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I wonder how many switched to MLMs when they were let go from jobs for refusing vaccines? There were more than a few "influencer nurses" on socials a year or so ago that were found to not have an active license or were CNAs representing themselves as LPNs/RNs.
At least most of the RNs I used to work with only sold cosmetics or real estate on the side 😅
I've noticed this too and I wonder if it's because they don't have to go through the same level of biology and biochemistry courses as like a premed student. I did a 4 year bio (and psych) degree and have taken so many courses to understand the micro world while my sister who's an LPN only had to take one entry level bio course. It was equivalent to high school regular bio. Never have to do any sort of virology or molecular biology but they love to use their title to defend their extremely incorrect and anti science BS (very prevalent during covid). Of course not all nurses are like that, just the ones who tout this crap
I dunno. One of my husband's friends from grad school has a PhD in molecular biology and she's turned out to be a COVID denier, sliding into anti-vax and is 100% into woo-woo homeopathic remedies and crystal healing. To this day, I can't figure out how a woman who spoke so thoroughly about cardiomyopathy has done such a 180.
You get whack jobs in every level of education.
That takes such a level of cognitive dissonance I feel like. Those two things just can't coexist unless you're making a choice to negate one over the other.
As a nurse, I have to agree. I have worked with quite a few nurses who know just enough to not realize how much they don’t know.
I was fortunate in that my BSN program required microbiology. That professor was excellent in his presentation of what vaccine-preventable diseases can do. I’ll never forgot hearing the high death rate for diphtheria, and realizing how lucky I am to even exist, since I knew that one of my grandparents had this disease as a child.
My husband had to take microbiology for his two year ADN. Our daughter was a crawling baby that semester and that is not something that goes well with a parent taking microbiology 😂😂😂
Ding ding ding. That’s the main point in this story. That’s why you find horrible nurses, because they want to control the health of people. It’s a wild thought for us because we want to help people, not hurt them.
I am of the opinion they - including this person- know the truth. But they’re enjoying the maliciousness around sending lies into the world and pulling innocent people in. It’s a game to them, and the damage they do is irrelevant - chances are they barely feel any empathy at all anyway.
I have come across a few people who have admitted or openly shared their malicious intents. How it made them happy and feel good to purposely have people fight each other, especially if they were best friends. Or to spread lies about their loved ones, making people think they cheated or have been seeing someone while that’s not true. I have met someone that would intentionally hurt *themselves* just to get a reaction out of others, to see how they would respond.
This smugass face is telling me she knows, but she’s enjoying the lie. She wants to see what will happen.
My mother is a hospice nurse and insists that masks do “absolutely nothing”.
I have pretty bad myocarditis and really, really cannot handle getting sick on top of my other shit, but she insists this is true. She’s an RN with a BSN.
“No you can’t have your vaccine it’ll just make you more sick. So what if you got bit by an infected animal? Psh; viruses don’t exist. It’s all just a scam.” -Her as a nurse, probably.
Did…did he get rabies…? You said was, and now I’m concerned.
(Seriously though, assuming he is passed on, I’m so sorry. My dad has passed too, but not of rabies. EO Alzheimer’s. Hugs to you.)
No, no, not rabies, lol. During covid, he was sending me weekly emails with all the latest conspiracy theories he believed about the pandemic and vaccines, and at one point, he was jumping on the train that covid wasn't real, that no one had ever seen a covid virus, and that vaccines couldn't work because viruses weren't real anyway.
I'm sorry about your father, though! Alzheimer's sucks.
As someone who literally did my end of bachelor's project on the relation between Trends in Rabies vaccination and epidemiology in my state, let me just say: No. This person can go straight to hell. The whole Lyssavirus genus still visits me in my nightmares.
I’ve read that one of the knock-on effects of this anti-vaxxer shit is more people in the US not getting their pets vaccinated for rabies.
Which is the thing we do (did?) well that makes rabies in humans so rare here that these morons can entertain delusions that it doesn’t exist 🙃
I seriously don't get this. In the EU, after vaccinating wildlife with special vaccines for years, it's officially gone. But we still vaccinate every single pet and keep up vaccinating wildlife, on the off-chance of it re-appearing due to animal migration and such. Why would somebody not vaccinate against in while living in an area where it actually appears??
Even in the EU rabies is still found in bats... I used to volunteer at a wildlife rescue and gloves were absolutely required when working with them, a rabies vaccination was recommended.
Last year I went to help out with bat research in Uganda and you simply weren't allowed to join if you didn't get your rabies vaccine. Even when vaccinated you still need to get boosters after a suspicious bite, but the vaccine buys you some time. We were working in the middle of nowhere so getting to a place that even had boosters available would take at least a day.
I've seen videos of rabid animals and humans during my animal care studies and just can't understand how you would even consider risking that...
There's no rabies in bats in the UK, typically the rare infection that happens is picked up on holiday and then treated or discovered back in the UK.
Bats in the UK have another lyssavirus (same class) but it isn't the same as rabies. It's European Bat Lyssavirus 1 & 2, and there are other bat carried lyssaviruses worldwide.
The same prophylactic care is necessary if you're bitten though, and it also is often fatal if not given prophylactic TX after a bite. It's very rare for humans to be infected though.
It’s still around in bats, and once every decade or so is found again in wildlife or pets, almost always caused by international travelers. I don’t think it’s ever fully gone as long as we have to deal with people going international and especially bringing their pets. The risk will always be there.
Yeah, we're rabies free in the UK but if you want to legally travel out the country with your dog/cat? rabies vaccine with a 21 day cooldown before travel, if not full titre testing 🤷♀️
Yup. Back in 2019 I was training horses for this anti vaxxer wackjob. She wanted to sell said horses and take them to shows. Fine, they just need to be current with the following vaccinations.
She acted like a firing squad was going to come out and not a veterinarian. Thankfully, my own personal horse was kept at a facility where vet care and vaccinations were mandatory. She told me she was okay with animals getting rabies because it’s so “rare” 🙄
Everything else aside, aren't show horses super fucking expensive? Why would you willingly risk the life of a horse you potentially spent tens of thousands to buy?!
Yeah, the horse that I got for free has definitely cost me some dollars. People are dumb. I know trainers who are responsible for EHV outbreaks that cost the lives of horses worth 6 figures plus and they don’t GAF.
Side note: my horse is cheaper than any of my friends children. We did the math one day 😂
Why would someone be okay with it?!?! No one should be allowed to have an animal if they don’t care about rabies risk (don’t even get me started on humans…)
worked in vetmed, can confirm the anti vax crazies spilled over on their pets. then they’re all shocked when their dog bites someone and we to tell them either we could quarantine the dog here for 10 days (and vaccinate while here!!!) or do a rabies submission and cut off ur dogs head and mail it to the state. like nah baby you just fucked around and found out. so glad i left healthcare lol
Idk if this is state specific or what but one time my cat was like two days overdue for her vaccines. I took her in for her exam and she was getting feisty with the vet tech. They told me if she bit them at that moment it’d be a required 10 day boarding. Two days overdue! I learned my lesson and now my little beast goes before the vaccines expire.
Licensed veterinary nurse here. I work in a busy ER and while I (thankfully) haven’t seen rabies, we are seeing a lot of parvovirus in pets in part because of this very reason.
Turns out Michael Scott’s Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro Am Fun Run Race for the Cure was entirely necessary
Rabies virus enters neuronal cells via nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. I always thought that was kind of a crazy fact. The virus literally attaches itself to these receptors that are abundantly expressed in the central nervous system, hence why it leads to such awful symptoms.
If memory serves, it is so god damn horrific that in the rare human cases that pop up, they put them into a coma to die. Why the fuck these shitheads want to die like this is beg nd me! You can bet if their kids were ever caught trying to play with a rabid coon or feral dog, they would refuse medical treatment for the child. They really should have their kids taken away. A child's right to live trumps a parent's right to believe horseshit.
Surprisingly so, a number of years back (I want to say 2017 or 2018 ish, (it horrified me because my oldest was the same age as this kid at the time) a 4 year old kid got bit by a bat in Florida because his father brought a sick bat home from his landscaping job in a bucket to try and nurse it back to health. They let their kid play with the sick bat, and when the kid inevitably was scratched or bit, the parents did not vaccinate him. OFC he died a tragic terrible death, literally at the hands of his own parents’ stupidity. Fuck, they were so fucking dumb.
I learned it's rare when I got bit by a stray dog and had to go to the ER. The ER doc told me that there have been 0 reported cases of humans getting rabies from a dog bite in the last 25 years because we have done a good job of making sure dogs are vaccinated. Though all the other critters that carry them are still terrifying af. Like bats.
There’s an episode of Scrubs, “My Lunch,” where a recurring side character dies of rabies. They assumed it was a drug overdose based on symptoms and her organs were put into patients on the donor list. It’s one of the episodes of TV that never fails to make me cry, but also educational! Doctors were surveyed once and considered Scrubs to be one of the most accurate portrayals of the profession (regarding diagnoses, work relationships, etc)
What? You mean all doctors aren't constantly hooking up in on-call rooms? Gray's Anatomy *lied* to me?
/s lmao. I have friends in healthcare who also said it's more like Scrubs
No I mean my SIL is a doctor and she *definitely* has had to separate two people who were both skewered on the same piece of rebar while also having deactivated a bomb in someone within the past year. 😂 /s she also agreed that scrubs is fairly accurate minus the general sitcom shenanigans
>all the other critters that carry them are still terrifying af.
My coworker got bit by a rabbid skunk when she was a child. That was like 60 years ago. But still a terrifying situation. Her parents took her to get treated.
My daughter was possibly bitten on the head by a bat and I took her to the ER immediately. The last death from rabies in my state was a teenage girl and it was a bat bite. 😔 Always go in if you are around bats and one flies into you, most of the time you don't even know if they bit you. A healthy bat will not purposely hit a human.
Bats are the most common vector for rabies currently in North America, with raccoons trailing behind.
I'm so glad you took your daughter to get prophylactic treatment and she's safe. Even a small chance of rabies is too high...
Thanks, me too! AND i'm glad I didn't have to get the shots -- I hear they cost 10k/dose (and there are 5).
Plus, I was like sorry, but I have to go on a business trip so this timing really doesn't work for me.
I hate to say it but.... if the earth is flat, there's no need for gravity. And I'm sure that if they don't believe viruses exist, they also think the earth is flat.
I cried so much when I saw that movie as a kid 😭 At the time I didn't understand that there was no "getting better" from rabies, so I thought they put him down for no reason
I was the opposite. I would watch Old Yeller and Homeward Bound over and over and over again because I loved the dogs so so much. I guess I too didn’t understand what was really happening to Yeller.
Can I watch those movies now without turning k to a blubbering mess? Absolutely not.
I feel you on that. I too was animal obsessed and sensitive which still confuses me on how I could watch some of these movies.
We read a book in grade 5 about a dog being found in Pompeii and it told the story of how the dog didn’t make it out of the city and I was traumatized.
Dog Park Libertarianism wrecked mine long ago. Nobody picked up after their dogs, the city sprayed regularly with questionable herbicides, it was a swamp of cryptosporidium infections and foul mud. God knows if anyone could pick up parvo from that, but with a senior dog in poor health, I stopped taking chances.
I found out a 'friend' (ex friend) got *falsified vaccination certificates from a licensed veterinarian* to import her beloved dog to Australia from the USA. He got thru quarantine and thank god he was fine, he was a very, very good boy. but I was so fucking outraged - you thought you had the right to compromise the *entire biome of an island continent with notoriously strict quarantine* because you don't 'get' vaccination.
Oh, hell nah! We are a rabies-free country, which is a pretty cool achievement. How dare she. If anyone else hears of a situation like this, please report it. We cannot get rabies here - too many species are becoming endangered as is.
There's been anti vaccine campaigns for pets for a while now. I was a little surprised the insanity didn't transfer to humans sooner.
My vet and my PCP are told to vax us all for anything and everything. I'm not catching that bullshit.
I’ll be blunt.
If it turns out these fundies are willingly getting back rabies, I have zero empathy if one of their family dies. I’ll be angry when it’s an innocent child but apart from that, I’m done. I can no longer bring any sympathy whatsoever for people who choose to kill and get killed, and bring others with them. Straight to hell, hope they go first. Goodbye.
I really don’t care anymore.
Once you're symptomatic, rabies is as close to a 100% fatality rate as you can get with a disease... there's only been a handful of people who ever survived it if they didn't get the vaccine before they showed symptoms.
Edit: Treatment includes the vaccine after exposure, and palliative care otherwise. There was an experimental procedure which is no longer considered valid: the Milwaukee protocol, which involves putting the patient into a coma, lowering the body temperature, and administering antivirals and other drugs... which had very little success. But those are the people who survived. There is no toughing it out.
If you come into contact with a rabid animal, you need to get vaccinated to avoid contracting it. If you have symptomatic rabies, it's too late and you are effectively already dead.
Yes! And what rabies does to you is terrifying!
I lived in the same area and was around the same age as Jenna Giese, she is one of the super rare few that have survived. I’ve always known about rabies but seeing it happen live in your town/age group really cemented the importance of awareness
Is she the young girl who survived using that cooling treatment? I think I heard a Radiolab about it and I’ve been very vigilant and making sure my kids know never to touch wild animals (also my college sent out emails all the time anytime they found a dead bat on campus saying if anyone even thinks they may have touched a bat on the ground they need to go to the health center immediately).
Yes. I remember listening to that episode & it scared the shit out of me. Especially the part where they play the recording of the person with full-blown rabies. Those screams…it still makes me cringe just thinking about it.
There are maybe a couple of dozen cases - I went on a deep dive on this last year and hyperfixated on disease stuff for a while. Had some fun writing up the post, though: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/s/AXlzAiMLSd
There are some interesting finds, like the fact that rabies has jumped form bats to dogs multiple times (current dog rabies is less than 2000 years old, but we have 3500+ year old tablets mentioning rabid dogs) and how bats are the problem in some places but dogs in others. Australia has no rabies at all, but does have a related lyssavirus in some bat populations.
Rabies is so bad that it was in the oldest law codes we have, and that it was permissable to kill a rabid dog on the Sabbath even in ancient times. People knew not to fuck around with that shit.
I’m a vet tech. Sadly the anti-vaxx movement is spreading into our field. Rabies is deadly. I’ve had my vaccines and am grateful for it. And these folk should have to clean a parvo ward for a day or two.
Vet here. These people are dangerous. They have not seen what you and I have seen. Watching puppies needlessly die from parvo and kittens needlessly die from panleuk is traumatizing and infuriating. And rabies is so much worse.
I’ve had to decap way too many animals in my career for rabies testing all bc people did not get their pets vaccinated. Maybe they should have to assist me while I’m doing that.
Vaccines save lives. I’m glad you have your rabies vaccine bc for awhile it was hard for vet techs to get it, at least in my area. I am so thankful that vaccines exist. When I was growing up, canine parvovirus was new, and there was no vaccine, and it was really scary. So many thousands of years of documented cases of human dying from rabies and these idiots want to deny that the rabies virus (and all viruses, I guess) exist. I can’t tell if they really believe it or if it’s just an attempt to get a following by exploiting the ever growing anti vaccine movement. I would like to see what she does if she gets bitten by a stray dog that is not caught to get tested. Wonder if she will still have that smug shit eating grin on face since she’s so certain viruses don’t exist?
Yeah :/ it's how to test for rabies. The entire head is sent to (usually) a state lab, and the brain is tested. As a former vet tech who once had to hold the frozen dead body of someone's beloved pet while the vet cut the head off with an electric carving knife, fuck these people for their antivax bullshit.
I’m a vet too! Maybe you can answer this, cause no one has been able to so far. Assuming my rabies titre levels are still good (got vaccinated 5 years ago), if I got bitten by a rabid animal and wasn’t aware of it/didn’t seek treatment, would the vaccine alone save my life? Or would I still need to get a booster vaccine/prophylactic shots?
My understanding is that you would still need to have some post exposure treatment. This is from
the AVMA: “PrEP doesn’t eliminate the need for additional treatment after rabies exposure. What it does eliminate is the need for post-exposure rabies immunoglobulin administration. It also decreases the number of post-exposure doses of vaccine needed. Rabies PrEP also may provide some protection if post-exposure rabies treatment is delayed or if rabies exposure goes unrecognized.”
OK we're pretty sure my cat *is* autistic, but so is 50% of the human contingent in this home, so we are not sure whether it was vaccines or maladaptive learning (kidding of course, the cat is just autistic).
These anti vaxxers are *this stupid* and yet, they think the issue is *'getting'* autism. Even if vaccines did 'trigger' autism (they do not) *it would still be worth the benefits of eradicating and controlling f--king rabies.*
That sounds like a traumatic memory, I'm sorry about your teammate. I read a long form article about rabies and the example it gave was from a bat bite that went unnoticed. Their teeth are so small it barely leaves a mark. If you wake up with a bat in your room, they suggest getting the rabies vaccine as a precaution just because it's so hard to tell if you got bit by a bat or not.
This happened to my husband. It was painful and expensive (for a PhD student especially!) and his labmates called him Batman for months, but holy fuck was it worth not having that risk hanging over his head. Just glad I was out of the country at the time and escaped it. 😅
It’s terrifying! As a parent I’m always reminding my kids never to touch any wild animals they see outside, not even if they seem hurt or are laying down.
Yep, bats are the worst in this regard since they're a significant vector for rabies and they can end up biting you in ways you don't even notice, in my country people are regularly reminded not to make contact with bats and to be extremely vigilant of bites if they live in houses which have bat populations (rare but it still happens in the countryside).
Probably one of my top fears. I worked in a retail store that had bats in the ceiling and I also walked home at night so I'm terrified I've been bitten and don't know it or something.
Simple test. You, a rabid bat, a rabid raccoon and a rabid dog all in a small observation room with the door closed.
You are monitored for the next year. May the odds he ever in your favor.
I mean, people regularly die of rabies still in developing countries like India. I invite her to spout this bullshit to one of the families who’ve lost kids to it. They’d probably punch her square in her smug mug, and she’d deserve it. Fucking deranged and evil.
the cynic in me went "too bad the videos on the internet of ppl exhibiting rabies symptoms are mostly brown ppl"
bc these racist fucks lack the compassion and empathy, and the understanding that it doesn't matter if you're white, rabies will kill you and it will be a horrifically painful death
Is she saying that rabies doesn’t exist? They put us through a unit solely on rabies in one of my high school classes and that has got to be one of the most terrifying diseases out there. If you don’t get the vaccine before the virus reaches your brain you are done for. This is such a dangerous thing to spread if you or your kid get bit by a wild animal get the vaccine.
Normally with a person this disgustingly smug, I'm very "FAFO, dipshit!". But chances are, she's not going to be the one to get sick. It'll be kids, or pets, or other peoples ' kids and pets. And that makes me sick with worry and anger.
Fingers crossed you all stay rabies free in this crazy world. We are dealing with the Rabbit Hemorrhagic Viral Disease virus mutation affecting all our wild rabbits here in the US. Thank Heaven the government finally let us get the vaccine. You can bet money I signed my buns up for their shots as soon as we got it!
I live in NZ and they have deliberately introduced RHVD to cull the rabbit population (an invasive pest) multiple times (both with and without government permission 😑). RHDV2 has been around for about 6 years now. We vaccinate all the pet bunnies here, never occurred to me the vaccine wouldn’t be widely used elsewhere! I always find it wild how much vet med varies country to country
She's smug because she lives in a sheltered little american town where the risk of contracting rabies is extremely low. It's easy to be so self assured when you've never witnessed it, the way a wild animal or former pet behaves when it's in the dying stages. She'll claim demonic possession or something if it ever happens to one of her brood.
Pretty sure she has a highlight for RSV which, ya know, is a fucking virus!!! This girl gives the rest of us nurses a bad name. I had to block her because she is so smug in her self righteousness and I want to smack that smugness out of her.
There was a post on r/AskReddit about what was the worst way to die. I was going to vote for Ebola, but the overwhelming consensus was rabies.
Miss Smug is welcome to expose herself to this "non-existent" virus and see what happens.
Forgetting the whole rabies insanity for a second…this woman literally doesn’t believe in viruses?!!! What is her explanation for when people get a cold or the flu? What exactly is going on in their bodies????
Yeah you know I don’t think I’ll take any kind of life advice from someone who almost let their baby starve to death for IG to see because mommy’s pride is more important than a skeletal newborn
Wait, what? HOW is she a nurse if she does not believe viruses exist. Please tell me she no longer has a license to practice. Uuuuugggghhhh these people.
She reminds me of that crazy Covid denier nurse who tried to demonstrate to their community board or something that Covid was a hoax and the vaccine turned you into a magnet or something. She tried to stick coins on herself during her testimony to prove she was magnetic 🤣🤣🤣
She was not taught in nursing school that rabies and viruses don’t exist. She’s chosen to abandon the tenets of nursing practice but still use her credentials to spread information that isn’t evidence-based. It’s despicable.
Nothing to do with viruses, but I once saw a Reddit post from this anti-abortion person who was studying to become an OB/GYN. They said they had a whole mental breakdown over having to perform a fake abortion in a papaya 😭😭 Fucking crazy that anyone can get a degree.
I live in a country with no rabies. Every few years some entitled celeb tries to smuggle their fur baby in on a private flight and then get all shocked pickachu when it gets quarantined for 6 months and they get a massive fine.
Countries with no rabies have insane biosecurity measures to keep it out.
But sure, let's question if it's even real.
I guarantee if they got bitten by a rabid animal they would suddey believe viruses are real as they go to get the vaccine.
Honestly curious, because it seems as if since Covid, there have been an awful lot of nurses that have gone off the rails like this. Any theories as to why? I know it’s a super stressful job. But… why is it so often nurses? 😬
Oh lord, this person is ignorant. Rabies is documented in ancient medicine texts from Greece and Rome, as well as other ancient civilisations (Egypt, Persia, etc). It is a horrible, painful way to die - and it IS fatal. There is no way to survive it unless you get IMMEDIATE medical attention BEFORE symptoms begin to show and get a series of vaccination injections. Once the rabies symptoms show up (within days of exposure), you will be dead within 14 days - and it will be awful. You will suffer immensely. There is no cure, which is why we focus so hard on prevention and minimising exposure.
I fucking hate science-phobic people like this. They kill progress.
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Apparently a former fucking nurse. 🤯
Psuedoscience is shockingly just as prevalent among nurses as the rest of the population, but you’d still think she believes in viruses lol
Apparently an alarming number of nurses are into MLMs, too (which goes hand in hand with pseudoscience, of course)
I wonder how many switched to MLMs when they were let go from jobs for refusing vaccines? There were more than a few "influencer nurses" on socials a year or so ago that were found to not have an active license or were CNAs representing themselves as LPNs/RNs. At least most of the RNs I used to work with only sold cosmetics or real estate on the side 😅
Good wages and better conditions would remediate a lot of this bs.
I've noticed this too and I wonder if it's because they don't have to go through the same level of biology and biochemistry courses as like a premed student. I did a 4 year bio (and psych) degree and have taken so many courses to understand the micro world while my sister who's an LPN only had to take one entry level bio course. It was equivalent to high school regular bio. Never have to do any sort of virology or molecular biology but they love to use their title to defend their extremely incorrect and anti science BS (very prevalent during covid). Of course not all nurses are like that, just the ones who tout this crap
I dunno. One of my husband's friends from grad school has a PhD in molecular biology and she's turned out to be a COVID denier, sliding into anti-vax and is 100% into woo-woo homeopathic remedies and crystal healing. To this day, I can't figure out how a woman who spoke so thoroughly about cardiomyopathy has done such a 180. You get whack jobs in every level of education.
That takes such a level of cognitive dissonance I feel like. Those two things just can't coexist unless you're making a choice to negate one over the other.
I dunno, man. I took exactly 12 credit hours of biology at university, and I believe in viruses. 🤷♀️
I took 0 credit hours of bio at university, and I understand that viruses are real. (Gen Ed isn't much of a thing outside of US colleges.)
As a nurse, I have to agree. I have worked with quite a few nurses who know just enough to not realize how much they don’t know. I was fortunate in that my BSN program required microbiology. That professor was excellent in his presentation of what vaccine-preventable diseases can do. I’ll never forgot hearing the high death rate for diphtheria, and realizing how lucky I am to even exist, since I knew that one of my grandparents had this disease as a child.
My husband had to take microbiology for his two year ADN. Our daughter was a crawling baby that semester and that is not something that goes well with a parent taking microbiology 😂😂😂
Holy shit I forgot that part of the lore. How can she possibly say this shit??
My friend’s mom was a nurse and got fired because she refused to get the COVID vaccine. Nursing attracts a wide variety of people.
I've met many great nurses, and I've also met many terrible people who also happened to be nurses (and cnas)
Same. I’m not trying to be mean, but some of the dumbest and nastiest people I know ended up nurses and teachers.
They're professions where mean people can have control over vulnerable people.
Ding ding ding. That’s the main point in this story. That’s why you find horrible nurses, because they want to control the health of people. It’s a wild thought for us because we want to help people, not hurt them. I am of the opinion they - including this person- know the truth. But they’re enjoying the maliciousness around sending lies into the world and pulling innocent people in. It’s a game to them, and the damage they do is irrelevant - chances are they barely feel any empathy at all anyway. I have come across a few people who have admitted or openly shared their malicious intents. How it made them happy and feel good to purposely have people fight each other, especially if they were best friends. Or to spread lies about their loved ones, making people think they cheated or have been seeing someone while that’s not true. I have met someone that would intentionally hurt *themselves* just to get a reaction out of others, to see how they would respond. This smugass face is telling me she knows, but she’s enjoying the lie. She wants to see what will happen.
My mother is a hospice nurse and insists that masks do “absolutely nothing”. I have pretty bad myocarditis and really, really cannot handle getting sick on top of my other shit, but she insists this is true. She’s an RN with a BSN.
lots of nurses, unfortunately, peddle essential oil/plexus/other MLM bullshit.
“No you can’t have your vaccine it’ll just make you more sick. So what if you got bit by an infected animal? Psh; viruses don’t exist. It’s all just a scam.” -Her as a nurse, probably.
It's the logical endpoint of anti-vaccine and anti-science conspiracies: denial of germ theory itself. My dad was getting close to that point.
Did…did he get rabies…? You said was, and now I’m concerned. (Seriously though, assuming he is passed on, I’m so sorry. My dad has passed too, but not of rabies. EO Alzheimer’s. Hugs to you.)
No, no, not rabies, lol. During covid, he was sending me weekly emails with all the latest conspiracy theories he believed about the pandemic and vaccines, and at one point, he was jumping on the train that covid wasn't real, that no one had ever seen a covid virus, and that vaccines couldn't work because viruses weren't real anyway. I'm sorry about your father, though! Alzheimer's sucks.
She got confused by the 'viruses are not living' and thought it meant 'viruses aren't real' what a turnip
As someone who literally did my end of bachelor's project on the relation between Trends in Rabies vaccination and epidemiology in my state, let me just say: No. This person can go straight to hell. The whole Lyssavirus genus still visits me in my nightmares.
Did you though? That sounds like exactly what a virus would say if it existed. Or something.
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I’ve read that one of the knock-on effects of this anti-vaxxer shit is more people in the US not getting their pets vaccinated for rabies. Which is the thing we do (did?) well that makes rabies in humans so rare here that these morons can entertain delusions that it doesn’t exist 🙃
I seriously don't get this. In the EU, after vaccinating wildlife with special vaccines for years, it's officially gone. But we still vaccinate every single pet and keep up vaccinating wildlife, on the off-chance of it re-appearing due to animal migration and such. Why would somebody not vaccinate against in while living in an area where it actually appears??
Even in the EU rabies is still found in bats... I used to volunteer at a wildlife rescue and gloves were absolutely required when working with them, a rabies vaccination was recommended. Last year I went to help out with bat research in Uganda and you simply weren't allowed to join if you didn't get your rabies vaccine. Even when vaccinated you still need to get boosters after a suspicious bite, but the vaccine buys you some time. We were working in the middle of nowhere so getting to a place that even had boosters available would take at least a day. I've seen videos of rabid animals and humans during my animal care studies and just can't understand how you would even consider risking that...
In the UK it’s only spread through bats. We don’t give rabies vaccines here in the UK as a routine vaccine because cases are extremely rare.
There's no rabies in bats in the UK, typically the rare infection that happens is picked up on holiday and then treated or discovered back in the UK. Bats in the UK have another lyssavirus (same class) but it isn't the same as rabies. It's European Bat Lyssavirus 1 & 2, and there are other bat carried lyssaviruses worldwide. The same prophylactic care is necessary if you're bitten though, and it also is often fatal if not given prophylactic TX after a bite. It's very rare for humans to be infected though.
It’s very cool that you got to go to Uganda to help with bat research!!
My cats don’t even go outside and I still keep them up to date just in case they get out.
It’s still around in bats, and once every decade or so is found again in wildlife or pets, almost always caused by international travelers. I don’t think it’s ever fully gone as long as we have to deal with people going international and especially bringing their pets. The risk will always be there.
Yeah, we're rabies free in the UK but if you want to legally travel out the country with your dog/cat? rabies vaccine with a 21 day cooldown before travel, if not full titre testing 🤷♀️
Yup. Back in 2019 I was training horses for this anti vaxxer wackjob. She wanted to sell said horses and take them to shows. Fine, they just need to be current with the following vaccinations. She acted like a firing squad was going to come out and not a veterinarian. Thankfully, my own personal horse was kept at a facility where vet care and vaccinations were mandatory. She told me she was okay with animals getting rabies because it’s so “rare” 🙄
So she’s never made the connection between rabies being “rare” and vaccinations? Jeez. These people vote…
YUP. I peeped her fb a few months ago. She went full Q.
They never made that connection for any other illness why would they start now
Everything else aside, aren't show horses super fucking expensive? Why would you willingly risk the life of a horse you potentially spent tens of thousands to buy?!
Yeah, the horse that I got for free has definitely cost me some dollars. People are dumb. I know trainers who are responsible for EHV outbreaks that cost the lives of horses worth 6 figures plus and they don’t GAF. Side note: my horse is cheaper than any of my friends children. We did the math one day 😂
Why would someone be okay with it?!?! No one should be allowed to have an animal if they don’t care about rabies risk (don’t even get me started on humans…)
Because she sold essential oils to cure rabies is my guess
Ooooh, were they the pumpkin spice kind?
worked in vetmed, can confirm the anti vax crazies spilled over on their pets. then they’re all shocked when their dog bites someone and we to tell them either we could quarantine the dog here for 10 days (and vaccinate while here!!!) or do a rabies submission and cut off ur dogs head and mail it to the state. like nah baby you just fucked around and found out. so glad i left healthcare lol
Idk if this is state specific or what but one time my cat was like two days overdue for her vaccines. I took her in for her exam and she was getting feisty with the vet tech. They told me if she bit them at that moment it’d be a required 10 day boarding. Two days overdue! I learned my lesson and now my little beast goes before the vaccines expire.
Licensed veterinary nurse here. I work in a busy ER and while I (thankfully) haven’t seen rabies, we are seeing a lot of parvovirus in pets in part because of this very reason.
As a person who works in the animal medical field. RABIES EXISTS, YOU STUPID IDIOT!!!!
Turns out Michael Scott’s Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro Am Fun Run Race for the Cure was entirely necessary
This. Is a comment of beauty.
And I hear it's a pretty horrific way to die, correct?
Has to be one of the worst ways to go. Especially since it can take a very long time to show symptoms, and by then, it’s way WAY too late.
That's so terrifying. Glad my dogs got their shots recently.
Rabies virus enters neuronal cells via nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. I always thought that was kind of a crazy fact. The virus literally attaches itself to these receptors that are abundantly expressed in the central nervous system, hence why it leads to such awful symptoms.
If memory serves, it is so god damn horrific that in the rare human cases that pop up, they put them into a coma to die. Why the fuck these shitheads want to die like this is beg nd me! You can bet if their kids were ever caught trying to play with a rabid coon or feral dog, they would refuse medical treatment for the child. They really should have their kids taken away. A child's right to live trumps a parent's right to believe horseshit.
Surprisingly so, a number of years back (I want to say 2017 or 2018 ish, (it horrified me because my oldest was the same age as this kid at the time) a 4 year old kid got bit by a bat in Florida because his father brought a sick bat home from his landscaping job in a bucket to try and nurse it back to health. They let their kid play with the sick bat, and when the kid inevitably was scratched or bit, the parents did not vaccinate him. OFC he died a tragic terrible death, literally at the hands of his own parents’ stupidity. Fuck, they were so fucking dumb.
Very horrific, painful and terrifying.
It’s extremely rare for humans but yeah, it’s terrible.
I learned it's rare when I got bit by a stray dog and had to go to the ER. The ER doc told me that there have been 0 reported cases of humans getting rabies from a dog bite in the last 25 years because we have done a good job of making sure dogs are vaccinated. Though all the other critters that carry them are still terrifying af. Like bats.
There’s an episode of Scrubs, “My Lunch,” where a recurring side character dies of rabies. They assumed it was a drug overdose based on symptoms and her organs were put into patients on the donor list. It’s one of the episodes of TV that never fails to make me cry, but also educational! Doctors were surveyed once and considered Scrubs to be one of the most accurate portrayals of the profession (regarding diagnoses, work relationships, etc)
What? You mean all doctors aren't constantly hooking up in on-call rooms? Gray's Anatomy *lied* to me? /s lmao. I have friends in healthcare who also said it's more like Scrubs
No I mean my SIL is a doctor and she *definitely* has had to separate two people who were both skewered on the same piece of rebar while also having deactivated a bomb in someone within the past year. 😂 /s she also agreed that scrubs is fairly accurate minus the general sitcom shenanigans
Oh god. That's awful.
>all the other critters that carry them are still terrifying af. My coworker got bit by a rabbid skunk when she was a child. That was like 60 years ago. But still a terrifying situation. Her parents took her to get treated.
Oh my god that's terrifying.
A few years ago, several congresspeople were attacked by a rabid fox at the Capitol! That was wild!
My daughter was possibly bitten on the head by a bat and I took her to the ER immediately. The last death from rabies in my state was a teenage girl and it was a bat bite. 😔 Always go in if you are around bats and one flies into you, most of the time you don't even know if they bit you. A healthy bat will not purposely hit a human.
Bats are the most common vector for rabies currently in North America, with raccoons trailing behind. I'm so glad you took your daughter to get prophylactic treatment and she's safe. Even a small chance of rabies is too high...
You made the best possible decision! I wouldn’t hesitate either
PS very glad your doctors were able to help you and you didn’t die of rabies. It sounds terrifying
Thanks, me too! AND i'm glad I didn't have to get the shots -- I hear they cost 10k/dose (and there are 5). Plus, I was like sorry, but I have to go on a business trip so this timing really doesn't work for me.
My sister-in-law found a bat in her house and they had her get a rabies vaccine just in case, even though she didn’t have any visible bite marks.
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Yeah, rabies I think is the worst way to die.
Seriously, who hasn't seen that old video of the man dying from rabies?! That is not the thing to play games with.
She’d claim it was from anything BUT rabies
Fundies be like: 
Louis Pasteur save me Save me Edward Jenner
They’re weeping.
The scientists who made discoveries that prevented unnecessary deaths: 
That’s like saying I can float because I don’t believe in gravity 😵💫
I hate to say it but.... if the earth is flat, there's no need for gravity. And I'm sure that if they don't believe viruses exist, they also think the earth is flat.
Cujo and Lassie would like a word
Old Yeller as well.
I cried so much when I saw that movie as a kid 😭 At the time I didn't understand that there was no "getting better" from rabies, so I thought they put him down for no reason
I was the opposite. I would watch Old Yeller and Homeward Bound over and over and over again because I loved the dogs so so much. I guess I too didn’t understand what was really happening to Yeller. Can I watch those movies now without turning k to a blubbering mess? Absolutely not.
I cried so hard when I watched (and read) Where the Red Fern Grows that my dad made fun of me. I'm damn near 40 and the thought still fucks me up.
That is one I have never watched or read and at this age of 33 I refuse to.
They made us read that shit in school. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. I was an animal obsessed sensitive kid. Traumatized lol
I feel you on that. I too was animal obsessed and sensitive which still confuses me on how I could watch some of these movies. We read a book in grade 5 about a dog being found in Pompeii and it told the story of how the dog didn’t make it out of the city and I was traumatized.
Too soon. I don't care that 5th grade was over 30 years ago. I'm still not ready. 😭😭😭
*Rabies virus liked that*
Are these morons going to go on a pet antivaxxer campaign and spread rabies?
Yes, they are, and they have been. One more reason to avoid dog parks.
It’s so maddening to me that these nut cases could ruin something as wholesome as a goddamn dog park.
Dog Park Libertarianism wrecked mine long ago. Nobody picked up after their dogs, the city sprayed regularly with questionable herbicides, it was a swamp of cryptosporidium infections and foul mud. God knows if anyone could pick up parvo from that, but with a senior dog in poor health, I stopped taking chances.
Though of course, these people may already be avoiding dog parks due to all the “shedding”.
😂🤣👏🏻 well played!
I found out a 'friend' (ex friend) got *falsified vaccination certificates from a licensed veterinarian* to import her beloved dog to Australia from the USA. He got thru quarantine and thank god he was fine, he was a very, very good boy. but I was so fucking outraged - you thought you had the right to compromise the *entire biome of an island continent with notoriously strict quarantine* because you don't 'get' vaccination.
Please tell me you reported her to the Australian authorities.
Oh, hell nah! We are a rabies-free country, which is a pretty cool achievement. How dare she. If anyone else hears of a situation like this, please report it. We cannot get rabies here - too many species are becoming endangered as is.
There's been anti vaccine campaigns for pets for a while now. I was a little surprised the insanity didn't transfer to humans sooner. My vet and my PCP are told to vax us all for anything and everything. I'm not catching that bullshit.
I’ll be blunt. If it turns out these fundies are willingly getting back rabies, I have zero empathy if one of their family dies. I’ll be angry when it’s an innocent child but apart from that, I’m done. I can no longer bring any sympathy whatsoever for people who choose to kill and get killed, and bring others with them. Straight to hell, hope they go first. Goodbye. I really don’t care anymore.
Once you're symptomatic, rabies is as close to a 100% fatality rate as you can get with a disease... there's only been a handful of people who ever survived it if they didn't get the vaccine before they showed symptoms. Edit: Treatment includes the vaccine after exposure, and palliative care otherwise. There was an experimental procedure which is no longer considered valid: the Milwaukee protocol, which involves putting the patient into a coma, lowering the body temperature, and administering antivirals and other drugs... which had very little success. But those are the people who survived. There is no toughing it out. If you come into contact with a rabid animal, you need to get vaccinated to avoid contracting it. If you have symptomatic rabies, it's too late and you are effectively already dead.
Yes! And what rabies does to you is terrifying! I lived in the same area and was around the same age as Jenna Giese, she is one of the super rare few that have survived. I’ve always known about rabies but seeing it happen live in your town/age group really cemented the importance of awareness
Is she the young girl who survived using that cooling treatment? I think I heard a Radiolab about it and I’ve been very vigilant and making sure my kids know never to touch wild animals (also my college sent out emails all the time anytime they found a dead bat on campus saying if anyone even thinks they may have touched a bat on the ground they need to go to the health center immediately).
Yes. I remember listening to that episode & it scared the shit out of me. Especially the part where they play the recording of the person with full-blown rabies. Those screams…it still makes me cringe just thinking about it.
There are maybe a couple of dozen cases - I went on a deep dive on this last year and hyperfixated on disease stuff for a while. Had some fun writing up the post, though: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/s/AXlzAiMLSd There are some interesting finds, like the fact that rabies has jumped form bats to dogs multiple times (current dog rabies is less than 2000 years old, but we have 3500+ year old tablets mentioning rabid dogs) and how bats are the problem in some places but dogs in others. Australia has no rabies at all, but does have a related lyssavirus in some bat populations. Rabies is so bad that it was in the oldest law codes we have, and that it was permissable to kill a rabid dog on the Sabbath even in ancient times. People knew not to fuck around with that shit.
Bish. You want to search for videos of actual animals AND PEOPLE dying of rabies? It is NOT a good way to go and we have preventative measures.
It's a nightmarish way to die.
I’m a vet tech. Sadly the anti-vaxx movement is spreading into our field. Rabies is deadly. I’ve had my vaccines and am grateful for it. And these folk should have to clean a parvo ward for a day or two.
Vet here. These people are dangerous. They have not seen what you and I have seen. Watching puppies needlessly die from parvo and kittens needlessly die from panleuk is traumatizing and infuriating. And rabies is so much worse. I’ve had to decap way too many animals in my career for rabies testing all bc people did not get their pets vaccinated. Maybe they should have to assist me while I’m doing that. Vaccines save lives. I’m glad you have your rabies vaccine bc for awhile it was hard for vet techs to get it, at least in my area. I am so thankful that vaccines exist. When I was growing up, canine parvovirus was new, and there was no vaccine, and it was really scary. So many thousands of years of documented cases of human dying from rabies and these idiots want to deny that the rabies virus (and all viruses, I guess) exist. I can’t tell if they really believe it or if it’s just an attempt to get a following by exploiting the ever growing anti vaccine movement. I would like to see what she does if she gets bitten by a stray dog that is not caught to get tested. Wonder if she will still have that smug shit eating grin on face since she’s so certain viruses don’t exist?
oh my goodness. i didn’t know you had to decap animals i’m sooooooooo sorry you’ve seen that 😰
Yeah :/ it's how to test for rabies. The entire head is sent to (usually) a state lab, and the brain is tested. As a former vet tech who once had to hold the frozen dead body of someone's beloved pet while the vet cut the head off with an electric carving knife, fuck these people for their antivax bullshit.
Thank you for the job you do.
Thank you. Things have been tough in vet med the last few years, so the kind words are appreciated 😊
I’m a vet too! Maybe you can answer this, cause no one has been able to so far. Assuming my rabies titre levels are still good (got vaccinated 5 years ago), if I got bitten by a rabid animal and wasn’t aware of it/didn’t seek treatment, would the vaccine alone save my life? Or would I still need to get a booster vaccine/prophylactic shots?
My understanding is that you would still need to have some post exposure treatment. This is from the AVMA: “PrEP doesn’t eliminate the need for additional treatment after rabies exposure. What it does eliminate is the need for post-exposure rabies immunoglobulin administration. It also decreases the number of post-exposure doses of vaccine needed. Rabies PrEP also may provide some protection if post-exposure rabies treatment is delayed or if rabies exposure goes unrecognized.”
Ummmm are you serious?? There is an anti rabies vaccine movement???
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OK we're pretty sure my cat *is* autistic, but so is 50% of the human contingent in this home, so we are not sure whether it was vaccines or maladaptive learning (kidding of course, the cat is just autistic). These anti vaxxers are *this stupid* and yet, they think the issue is *'getting'* autism. Even if vaccines did 'trigger' autism (they do not) *it would still be worth the benefits of eradicating and controlling f--king rabies.*
Pawtisim
omg I love it, thank you. Let's also add - selective meowism.
But how can Parvo exist if VirUsEs dON't eXiSt?! /S From a former vet assistant who has cleaned out a parvo cage or two, unfortunately
Or even distemper! Like why would purposely want to put your animal(s) in harms way
She won't have such a smug smile if she ever gets infected with it. By the time the symptoms show, it's too late. Jesus Christ -\_-;
One of the defining memories of my childhood is a teenager on my swim team dying of rabies from a bat bite that he didn’t even feel. Wtf
That sounds like a traumatic memory, I'm sorry about your teammate. I read a long form article about rabies and the example it gave was from a bat bite that went unnoticed. Their teeth are so small it barely leaves a mark. If you wake up with a bat in your room, they suggest getting the rabies vaccine as a precaution just because it's so hard to tell if you got bit by a bat or not.
This happened to my husband. It was painful and expensive (for a PhD student especially!) and his labmates called him Batman for months, but holy fuck was it worth not having that risk hanging over his head. Just glad I was out of the country at the time and escaped it. 😅
> Hanging over his head I see what you did there
It’s terrifying! As a parent I’m always reminding my kids never to touch any wild animals they see outside, not even if they seem hurt or are laying down.
Holy crap, what?!? How did they find out? Did he just start showing symptoms and head to the doctor? This is nightmare fuel.
Yep, bats are the worst in this regard since they're a significant vector for rabies and they can end up biting you in ways you don't even notice, in my country people are regularly reminded not to make contact with bats and to be extremely vigilant of bites if they live in houses which have bat populations (rare but it still happens in the countryside).
Probably one of my top fears. I worked in a retail store that had bats in the ceiling and I also walked home at night so I'm terrified I've been bitten and don't know it or something.
This seems like a problem that will fix itself with a little time, and a little rabies.
I feel bad, but I cackled at this.
Simple test. You, a rabid bat, a rabid raccoon and a rabid dog all in a small observation room with the door closed. You are monitored for the next year. May the odds he ever in your favor.
oh it won’t take a year
It can, rabies can have a shockingly long incubation period in humans.
I mean, people regularly die of rabies still in developing countries like India. I invite her to spout this bullshit to one of the families who’ve lost kids to it. They’d probably punch her square in her smug mug, and she’d deserve it. Fucking deranged and evil.
the cynic in me went "too bad the videos on the internet of ppl exhibiting rabies symptoms are mostly brown ppl" bc these racist fucks lack the compassion and empathy, and the understanding that it doesn't matter if you're white, rabies will kill you and it will be a horrifically painful death
Is she saying that rabies doesn’t exist? They put us through a unit solely on rabies in one of my high school classes and that has got to be one of the most terrifying diseases out there. If you don’t get the vaccine before the virus reaches your brain you are done for. This is such a dangerous thing to spread if you or your kid get bit by a wild animal get the vaccine.
Normally with a person this disgustingly smug, I'm very "FAFO, dipshit!". But chances are, she's not going to be the one to get sick. It'll be kids, or pets, or other peoples ' kids and pets. And that makes me sick with worry and anger.
Totally sick with worry and behavior. Rabies?! Really?! How effing crazy
Next they’ll be holding rabies parties
It's true, you can only get it once!
Natural selection at its most efficient. 🫠
*laughs in microbiologist*
Laughs in veterinarian with an MPH
Hey, that’s my qualification combo too! Though I’m in a rabies-free country so this particular issue doesn’t really come up thank goodness
Fingers crossed you all stay rabies free in this crazy world. We are dealing with the Rabbit Hemorrhagic Viral Disease virus mutation affecting all our wild rabbits here in the US. Thank Heaven the government finally let us get the vaccine. You can bet money I signed my buns up for their shots as soon as we got it!
I live in NZ and they have deliberately introduced RHVD to cull the rabbit population (an invasive pest) multiple times (both with and without government permission 😑). RHDV2 has been around for about 6 years now. We vaccinate all the pet bunnies here, never occurred to me the vaccine wouldn’t be widely used elsewhere! I always find it wild how much vet med varies country to country
I wish she could talk to a mother in rural India who has had to watch her child die from rabies.
Literal nightmare
Is she stupid or something?
Yes.
She's smug because she lives in a sheltered little american town where the risk of contracting rabies is extremely low. It's easy to be so self assured when you've never witnessed it, the way a wild animal or former pet behaves when it's in the dying stages. She'll claim demonic possession or something if it ever happens to one of her brood.
The irony of these dolts believing in an invisible man in the sky but not viruses
My dad always tells me I can't believe everything I read on the internet but he takes the Bible literally 😭
My thoughts exactly. I cannot believe their logic
There was an article in the WaPo last year about there was an uptick in rabies deaths in 2023 because of anti-vaxxers.
What a DIPSHIT
The fundies are determined to take us into another dark ages
It should hurt to be that stupid.
It should but this chick is out here thriving. SMDH
Well have fun with that if you get it Once the symptoms start, you’re fucked
Pretty sure she has a highlight for RSV which, ya know, is a fucking virus!!! This girl gives the rest of us nurses a bad name. I had to block her because she is so smug in her self righteousness and I want to smack that smugness out of her.
There was a post on r/AskReddit about what was the worst way to die. I was going to vote for Ebola, but the overwhelming consensus was rabies. Miss Smug is welcome to expose herself to this "non-existent" virus and see what happens.
We can literally *SEE* viruses with a microscope, what does she mean IF they exist
Forgetting the whole rabies insanity for a second…this woman literally doesn’t believe in viruses?!!! What is her explanation for when people get a cold or the flu? What exactly is going on in their bodies????
Demons or dark humors, probably.
And Darwin’s Natural Selection Theory for the win
Future Darwin Award winner right here....
Are people really this dumb or is this just rage bait? Please, for the love of the universe, please let it at least be rage bait.
Yeah you know I don’t think I’ll take any kind of life advice from someone who almost let their baby starve to death for IG to see because mommy’s pride is more important than a skeletal newborn
She is literally a trained nurse!!! WTF
Allows her to think herself an expert in the field and makes her appear that way to her audience.
Wait, what? HOW is she a nurse if she does not believe viruses exist. Please tell me she no longer has a license to practice. Uuuuugggghhhh these people. She reminds me of that crazy Covid denier nurse who tried to demonstrate to their community board or something that Covid was a hoax and the vaccine turned you into a magnet or something. She tried to stick coins on herself during her testimony to prove she was magnetic 🤣🤣🤣
She was not taught in nursing school that rabies and viruses don’t exist. She’s chosen to abandon the tenets of nursing practice but still use her credentials to spread information that isn’t evidence-based. It’s despicable.
Nothing to do with viruses, but I once saw a Reddit post from this anti-abortion person who was studying to become an OB/GYN. They said they had a whole mental breakdown over having to perform a fake abortion in a papaya 😭😭 Fucking crazy that anyone can get a degree.
I live in a country with no rabies. Every few years some entitled celeb tries to smuggle their fur baby in on a private flight and then get all shocked pickachu when it gets quarantined for 6 months and they get a massive fine. Countries with no rabies have insane biosecurity measures to keep it out. But sure, let's question if it's even real. I guarantee if they got bitten by a rabid animal they would suddey believe viruses are real as they go to get the vaccine.
lol I’m sorry what?
as a nurse,,, it’s times like these where I wish natural selection was a bit more prominent these days
She used to be a nurse, too! It’s baffling.
Honestly curious, because it seems as if since Covid, there have been an awful lot of nurses that have gone off the rails like this. Any theories as to why? I know it’s a super stressful job. But… why is it so often nurses? 😬
I mean you unfortunately see all the flaws in the healthcare system and I think some people just get sucked in and take it all the way
Rabies is legitimately terrifying.
I live in a country without rabies (officially) and still feel paranoid about it when I encounter certain animals in the wild 💀
Oh lord, this person is ignorant. Rabies is documented in ancient medicine texts from Greece and Rome, as well as other ancient civilisations (Egypt, Persia, etc). It is a horrible, painful way to die - and it IS fatal. There is no way to survive it unless you get IMMEDIATE medical attention BEFORE symptoms begin to show and get a series of vaccination injections. Once the rabies symptoms show up (within days of exposure), you will be dead within 14 days - and it will be awful. You will suffer immensely. There is no cure, which is why we focus so hard on prevention and minimising exposure. I fucking hate science-phobic people like this. They kill progress.
Say sike right fuckin now
Jfc. Rabies has a 100% mortality rate after symptoms start. It’s definitely not something to fuck with.