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Most people sure. But mid-covid a lot of otherwise sane very intelligent people (cough coworkers *cough) fell for this rubbish. Probably a side effect of the is
by elp 3y ago
Most people sure. But mid-covid a lot of otherwise sane very intelligent people (cough coworkers *cough) fell for this rubbish. Probably a side effect of the isolation and getting fed echo chamber nonsense 8 hours plus a day.
You could even forgive this if it was just the times, but scum like "Front line Doctors" and Steve Kirsch actively and knowingly pumped the misinformation to sell snake oil. This is the absolute least they deserve
- drcongo 3y agoJudging by my downvotes I think there's a few on here that fell for it too. The only people I ever saw talking about hydroxychloroquine here in the UK were the "chemtrails" crowd, and they were falling for every scam going.
- photodegradable 3y ago[dead]
- zabzonk 3y agoi was in hospital in the UK at the height of the epidemic (for other reasons) and nobody ever suggested any treatment except immunisation.
- mrguyorama 3y agoHere in the US, nurses were pretty prone to believing in snake oil for covid. They're the same people who have always been prone to MLMs so....
- Obscurity4340 3y agoShould be Medical Lies and Manipulations
- zabzonk 3y agoat least in the uk, nurses don't prescribe
- mrguyorama 3y agoNurses don't have to be able to legally prescribe to give you off the record advice and seem like "medically aware" people to those around them. So many people take Nurses as medical gospel even though plenty of nurses don't really take their teachings as ground truth, and they aren't exactly taking immunology anyway, with very little foundational knowledge in a Nursing degree program in terms of how medicine works, as well as less rigorous statistics than your average high schooler. What they do learn is how all your bones and muscles and organs work and work together, and a bunch of microbio (so they would understand things like how sodium and potassium affect muscle function), and introductory classes on human psychology, and classes about how drugs interact. Notable things nurses in this program don't learn that are relevant to COVID: Immunology, so nurses should be expected to know roughly as much as the average person about how your immune system works, and how diseases spread, and how they evolve, genetics, how to write (and read) scientific papers, enough statistics to understand what might be problematic in a scientific paper, accounting (so many myths came from or through nurses that "hospitals are counting covid deaths wrong for money", while they could never seem to explain how that worked). Nursing is not pre-med.
- zabzonk 3y ago> Nurses don't have to be able to legally prescribe to give you off the record advice and seem like "medically aware" people to those around them sure, the can do that, and get sacked for malpractice while they are at it.
- NikkiA 3y agoYes they do, they're called 'Nurse Practicioners' and have become the primary prescription interface for most group practices in the last few years. https://www.rcn.org.uk/about-us/our-influencing-work/policy-briefings/POL-1512 https://www.rcn.org.uk/about-us/our-influencing-work/policy-...
- NikkiA 3y agoThere's a disturbing amount of conspiracy mindedness on HN, pretty much always has been.
- marcosdumay 3y agoPeople have a really hard time with "there is no treatment for helping you right now, go home and rest". That happens to every kind of sickness, at every segment of society.