Medical professionals spent a full year trying to get people to take COVID seriously, and now they’re facing the same challenges trying to convince people that vaccines are safe. It’s exhausting enough for the rest of us to try to get our loved ones to listen to science and reason, but for healthcare workers, it sounds like an absolute nightmare.
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One doctor took to TikTok to express his frustrations in dealing with an anti-vaxxer patient, and to explain why the mentality that so many of them have is infuriating.
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Sitting in his car, @doctormorbius38 shared that his final patient of the day came into his office spewing all sorts of anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories recently.
“I didn’t really want to have argument, but he just kept going and going. And then there was one moment where he said something that really just sent me over the f—king edge,” he said. “The part where he says, ‘Well, you know what doc? Your opinion is just as valid as mine is.’”
That, @doctormorbius38 says, is “the f—king problem that we have in this country.”
“Very trained scientists and f—king medical professionals that are having educated opinions about all of this [are] being equated to people that have basically almost no scientific f—king background at all,” he said. “If you’re not medically trained or scientifically trained on this subject matter, your opinion is not equal to others that are.”
The doc has a point. Everyone is certainly welcome to their own opinion, but not all opinions are created equal. Researching something on YouTube will never equate to years and years and years of learning from books, professionals in your field, and day-to-day job experience.
People who feel the anti-science crowd have been too coddled by politicians and societal leaders who don’t want to risk losing their support or making waves were glad to hear the doctor call it like it is.
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Of course, we are still faced with the question of what to do about it, as being anti-knowledge, anti-education, and anti-science seems to be a badge of pride for far too many people. And as cathartic as a TikTok angry about people being reckless and willfully ignorant may be, it seems unlikely to bring the anti-vaxxer movement to a screeching halt.
But if we could at least get people who aren’t anti-vaxxers to stop treating these people’s opinions as equally valid compared to those of actual medical professionals, that would be an excellent start.
*First Published: July 16, 2021, 7:10 am
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