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H5N1 Bird Flu Isn’t a Human Pandemic—Yet. American Contrariness Could Turn It into One
(www.scientificamerican.com)
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Can we please put some kindergarten nannies in charge of that nation…?
I've seen some freaking health professionals go full anti-mask and anti-vax. Like one of my friends is an RN and she went full Facebook Karen.
You can't fix stupid.
Yeah covid revealed there are a LOT of registered nurses i do not want involved in my health care.
Like, a lot
I've seen the same here in Finland too. What is it with nurses going off the reich wing anti-vax / anti-mask deep end?
They want to help people, but all the science stuff is boring. I guess.
Probably a nontrivial amount of wanting to feel smarter than "those know-it-all doctors with their fancy degrees" with a side of Dunning-Kruger
That is genuinely freaky. I mean they should know better. Like way better.
I don't think you understand just how stupid my fellow country members are. We literally say "hey to prevent getting yourself and others sick, you should do these steps" making it a suggestion of reasonable things.
the response "my freedoms are being trampled". I fucking wish they actually were.
The scary thing is that that frame of mind exists elsewhere as well. But I guess it’s more of it in the US.
That would be some really cool data to view "how stubborn are the attitudes in different countries" and "how many personalities are stubborn in different countries"
I like foolhardy in this context. And a foolhardy index would be interesting.
true true, that's an excellent term for it. If only we could somehow assess it with metrics and data
I don’t have a solution for that, unfortunately.
republiQans. We’re talking about republiQans.
(Okay, fine and also some nazis, Qultists, some facebook boomers, a fair few Libertarians, and some woowoo newager people.)
But, look, just say republiQans and have done with it. “Americans” is more than too general, it’s an absolute cop-out.
You know, looking at world news, maybe kindergarten nurses should be in charge of the world?
edit: this was an odd double post.