That's an interesting bit of hyperbole, but it's not a bad place to start thinking. I always find it nice to be able to come to attention with just that sort of a moment that you seem to be relishing.
It provides for an extensive exercise in critical thinking.
I was contemplating why it is that when nurses were quitting their jobs at hospitals, that they didn't seem to be able to enunciate for the cameras an argument about the vaccine. They simply stuck with slogans, such as freedom and personal choice.
Honestly, any first year biology survey course arms people who work in hospitals with the means to ask probing questions when a patient seems to inopportunely die on the table.
My stepmother had a long and storied career as a respiratory therapist. These adjuncts in the hospital do their best to be responsive to the patients' needs, but the doctors have limited time with each patient. They aren't hovering over him or her, listening.
The question, however, is "can a career in nursing be sustainable if the person raises uncomfortable questions after that little twitch of the finger caused the scalpel to enter the artery next to the tumor?"
The answer is of course no... and the mortgage doesn't pay for itself as the kids are growing up.
We need to accept, as Americans, the importance of the intelligence and conscientiousness of employees - even when the questions they ask, or the letters they submit, make us uncomfortable.
If they support witholding meds based on political theater, they're fucking criminals.
FTFY
Nurses quitting because they do not want to risk the side effects from the vaccine are not the people who are withholding valuable treatments from patients.
It's the pharmaceutical companies which have the money and the connections to snuff out this research.
And yes these companies DO have the journalists in their back pocket.
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