Using Your Nursing Credentials to Validate Anti-Vaxxer Theories

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As nurses we are supposed to understand and follow science. Yet all over the country nurses are using their background to validate crackpot theories about Covid and the vaccine. Should there be consequences for leading an effort to hurt the public health? After all, it violates basic nursing ethics in particular, do no harm. Should boards of nurses sanction these people or should the ANA or other associations put out a statement saying these folk don't represent us?

Specializes in Physiology, CM, consulting, nsg edu, LNC, COB.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
10 hours ago, Jeckrn1 said:

E. coli is spread by contact not an airborne and you talk about my credibility. So care to play again? 

Personal after deploying and serving with NATO forces. 

Maybe you could clarify what you think the characteristics of respiratory viral transmission are that isn't mitigated by using masks as source control?  Why is there evidence that they do reduce transmission if you are correct?

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Specializes in Travel Nurse, All ICU specialties and ED.
On 9/17/2021 at 8:38 AM, Jeckrn1 said:

Why is it that everyone including physicians are called misguided if the do not follow the government narrative and look at all the data and come up with their on conclusion. If I guessed I would say 75-80% of the surgeons & doctors I work with say that the mask mandates do not work and they are not too sure about the vaccines. 

Because it is not a "government narrative" to encourage wearing masks and getting vaccinated. It's what the current evidence suggests. We are almost 2 years in and many posters on this thread (and allllllllll the others about covid) have shared data and articles from reputable sources on the things each individual can do to stop the spread of this horrible virus. 

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Specializes in Operating room, ER, Home Health.

Just look at the data and it shows that the mask mandate does not work. As stated in a earlier post per the CDC from early September, Florida only had 3 more cases per 100 of population vs California. Remember Florida has been open without a mandate and California has been closed with a mandate. 

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Specializes in Critical Care.
38 minutes ago, Jeckrn1 said:

Just look at the data and it shows that the mask mandate does not work. As stated in a earlier post per the CDC from early September, Florida only had 3 more cases per 100 of population vs California. Remember Florida has been open without a mandate and California has been closed with a mandate. 

Florida's new case rate is currently more than double that of California and Florida has the third highest rate of cumulative cases of any state, California is 37th. 

This is consistent with the rest of the data looking at mask compliance with community spread, lower mask compliance equals higher rates of community transmission.

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Specializes in Operating room, ER, Home Health.

Flordia16.6, NY 12.7 & CA 11.9 cases per 100 of population.  Both NY and CA are also pretty much shut down.  So if the state is shut down is it mask compliance or is it people are not allowed to move about that is decreasing the number of cases?

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.
3 hours ago, Jeckrn1 said:

Flordia16.6, NY 12.7 & CA 11.9 cases per 100 of population.  Both NY and CA are also pretty much shut down.  So if the state is shut down is it mask compliance or is it people are not allowed to move about that is decreasing the number of cases?

Are you asking questions now? Didn't you just tell us with confidence that you believe masks don't work?

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Specializes in Operating room, ER, Home Health.
3 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Are you asking questions now? Didn't you just tell us with confidence that you believe masks don't work?

It shows making people fear to live in a normally works. Not mask mandates. 

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.
37 minutes ago, Jeckrn1 said:

It shows making people fear to live in a normally works. Not mask mandates. 

No, it doesn't show that.  You just don't think that masks are a tool of value in mitigating an airborne contagion...that's what you've told us previously.  You're wrong.   

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Specializes in Operating room, ER, Home Health.
23 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

No, it doesn't show that.  You just don't think that masks are a tool of value in mitigating an airborne contagion...that's what you've told us previously.  You're wrong.   

Sorry the numbers support that mask don’t work. Because if the did FL would have a huge number of infections compared to NY & CA. What you forget to look at is not mask but how are the people allowed or not allowed to live in the respected states. 

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.
39 minutes ago, Jeckrn1 said:

Sorry the numbers support that mask don’t work. Because if the did FL would have a huge number of infections compared to NY & CA. What you forget to look at is not mask but how are the people allowed or not allowed to live in the respected states. 

Your analysis is incorrect and in conflict with expert opinion. 

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