Agree. People should not be losing jobs or medical treatment over this. I'd be very concerned if my job was askin me about my vaccination history or requiring a vaccine mandate over a new job.
Disagree. People can post what they like on their private social media accounts. Especially if these accounts are only for friends and family.
Agree.
That may depend on how it was initially framed when linked before being posted here, and how covid versus pneumonia versus respiratory diseases in general might have been categorised, confirmed denied etc with the potential of hiccups in translation.So, it's not a propaganda tweet, just a tweet with a film of someone falling asleep while on guard duty? Misinterpreted by the poster here as relating to covid.
I understand your point however it's not really 'private' anymore if people who see it, like yourself, then go and tell everyone 'the nurses I know are furious that people aren't vaccinated' which is kind of the point. The NMC guidance on social media use (https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/nmc-publications/social-media-guidance.pdf) explicitly says 'do not post anything on social media that does not recognise individual choice' and reminds nurses that even social media accounts with strict privacy settings have limitations. Not to mention medical professionals on social media may have friends and family who themselves are not vaccinated, which they should consider before posting opinions like that.
No it was tweeted by Chinese accounts back in January 2020 saying it was a reaction to covid-19. The poster doctorwibble actually just made that up about it being a guard falling asleep because they refuse to believe the propaganda, and you are believing them because it also suits your agenda even though they have said it’s a reaction to covid.So, it's not a propaganda tweet, just a tweet with a film of someone falling asleep while on guard duty? Misinterpreted by the poster here as relating to covid.
I didn't make anything up.
No, you made it up because absolutely nowhere does it say that the man is a guard and he fell asleep? It literally says he fainted from a reaction to covid, why are you denying that these stories were coming out of China?
At the end of the day it's free speech and sharing of a news article about unvaccinated people in ICUs and people are allowed to post what they want.
Videos *claiming to show*, which even the DM admits it was unable to verify.
Person in dark coat with white writing on it, standing next to an entrance, coat is shown to have big writing on the back, maybe this is something they do for patients over there, leave them loitering outside?
I’m sorry but they aren’t. That’s literally why all the medical professional regulators have guidance on social media use and they’re very strict about it precisely so that some HCPs don’t undermine trust in their professions through misguided posts.
www.thesun.co.uk
And how is a private Instagram account where there's no public indication that the person even is a medical professional breaching that at all?
Why does it matter if they are private or public? They are a professional and using their public account to spout biased views that involves their line of work. Doesn’t matter if it’s to 10k people on Instagram or just you’re friends and family.
You’ve identified them as nurses. I’m assuming their followers know they’re nurses. Unless they literally go through all their followers to ask if they’re pro vaccine or not, its an incredibly foolish thing to do. Not to mention they’re also relying on the discretion of those followers to not do things like, go on forums saying ‘the nurses I follow are furious at the unvaccinated.’ So yet another another reason why it’s a stupid thing for them to do, because people can screenshot it and make it available.
So how comes posters who express an anti-vaccination opinion are allowed to come on here and say "Hey the nurses I know are against vaccinations etc.". Genuinely curious as to why this is different? In principle to me it seems like it would be the same as it's still offering health advice, and spreading opinions onto forums to spread what they are saying. Which has happened already several times in this thread.
I haven’t said anyone is allowed or not allowed to do anything. You said medical professionals you know are posting that they’re furious about the unvaccinated on their own social media accounts, which is not at all analogous to someone coming on here and saying ‘oh some (unidentifiable) doctor I know is anti vaccine.’ The nurses you know are identifying themselves to have an opinion by posting it on their accounts. You then defended that by saying it’s private - I am simply pointing out to you, in line with the NMC guidance, how easily and quickly ‘private’ opinions advertised on ‘private’ social media accounts become public. It’s also not about health advice, the health advice is you make your own choice so as a nurse, not display that you’re ‘furious’ at those who have made what you consider to be the ‘wrong’ one.
The first reply to the tweet contains the translation
My own remarks were me trying to make sense of what or who might be behind this 'covid propaganda', whatever that is supposed to be.
The tweet translation (attached again for reference) refers to a 'wuhan pneumonia patient' - I think based upon a time when fearmongering propaganda was coming out of China, and a respiratory disease originating from Wuhan was at the centre of it all - we can safely assume they are insinuating Covid.
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Glad you experience was a good one.I had my booster vaccine this afternoon. It was Moderna (I had AZ as my first two) and I had to wait 15 mins before leaving. (Which feels like a long time when you're sat there.
I was very impressed with how well run the whole thing was and it was much busier than I'd been expecting! There was me thinking there'd be one nurse giving boosters every 10 mins or so, but there were at least four working simultaneously. They, along with all the check-in staff, were very efficient and friendly. The NHS is great.
I wonder if they’ll be giving boosters to under 40’s in the next few months.
