Fuck, I know multiple hospital nurses that were mask and vaccine skeptics during the massive outbreaks.
Also, unfortunately here in America, the only economically advanced society on the planet that allows for prescription drugs to be advertised on TV, there are and have been huge amounts of over prescriptions of drugs of all kinds that are massively expensive and have many side effects that are costly in many ways, when its often the case that if people simply could actually afford the time and money to do regular screenings, checkups, and even just an actually basically healthy diet with some routine light exercise, many of these drugs would never be needed at all in many cases.
I agree with you on trust the science, but when it comes to medicine, the unfortunate truth is that our healthcare system is so broken that you often cannot trust/afford it generally, opening up people to be susceptible to both officially approved and proffered solutions which are dubious (opiod crisis, sackler family) as well as absolute nonsense quackery like homeopathy, or drinking bleach, or even urine.
Even Nurses with a bachelor’s degree have a very light core science foundation. They take Biology for Health Sciences 1 and 2 instead of the Biology 1, 2, 3, and 4 that biology majors take. I had a nurse ask me if creatinine had a “nice little abbreviation” like Sodium (Na) and Magnesium (Mg)… Creatinine isn’t an element on the periodic table so no, it doesn’t. It is lots of C’s H’s O’s and probably some N’s. I had another nurse ask me to explain saturation. Nurses sent cookies to the lab (a “dirty zone”) in the same carrier tubes that hold sputum, blood, urine, and stool. Then they were confused on why we threw the cookies away and scolded them for the unsafe practice. Their education prepares them for the job of nursing not research scientist.
Fuck, I know multiple hospital nurses that were mask and vaccine skeptics during the massive outbreaks.
Also, unfortunately here in America, the only economically advanced society on the planet that allows for prescription drugs to be advertised on TV, there are and have been huge amounts of over prescriptions of drugs of all kinds that are massively expensive and have many side effects that are costly in many ways, when its often the case that if people simply could actually afford the time and money to do regular screenings, checkups, and even just an actually basically healthy diet with some routine light exercise, many of these drugs would never be needed at all in many cases.
I agree with you on trust the science, but when it comes to medicine, the unfortunate truth is that our healthcare system is so broken that you often cannot trust/afford it generally, opening up people to be susceptible to both officially approved and proffered solutions which are dubious (opiod crisis, sackler family) as well as absolute nonsense quackery like homeopathy, or drinking bleach, or even urine.
Worth pointing out that nurses are not part of the scientific community.
One eye opener for me of the pandemic was the large number of nurses who completely ignore accepted medical science.
Even Nurses with a bachelor’s degree have a very light core science foundation. They take Biology for Health Sciences 1 and 2 instead of the Biology 1, 2, 3, and 4 that biology majors take. I had a nurse ask me if creatinine had a “nice little abbreviation” like Sodium (Na) and Magnesium (Mg)… Creatinine isn’t an element on the periodic table so no, it doesn’t. It is lots of C’s H’s O’s and probably some N’s. I had another nurse ask me to explain saturation. Nurses sent cookies to the lab (a “dirty zone”) in the same carrier tubes that hold sputum, blood, urine, and stool. Then they were confused on why we threw the cookies away and scolded them for the unsafe practice. Their education prepares them for the job of nursing not research scientist.