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I too have been surprised. I'm more surprised about physicians turning it down than nurses. I love nurses, we've got 15 on our payroll, they're kind and wonderf

I too have been surprised. I'm more surprised about physicians turning it down than nurses. I love nurses, we've got 15 on our payroll, they're kind and wonderfully exceptional people. But they operate heavily under various protocols outlined for them, and while they have more health knowledge than your random person when it comes to the nitty gritty details they are naïve. The number of nurses who think that the mRNA vaccines permanently alter your DNA would surprise you. My hope is that after the roll out and the number of serious adverse events is shown to be miniscule, people will be less reluctant to take the vaccine.

amanaplanacanal 6y ago
I’m not even in health care and I have a reasonable understanding of how dna, rna, translation and transcription work. Do nurses not learn this stuff?
- davrosthedalek 6y ago
  Not sure about nurses, but a broad section of the population does not know how percentages work. This is true for almost all countries. The width in science skills is breathtaking.
- f6v 6y ago
  You’d be surprised how many software developers have no idea how https works.
- viggity 6y ago
  lol. no. no way. I would guess that about 2/3 of our nurses could give you the 8th grade explanation of dna - "a sperm and an egg each contribute half of each chromosome and that is the instruction book on how to make every cell blah blah blah". rna, translation and transcription. I don't think a single one would know. They need to know the common drugs in their field, how to take vitals, when to raise the red flag to a physician. That's it. That is all still super important, if they don't use it at least once a year, they're not going know.
testfoobar 6y ago
IMHO, there either has to be a mandate or a personal incentive to get to herd immunity faster. With the low fatality rates for younger people, the personal incentive to get the vaccine is not high. This leaves mandates. Workplaces and schools can do this.

amanaplanacanal 6y ago

I’m not even in health care and I have a reasonable understanding of how dna, rna, translation and transcription work. Do nurses not learn this stuff?

davrosthedalek 6y ago
Not sure about nurses, but a broad section of the population does not know how percentages work. This is true for almost all countries. The width in science skills is breathtaking.
f6v 6y ago
You’d be surprised how many software developers have no idea how https works.
viggity 6y ago
lol. no. no way. I would guess that about 2/3 of our nurses could give you the 8th grade explanation of dna - "a sperm and an egg each contribute half of each chromosome and that is the instruction book on how to make every cell blah blah blah". rna, translation and transcription. I don't think a single one would know. They need to know the common drugs in their field, how to take vitals, when to raise the red flag to a physician. That's it. That is all still super important, if they don't use it at least once a year, they're not going know.

testfoobar 6y ago

IMHO, there either has to be a mandate or a personal incentive to get to herd immunity faster. With the low fatality rates for younger people, the personal incentive to get the vaccine is not high. This leaves mandates. Workplaces and schools can do this.