Nursing began in the convents and priories of medieval England, and for most of its history has been intertwined with the religious vocation of Catholic nuns. Our modern and thoroughly secular nursing profession bears little resemblance to this original version, and it’s not just technology in medicine that has changed.
The dancing TikTok nurses, the authoritarian gorgons in blue scrubs and face masks preventing families from holding the hands of dying loved ones during the Covid “pandemic” are about as distant from Florence Nightingale as you can get. |
Western people got a look at this difference during the “pandemic,” finding themselves bossed around, looked down on, or even deprived of essential care by doctors and nurses who had gone hysterical about vaccine status. This article in BMC Medical Ethics seems almost sympathetic to medical professionals who refused to treat patients who would not submit to the experimental vaccines.
“Moral dilemmas have arisen concerning whether physicians and other providers should treat patients who have declined COVID vaccination and are now sick with this disease. Several ethicists have argued that clinicians have obligations to treat such patients, yet providing care to these patients has distressed clinicians, who have at times declined to do so.”
For the first time, patients began to understand that doctors and nurses are not immune to sadism. And these people haven’t gone anywhere. They’re still in the profession. And the end of the so-called pandemic has not moderated their animosity to patients; they’ve just found another reason to hate them.
Even after all we’ve seen, it’s astonishing to witness a nurse like this one openly deride patients who voted for Donald Trump. Making fun of them in public social media videos is bad enough. But this woman took delight in suggesting that she’d let trauma patients go untreated in the emergency room since they had it coming for being Trump voters.
“I just found a way to combine my MAGA-hating with my work in the ER,” she says, dripping with sarcasm.
Listen to the rest:
Every Twitter/X thread from LibsofTikTok has thousands of responses; here’s a sampling of the public’s reaction:
This user identified the pattern:
