My Mom’s a pediatric oncology nurse and she said basically the same thing about COVID. “What’s the big deal, it’s been around forever.” Then bam the world shutdown.
Dude, I’m sorry; it’s not the same thing. Virologists were freaking the fuck out about COVID-19. Your mom being qualified to nurse children with cancer does not qualify her literally at all to give a prediction on the virology of an emergent outbreak. You may as well have said she was a vet tech.
Totally valid. I guess it’s a balance between panicking too early (cruise ships are literally just big petrie dishes), and identifying a valid pandemic threat. Either way, for the moment I’m more worried about the mice in my house
My Mom’s a pediatric oncology nurse and she said basically the same thing about COVID. “What’s the big deal, it’s been around forever.” Then bam the world shutdown.
Dude, I’m sorry; it’s not the same thing. Virologists were freaking the fuck out about COVID-19. Your mom being qualified to nurse children with cancer does not qualify her literally at all to give a prediction on the virology of an emergent outbreak. You may as well have said she was a vet tech.
Some of the most medically uninformed people I have ever known have been nurses. They somehow all always want antibiotics to treat a (viral) cold.
Yeah, yeah, “all” is an exaggeration, but I don’t trust a nurse’s medical knowledge any more than I do that of any other random person.
Thanks for telling me the point I made…
Totally valid. I guess it’s a balance between panicking too early (cruise ships are literally just big petrie dishes), and identifying a valid pandemic threat. Either way, for the moment I’m more worried about the mice in my house