My spouse is a nurse and this is very true. One of her coworkers died alone at home lying in a pile of her own feces because she refused to get vaccinated; another nurse was fired for stealing drugs; another explains to every patient she meets that she is Puerto Rican even though she can’t speak Spanish and has never been there (she is just white); I can still get my spouse to mask.

It's honestly fuckin wild the spectrum of people in healthcare I've seen. From sweetest bleeding hearts, incompetent idiots you're amazed are still alive, outright sociopaths, people still in highschool, and peeps you wouldn't let provide care to people you outright despise. For nurses politically it's either liberal or nascant leftist, to outright chud fash.

Anyone that says "As an infection control nurse..." shouldn't be taken at their word. The most braggadocios are normally the least able. Always remember that 50% of doctors/nurses were in the bottom 50% of their class.

I can see it clearly on my unit, I have people that'll take it seriously, people that refuse to mask, and people that refuse to mask and vaccinate. We don't have a problem once we have a confirmed case since at that point it's just PPE enforcement and opinions go out the door.

I will say though that a lot of this shit comes from the top and the CDC has been absolute dogshit at providing guidance thus we have such shitty standards. Though at the same time we all see what COVID does but since it's not going anywhere people are just accepting it as the new normal because what else is there? Lockdown the country, something they didn't even do when there was momentum for it? The ruling class has abandoned all pretenses and people are moving on and just accepting that this is reality for healthcare now and no matter what you do, it finds its way back over and over and over again.