• JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social
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    9 hours ago

    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.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      My Mom’s a pediatric oncology nurse and she said

      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.

    • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works
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      7 hours ago

      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