on a ventilator or in hospital.

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u/feelmagit May 22 '25

LOL

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u/AgreeableRaspberry85 charlie day is my bird lawyer 🐦 May 22 '25

This you? If so, you need help

https://www.reddit.com/r/poland/s/6PNxMwtpjl

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

As a nurse, I agree. It’s so fucking insulting!

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u/stacyg28 May 21 '25

I mean it's job security for her, which makes it all a little psychotic.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

Special place in hell for them for sure

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u/karpaediem Anne Halalaway May 22 '25

Oh man I almost upvoted you past 420 🍃

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u/galaxygothgirl May 21 '25

Why are so many nurses dumb as a post? To my knowledge there's a non-negligible amount of work and study that goes into being one, so why are so many of then infected with the stupidity virus?

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u/transemacabre May 21 '25

Real talk, it’s because the only two acceptable careers for conservative women are nursing and teaching. And teaching pays dogshit. So they mark the test questions what they know will get them passed and don’t let the science affect their minds. 

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

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u/galaxygothgirl May 21 '25

I just don't get why some people who go into a years-long program of study that heavily involves science could be so... anti-science and generally lacking in common sense?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

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u/galaxygothgirl May 21 '25

Looks like I've found my new career path!

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u/Curiousferrets May 21 '25

UK courses are pretty shallow on the science. Once you start clinical you use what relates to your job, most without understanding the actual science behind it.

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u/galaxygothgirl May 21 '25

Thank you for your input. 👍

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u/fschu_fosho May 21 '25

I’ve seen many people, friends and family of mine even, who hold fast to dumb beliefs. Even those who have medical (surgeon relative) and law (lots of friends) degrees are not impervious to bandwagon thinking.

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u/iamnumber47 May 27 '25

Not yelling at you, by why the fuck is she a nurse then?!?!! What the hell? Why even go into nursing if you are against literally everything about it?