GrumpyRN NP

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Retired ENP, 35+ years of experience. From Scotland.

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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    D*mn baloney, you beat me to it.
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Seriously???? That's what your going with??? I'm trying to protect supplies for the people on the front line who are most at risk because my government did not listen to the pandemic playbook...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Dr. Anthony Fauci says he doesn't regret joining other Trump administration public health experts in advising Americans against buying masks early on in the COVID-19 pandemic. In an interview...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Actually Wuzzie, I quite liked that. Not saying it's true, because it is the first time I have come across that as a theory but it does make a kind of sense. Saying that, my atheistic proclivities are...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "What a difference a day makes with Dr Fauci comeback The expert's insistence on scientific fact was so infuriating to Donald Trump he was banished from giving briefings in the end."...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Add to this that it also does not contain any animal or fetal
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Then perhaps if everyone got the vaccine this would be
  8. GrumpyRN

    allnurses Positive Thread

    GrumpyRN replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    When my father died 3 or 4 years back the people on Allnurses were extremely nice and supportive. Simple things like chatting over on the Daily Diary side helped me. Yes, yes I know this is going...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    A 30 second Google tells you that what you wrote is nonsense. Here's a quick one I found, with link. For those who don't read past the headlines, a concerning narrative appears — "Fifteen...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thank you for replying, if you have been following this thread it has developed into an us versus them, vaccine or not vaccine. From that point of view (page 7 now) you have joined the no vaccine...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I call BS. There are always going to be reactions so don't make it sound worse than it probably was. Anecdotal evidence is worthless. And can I say PPE here? Or are you trying to say...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And with that paragraph you have a) lost the argument, b) shown your prejudices and c) show that you are willing to misrepresent facts. Ad hominem attacks are never a good look when trying to...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You keep saying this^^ all it does is shows you don't understand how vaccines work! Vaccines work by training and preparing the body’s natural defences – the immune system – to recognize...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was going to unpack this litany of nonsense and had started to look up facts, figures and all manner of data and then realised; you appear to be a covid denier so anything I write or say will...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Are you
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Two words; "Herd Immunity." Not everyone had a Smallpox vaccination (I have) but that has been eradicated. We almost got rid of Measles but thanks to stupid people (yes I do mean stupid...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Cockwomble Cockwomble (noun) A person, usually male, prone to making outrageously stupid statements and/or inappropriate behavior while generally having a very high opinion of his own wisdom and...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Apology not required ??. A lot of resistance to the vaccine is coming from poor knowledge and/or deliberate misstatements. A problem in US is it is still classified as "experimental" whereas in...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If your parents are Geordies you should let them see this; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-56071386 They can no longer say "coals to Newcastle."
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was going to reply to this nonsense but macawake and nursej22 have said it eloquently
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    That was me, and you have still answered your own
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Actually no. People in the USA are not trusting because until recently you had an anti science, anti truth leadership. Not singling out just the US as the UK has a cockwomble of a prime minister...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Exactly, IN THE US!! As has been pointed out, I am not in the US. I have not been snarky, OP asked for an opinion and I gave them mine. JKL33 did not write that quote, I did....
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You ask a question, the part I have bolded, then in the next part shown you answer that
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Exactly, that is something I say every time we have an election. I don't care who you vote for but I do care that you vote. I watched a documentary on exactly this just last night...