Red Cross Nurse Injects 8,600 with Saline Instead of Covid Vaccine
I worry that something is going awry with the way this stuff is being approached. This is clearly criminal really but I wonder a bit about the medical and regulatory culture surrounding it and how it might be backfiring and fueling it further.<p>Today I learned about a case where a local pediatrician was disciplined for discouraging childhood vaccinations (not just COVID but vaccinations in general, pre-COVID; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startribune.com&#x2F;minnesota-pediatrician-disciplined-for-discouraging-childhood-vaccines&#x2F;600087021&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startribune.com&#x2F;minnesota-pediatrician-disciplin...</a>).<p>I&#x27;m very pro-vaccine, and disagree strongly with the physician, but am also disturbed that a licensed physician can be threatened with losing their right to practice because they disagree with the field. As part of the settlement, for example, the pediatrician was ordered &quot;to remove information from his website that was critical of vaccine safety research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.&quot; Even given his criticisms, 80% of his patients were still vaccinated.<p>I&#x27;m mentioning it here because I sort of wonder if people like that nurse have an outlet to say &quot;no, I don&#x27;t feel comfortable administering this vaccine&quot; as a matter of principle without being in danger of losing their job. The nurse might just have been on some kind of unhinged vigilante mission, but I feel like the sociopolitical dynamics around these issues are crossing into some territory I feel really uncomfortable with, on both sides.<p>Again, am not defending the actions of this nurse <i>at all</i>, as they are really a different issue, but I worry somewhat that certain policies might encourage this kind of behavior more, or at least add fuel to the fire of the kinds of wild conspiracy theories that underlie antivax movements in general. At some level, I don&#x27;t really think the COVID vaccine controversy is really about the COVID vaccines, it&#x27;s about government control and regulation in general. I often feel like people are talking past each other and making things worse.