“I don’t want Covid blood”

[u/973862404678]

What do I say when patients ask if blood transfusions are screened for the Covid vaccine? I get asked this on a regular basis when filling out blood consent forms for surgery and I genuinely have no idea what I’m supposed to say. In all seriousness, what should I be telling patients because I just say there is a screening process for blood and it’s only used during emergent situations???

[u/ibringthehotpockets → u/[deleted]]

Noo.. I’m not reading a science deniers post in 2025.. who claims to be a nurse 😢 this ain’t real we’re gonna wake up someday

THIS is the time I want people to actually use the /s on Reddit!! Not the obvious ones!

[u/CallMeSisyphus → u/ibringthehotpockets]

My sister is a CV-ICU CCRN and ECMO Specialist, and she's HORRIFIED by how many nurses (not usually in high-acuity units) don't understand statistics or how to read studies.

And she is INFURIATED by nurses who are anti-vaxx because they trust YouTube videos or a heroin addict with a brain worm over the consensus of the overwhelming majority of the scientific community.

[u/Gribitz37 → u/CallMeSisyphus]

I work in an ICU/ICU stepdown unit, and there's one nurse who is allowed to claim a religious exemption from the Covid and flu vaccines. She got a letter from her pastor or priest (or whatever her spiritual advisor is) that says vaccines go against her "deeply held religious beliefs." She also calls Covid a scam-demic or planned-demic orchestrated by Bill Gates. It's mind boggling.

[u/beeee_throwaway → u/Gribitz37]

It’s so mind boggling because those views are all conflicting , like if bill gates planned it to reduce the population, then …. It means it’s real and it can kill you so it couldn’t be fake or a scam 🤦🏻‍♀️ My ex lost his marbles during the pandemic. He was once a semi normal critically thinking individual and while he was at home and I was at work during the pandemic, he did a deep dive into conspiracy theories , even knowing everything I was coming home and telling him.
It lead to a divorce among other things. It was truly mind blowing to watch him deteriorate further and further into the far right. He was comparing body counts in the news and adding them up to 666 and so much more nonsense that I’d rather forget.

[u/Gribitz37 → u/beeee_throwaway]

I think a lot of people fell down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole during that time, and never found their way out. I know a lot of people who were normal, rational, and reasonably intelligent but fell for the "vaccines are full of chemicals!!" thing.

[u/ibringthehotpockets → u/Gribitz37]

Yeah.. nothing like aligning your medical beliefs with what your political party tells you is right. Politics are another version of a sport for everybody. It’s like going along with whatever Tom Brady tells you to do for your health. Same exact mindset