• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    3 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.

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      1 hour ago

      Some of the most medically uninformed people I have ever known has 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.