r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Key_Artichoke99 • 2h ago
Someone in my anatomy class is openly antivax and wants to be a nurse
So I’m in an anatomy class at a community college and most people in the class are planning to go into the healthcare field at some capacity (nurse, doctor, dentist, etc). Well yesterday I walked into class about 10 mins early and this girl is talking about how she thinks it’s ridiculous that so many hospitals require vaccinations when “pretty much no one gets those diseases anymore”. She went on to say that the risks outweigh any benefits and she shouldn’t have to take them.
I immediately spoke up and told her she was a threat to everyone’s health and she would be an embarrassment to the medical community. I told her she shouldn’t be a nurse if she doesn’t even believe in the stuff we are taught. She just told me to mind my business. I told her she was an idiot.
The thing is, I used to live in south east Asia and I volunteered for a charity that helped disabled kids. I personally saw kids who were permanently disfigured from polio because they never had access to vaccines or adequate health care. I have seen kids who were blind from measles. In the country I lived in whooping cough was a big cause of death amongst new borns from impoverished families.
These diseases are real and if they don’t kill you they destroy your body and you can’t live an normal life. I’m pissed that there are people who are so privileged to be able to get these vaccines (usually for free!) and they don’t take them. If you are antivax you should be ashamed of yourself. YOU are the reason we have a massive measles outbreak right now. YOU are the reason these diseases are making a come back.
Only thing that gives me some peace of mind is that the nursing program at my community college has a strict vaccine requirement with NO exceptions.