It’s so much worse than just the nurses. I work alongside a host of different first responder groups, and the vast majority of them are unvaxed conspiracy nuts. Many of these people are dear to me, and I can’t tell you just how crushed I was to see these otherwise normally intelligent people I care about just… lose their damn minds over covid. I think it permanently broke something in me to be surrounded by them and watch them spiral down that rabbit hole. The one I’m around the most is convinced the flu vaccine from just before covid hit turned her injection site magnetic. She actually had me take a magnet and hold it to the spot and when the magnet did not stick to her arm, just kept saying I wasn’t getting the right spot. Didn’t matter where I put it. Didn’t stick, but it was because I was doing something wrong. Not because it’s fucking ludicrous to claim a shot magnetizes you.

I am so goddamn bitter now.