Doctor Is Going Viral For Shutting Down Anti-Vaxxers Who Claim Their Opinion Is Just As Valid As His
A doctor who goes by the name of DoctorMorbius on TikTok has had enough of anti-vaxxers. His content on the platform constantly features medical articles, testimonials, and pretty much every bit of information on diseases and ways to fight them that you can only imagine.
DoctorMorbius went viral in June when he made a response to the infamous “not a vaccine hoochie.” That video has received nearly 10 million views. And while it sounds crazy that someone could replicate that figure in a month, one of the doctor’s recent uploads is gaining traction.
While sitting in a car, he shared a rant on the final patient he had that day; an anti-vaxxer who had the audacity to say that their opinions on vaccines carry the same weight as his.
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@doctormorbius38ANGRY! #fypシ #covid19 #vaccine #medical #nurse #doctor #science #usa♬ original sound – DoctorMorbius
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Here’s the transcript of the video
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The TikTok has since gone viral on multiple social media platforms where netizens who’re just as frustrated with anti-science conspiracy theory enthusiasts backed DoctorMorbius’s thoughts on the matter. “This guy is 100% on the money. Shut the f**k up about your Facebook degree in epidemiology,” tweeted Mel en Suisse.
“The whole point of going to school for over a decade [and] then dedicating your life to science is so that your opinion carries actual weight. Stop listening to every Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Just because words come out of their mouths doesn’t mean there’s validity,” urged a Twitter user named Frank Giugliano.
Immediately after, the doctor released a follow-up video to clear the air
@doctormorbius38#stitch with @doctormorbius38 I’m sorry! #fypシ #covid19 #nurse #doctor #usa #uk #australia #vaccine♬ original sound – DoctorMorbius
Two months ago, my colleague Irmante published an in-depth piece on the differences between 9 Covid-19 vaccines.
As there is a ton of data about the new vaccines and it can be confusing for the general public to make sense of it all, Irmante talked to Etienne behind the LaPipette project who created simple and understandable flashcards, comparing the shots.
The jabs rely on different technologies to boost the immune system against the virus responsible for Covid-19 and each manufacturer completed their own clinical trials to estimate the efficacy of their vaccines. The main caveat is that efficacy between vaccines cannot be compared since each clinical trial has its own standard (‘end-point’) to assess COVID-19 cases.
However, even Etienne, a PhD biochemist, pointed out that any health recommendations should come from personal doctors if there are any personal concerns about the vaccines. Let’s hope that more people will come to this conclusion.
And a discussion soon followed
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′′ Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles ′′ F. Dostoyevsky
Read "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. It's where we're heading
Load More Replies...Just today an ex friend of mine wrote some nonsense on her whatsapp status about the greenpass that's about to become effective in Italy (you need to be vaccinated or test negative to go to restaurants and public events), saying it is a scam. This very person joined a MLM to sell aloe vera. That was not a scam, according to her.
Doctor should tell the man that he is going to fill his truck with gas. When he balks and says you can't do that it's diesel say "My opinion is just as valid as yours".
"Oh you're as qualified as I am? We need a heart surgeon in this very moment, go prepare yourself, you will perform the surgery"
Nope, can't say I do. Though I don't think it is to do with BP's censoring as they usually cover, not replace.
Load More Replies...You can have an opinion, but you cannot call it *fact*. You can have fears, but that does not make them facts. And everything else this guy said, times ten. You can question your doctors (please do, I hve an MD and know they can err!) but *listen* to their information. And accept the consequences of YOUR decision. Please.
I used to tell my students: Your opinion in this classroom does not matter. If you like or hate something and you feel it is absolutely beneficial for the rest of the class to know it, you need to explain why, using principles and facts, and without ever using the words like or hate.
I used to debate creationists in high school (debate team). It was fun, but also maddening at times. And pathetic - I honestly don't know how these people manage to get through life.
Load More Replies...From a country with free healthcare (UK) I wish we had a harder stance that allowed these people to lay on the beds they make: If you don't want any particular medical treatment, you sign something that says you can't participate where it would negatively affect others and you pay for any medical consequences. You don't want vaccine? You can't go out until there is zero covid and you pay for any healthcare if you contract it.
No one tells an engineer, “I know as much about bridge building as you do.” No tells an accountant, “I know as much about finances and taxation as you.” But world renowned epidemiologists? Climatologists with decades of experience and peer-reviewed research? Well, I’m just a dog walker, but I can tell you that Covid is just a bad flu and weather changes all the time. I did internet, so I know better!
I have a friend who is a jr high biology teacher who made the comment “Darwin’s theory is gonna be real easy to teach this year”.
There are only three things that are infinite; time, the size of the Universe itself and human stupidity and frankly, I’m not very sure about the first two. The mere existence of morons like anti-vaxxers and flat-Earthers is enough to deter advanced intergalactic civilisations from contacting us. So, all one has to do if one intends to be an ‘expert’ in a certain area is watch pseudoscientific rubbish on YouTube. These self proclaimed experts profess themselves to be more knowledgable than those who hold bloody degrees.
Opinions are neither valid nor invalid. Arguments are either valid or invalid, and a doctor’s argument isn’ t valid just because he’s a doctor - he still has to make a good argument (he has to demonstrate knowledge, not rely on his authority). Basic rules of logic.
What also gets me is that these fools can only comprehend something when it happens to them, but then when it DOES happen to them, they think everyone else will listen to them. They watch 100 "I didn't listen and now I'm sick with covid; please get vaxxed" videos and are unmoved, they don't get vaxxed, and then THEY get sick with covid and genuinely think that THEIR "I didn't listen and now I'm sick with covid; please get vaxxed" video is going to break through to everyone else. It's ASTONISHINGLY un-self-aware. We need to work on self-awareness and empathy at LEAST as much as we need to help people understand that opinions and actual expertise are two vastly different things.
I honestly agree with this guy. Idiots are given too much credit in this country without any merit or experience to back it up. This includes Transphobes, Antivaxxers, homophobes, and racists.
Best fix ever for anti-vaxxer is that the (insert hated foreign country here) started the rumor to weaken America. Trouble is you can’t reason with stupid. Conversely patients also can’t reason with arrogant medical professionals who are over-worked and refuse to listen. I have met my share of arrogant doctors who engage in gaslighting, minimizing or just referring a patient elsewhere because they don’t want to do the work needed or have poor communication skills. It isn’t always the patient that’s the problem
China. It works the best. Anti-vaxxers will believe anything about a vaccine- unless it's facts, of course.
Load More Replies...Lot's of people are saying visit hospitals, see for yourself. Lot's of hospital staff, including doctors and nurses refusing to vaccinate, by the logic here, their opinion is outranks every vaccine advocate here that isn't a medical professional. I believe in the vaccine, but people are engaging in massive logical fallacy here.
TV-news debates also help to distort the issue. They will have one person representing each side. This make the viewer belive its af 50/50 debate and one point of view is as good as the other. If it should show the real picture, its would be 10.000 debating one person, when it comes the climate change, vaccination etc. Such debates should be introduced with a disclaimer. However the misinformation on the web (including SoMe), is litteraly ripping our countrys apart. Hiding under free speech, they are bringing down the exact values that gave them that opportunity.
"But our EQUALITY....!" Ugh, no nothings thinking smart people are dumb, evil, out to "get" them...
As a healthcare provider, the ones that absolutely make me want to take off my stethoscope, white cost, and run for the hills are naysayers who run to the ER as soon as they are in dire straights. We of course patch them up, but we’re not compassionate caregivers any more. We are all bitter ptsd bi+che$ who secretly hate our patients.
Seems everyone I know who is anti-vax has “a friend who is a nurse, and she’s says it’s all bunk”. I’ve gotten this from 4 different people so far. (Posting from US)
I look at the facts from the companies producing the vaccine, the facts from being in a hospital and seeing empty wards and corridors with medical staff at around, and the facts from the data that hasn't been through the media filter yet. Death figures should not be "covid positive", they should be based on that being the primary cause of death. Where have the yearly flu deaths gone? What is the point of lockdowns when so many people are "essential workers" so are exempt, and even those who aren't are still shopping and mixing with everyone else?
Load More Replies...Sometimes I think only a nuke could interrupt my country's frantic circling of the drain, but killing the internet completely and denying these idiots their global voice would also be a good start and wouldn't make as much of a mess. The crackpot down the block would still spew his agnorant rhetoric, but there'd be nobody there to hear him.
I got both shots of the vaccine, I took enough of a chance the previous year without it and since they made it available I went for it.
Usually i am pro vaccines.I stepped onto a rusty nail and rushed to my doctor to get a shot (and two more after some time) but i won't get this vaccines for Corona.I don't need to be a qualified person to see the side effects of the people around me.I am not saying i won't get the vaccine at all but i don't want to get the vaccines that are on the market right now.I will wait for better and more effective vaccines with less side effects.
I love hearing conservative Christians talk about how they're not going to let something invisible control their lives. If the stupid idiots don't get the vaccines then something invisible is going to kill them. The trouble is you can see this and all diseases, do these anti-vaxers go to doctors if so why? Why are they wasting the doctors time if they aren't going to respect his knowledge. If you would like I used to go to a doctor who would not wear a mask and this asshole got COVID and complained to me I thanked him for exposing me to a deadly pathogen and I left never to return. I don't suppose he will lower himself to be vaccinated. So all you anti vaxers call me I' give you his name and number!
There are two popular Christian conservatives on their deathbeds right now here in the US begging for the vaccine. It's too late. One died the other is intubated and will never wake up as of today. Their church they go to is still denying the vaccine bc of politics even though they won't admit it.
Load More Replies...To be fair, I know several doctors who believe HCQ is a valid treatment for COVID and don't trust the vaccine. So, just having a MD diploma is sadly not a 100% guarantee.
Being "a doctor" does not make your a specialist in virology, most doctors have very little knowledge outside their specialist field, if they did then there wouldn't need to be specialists.
Load More Replies...What's ironic is you'll see nearly the exact same insults and slurs about this side of the fence on opposing view sites. We've been divided nicely, I guess next comes the conquering. Or maybe we're already doing *that* to ourselves as well.
Stop using the stupid "anti-vaxxers" label bc that is NOT true!! The white house has a full-time employee that comes up with these dumb labels. Just like antifa, they are the biggest fascists, ever!!
Dismissal without investigation is prejudice based on personal incredulity, not true discernment...
So just tell him that sense he is so knowledgeable about the subject, why not just heal yourself, you'll save money.
Two non-vaxxers had lung transplants... Seriously?? What a waste! Those lungs could have gone to someone who REALLY needed them. But they spew their bulls*it then run crying when the s*it hits the fan. What would make matters worse is when they got the transplants, they'd still use that air to spew more bulls*it!!
And here we go with the "lesson" of the day. I'm so tired of this.
I feel for the doctor because of the issue medicine and science over opinion. Science is used to practice medicine. Opinion is … unfortunately in America considered a right.
Considered being the operative word there. I don't remember getting the memo that said I have a "right" to an opinion.
Load More Replies...Sorry, but my opinion about what I put in my body will *always* be more important than anyone else's. I will take professional opinions into consideration, but I will not mindlessly defer to them. That's a neglect of my responsibility for myself. I will always make up my own mind, & I expect that to be respected *even if my final decision disagrees with a professional's advice.*
What does this have to do w anti vaxxers that are going to cause another lockdown all winter bc they think they know more than people that are educated
Load More Replies...Every vaccine has A very low risk! The alternative to not getting vaccinated is a very high death rate ffs get vaccinated
Load More Replies...Omg you are not a doctor. Every single vaccine on the face of the earth has side effects. Covid one is no different. All vaccines are made in a very short amount of time including the yearly flu vaccine which is just a very educated guess every year. You are still spreading misinformation! This is so insane
Load More Replies...If someone can't have a vaccine because of a health condition, of course they are not a bitch/moron/whatever. It is not their fault, they are not making a choice. All the more reason the rest of us should have the vaccine as it helps protect them ultimately too. Not brainwashing. Nothing to do with politics.. Nothing to do with fanaticism, which seems to be more on the side of the antis quite frankly.
Load More Replies...Stop spreading lies you read on Reddit and 4chan you weirdo
Load More Replies...I'd say your relative is a piss poor doctor. And as for it being your decision, if that decision affected only you, I quite honestly wouldn't give a f**k, but it doesn't affect just you. C-19 can take up to 14 days to show symptoms, and during that time, you can potentially infect any or every unvaccinated person you come in contact with. Not that it would matter to you. Your comments make it plain that you care about no one but yourself.
Load More Replies...Omg this has never ever been proven. There is extensive evidence it's due to pollution. You are going to be at a loss to ever back up what you're saying bc it's not true!
Load More Replies...′′ Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles ′′ F. Dostoyevsky
Read "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. It's where we're heading
Load More Replies...Just today an ex friend of mine wrote some nonsense on her whatsapp status about the greenpass that's about to become effective in Italy (you need to be vaccinated or test negative to go to restaurants and public events), saying it is a scam. This very person joined a MLM to sell aloe vera. That was not a scam, according to her.
Doctor should tell the man that he is going to fill his truck with gas. When he balks and says you can't do that it's diesel say "My opinion is just as valid as yours".
"Oh you're as qualified as I am? We need a heart surgeon in this very moment, go prepare yourself, you will perform the surgery"
Nope, can't say I do. Though I don't think it is to do with BP's censoring as they usually cover, not replace.
Load More Replies...You can have an opinion, but you cannot call it *fact*. You can have fears, but that does not make them facts. And everything else this guy said, times ten. You can question your doctors (please do, I hve an MD and know they can err!) but *listen* to their information. And accept the consequences of YOUR decision. Please.
I used to tell my students: Your opinion in this classroom does not matter. If you like or hate something and you feel it is absolutely beneficial for the rest of the class to know it, you need to explain why, using principles and facts, and without ever using the words like or hate.
I used to debate creationists in high school (debate team). It was fun, but also maddening at times. And pathetic - I honestly don't know how these people manage to get through life.
Load More Replies...From a country with free healthcare (UK) I wish we had a harder stance that allowed these people to lay on the beds they make: If you don't want any particular medical treatment, you sign something that says you can't participate where it would negatively affect others and you pay for any medical consequences. You don't want vaccine? You can't go out until there is zero covid and you pay for any healthcare if you contract it.
No one tells an engineer, “I know as much about bridge building as you do.” No tells an accountant, “I know as much about finances and taxation as you.” But world renowned epidemiologists? Climatologists with decades of experience and peer-reviewed research? Well, I’m just a dog walker, but I can tell you that Covid is just a bad flu and weather changes all the time. I did internet, so I know better!
I have a friend who is a jr high biology teacher who made the comment “Darwin’s theory is gonna be real easy to teach this year”.
There are only three things that are infinite; time, the size of the Universe itself and human stupidity and frankly, I’m not very sure about the first two. The mere existence of morons like anti-vaxxers and flat-Earthers is enough to deter advanced intergalactic civilisations from contacting us. So, all one has to do if one intends to be an ‘expert’ in a certain area is watch pseudoscientific rubbish on YouTube. These self proclaimed experts profess themselves to be more knowledgable than those who hold bloody degrees.
Opinions are neither valid nor invalid. Arguments are either valid or invalid, and a doctor’s argument isn’ t valid just because he’s a doctor - he still has to make a good argument (he has to demonstrate knowledge, not rely on his authority). Basic rules of logic.
What also gets me is that these fools can only comprehend something when it happens to them, but then when it DOES happen to them, they think everyone else will listen to them. They watch 100 "I didn't listen and now I'm sick with covid; please get vaxxed" videos and are unmoved, they don't get vaxxed, and then THEY get sick with covid and genuinely think that THEIR "I didn't listen and now I'm sick with covid; please get vaxxed" video is going to break through to everyone else. It's ASTONISHINGLY un-self-aware. We need to work on self-awareness and empathy at LEAST as much as we need to help people understand that opinions and actual expertise are two vastly different things.
I honestly agree with this guy. Idiots are given too much credit in this country without any merit or experience to back it up. This includes Transphobes, Antivaxxers, homophobes, and racists.
Best fix ever for anti-vaxxer is that the (insert hated foreign country here) started the rumor to weaken America. Trouble is you can’t reason with stupid. Conversely patients also can’t reason with arrogant medical professionals who are over-worked and refuse to listen. I have met my share of arrogant doctors who engage in gaslighting, minimizing or just referring a patient elsewhere because they don’t want to do the work needed or have poor communication skills. It isn’t always the patient that’s the problem
China. It works the best. Anti-vaxxers will believe anything about a vaccine- unless it's facts, of course.
Load More Replies...Lot's of people are saying visit hospitals, see for yourself. Lot's of hospital staff, including doctors and nurses refusing to vaccinate, by the logic here, their opinion is outranks every vaccine advocate here that isn't a medical professional. I believe in the vaccine, but people are engaging in massive logical fallacy here.
TV-news debates also help to distort the issue. They will have one person representing each side. This make the viewer belive its af 50/50 debate and one point of view is as good as the other. If it should show the real picture, its would be 10.000 debating one person, when it comes the climate change, vaccination etc. Such debates should be introduced with a disclaimer. However the misinformation on the web (including SoMe), is litteraly ripping our countrys apart. Hiding under free speech, they are bringing down the exact values that gave them that opportunity.
"But our EQUALITY....!" Ugh, no nothings thinking smart people are dumb, evil, out to "get" them...
As a healthcare provider, the ones that absolutely make me want to take off my stethoscope, white cost, and run for the hills are naysayers who run to the ER as soon as they are in dire straights. We of course patch them up, but we’re not compassionate caregivers any more. We are all bitter ptsd bi+che$ who secretly hate our patients.
Seems everyone I know who is anti-vax has “a friend who is a nurse, and she’s says it’s all bunk”. I’ve gotten this from 4 different people so far. (Posting from US)
I look at the facts from the companies producing the vaccine, the facts from being in a hospital and seeing empty wards and corridors with medical staff at around, and the facts from the data that hasn't been through the media filter yet. Death figures should not be "covid positive", they should be based on that being the primary cause of death. Where have the yearly flu deaths gone? What is the point of lockdowns when so many people are "essential workers" so are exempt, and even those who aren't are still shopping and mixing with everyone else?
Load More Replies...Sometimes I think only a nuke could interrupt my country's frantic circling of the drain, but killing the internet completely and denying these idiots their global voice would also be a good start and wouldn't make as much of a mess. The crackpot down the block would still spew his agnorant rhetoric, but there'd be nobody there to hear him.
I got both shots of the vaccine, I took enough of a chance the previous year without it and since they made it available I went for it.
Usually i am pro vaccines.I stepped onto a rusty nail and rushed to my doctor to get a shot (and two more after some time) but i won't get this vaccines for Corona.I don't need to be a qualified person to see the side effects of the people around me.I am not saying i won't get the vaccine at all but i don't want to get the vaccines that are on the market right now.I will wait for better and more effective vaccines with less side effects.
I love hearing conservative Christians talk about how they're not going to let something invisible control their lives. If the stupid idiots don't get the vaccines then something invisible is going to kill them. The trouble is you can see this and all diseases, do these anti-vaxers go to doctors if so why? Why are they wasting the doctors time if they aren't going to respect his knowledge. If you would like I used to go to a doctor who would not wear a mask and this asshole got COVID and complained to me I thanked him for exposing me to a deadly pathogen and I left never to return. I don't suppose he will lower himself to be vaccinated. So all you anti vaxers call me I' give you his name and number!
There are two popular Christian conservatives on their deathbeds right now here in the US begging for the vaccine. It's too late. One died the other is intubated and will never wake up as of today. Their church they go to is still denying the vaccine bc of politics even though they won't admit it.
Load More Replies...To be fair, I know several doctors who believe HCQ is a valid treatment for COVID and don't trust the vaccine. So, just having a MD diploma is sadly not a 100% guarantee.
Being "a doctor" does not make your a specialist in virology, most doctors have very little knowledge outside their specialist field, if they did then there wouldn't need to be specialists.
Load More Replies...What's ironic is you'll see nearly the exact same insults and slurs about this side of the fence on opposing view sites. We've been divided nicely, I guess next comes the conquering. Or maybe we're already doing *that* to ourselves as well.
Stop using the stupid "anti-vaxxers" label bc that is NOT true!! The white house has a full-time employee that comes up with these dumb labels. Just like antifa, they are the biggest fascists, ever!!
Dismissal without investigation is prejudice based on personal incredulity, not true discernment...
So just tell him that sense he is so knowledgeable about the subject, why not just heal yourself, you'll save money.
Two non-vaxxers had lung transplants... Seriously?? What a waste! Those lungs could have gone to someone who REALLY needed them. But they spew their bulls*it then run crying when the s*it hits the fan. What would make matters worse is when they got the transplants, they'd still use that air to spew more bulls*it!!
And here we go with the "lesson" of the day. I'm so tired of this.
I feel for the doctor because of the issue medicine and science over opinion. Science is used to practice medicine. Opinion is … unfortunately in America considered a right.
Considered being the operative word there. I don't remember getting the memo that said I have a "right" to an opinion.
Load More Replies...Sorry, but my opinion about what I put in my body will *always* be more important than anyone else's. I will take professional opinions into consideration, but I will not mindlessly defer to them. That's a neglect of my responsibility for myself. I will always make up my own mind, & I expect that to be respected *even if my final decision disagrees with a professional's advice.*
What does this have to do w anti vaxxers that are going to cause another lockdown all winter bc they think they know more than people that are educated
Load More Replies...Every vaccine has A very low risk! The alternative to not getting vaccinated is a very high death rate ffs get vaccinated
Load More Replies...Omg you are not a doctor. Every single vaccine on the face of the earth has side effects. Covid one is no different. All vaccines are made in a very short amount of time including the yearly flu vaccine which is just a very educated guess every year. You are still spreading misinformation! This is so insane
Load More Replies...If someone can't have a vaccine because of a health condition, of course they are not a bitch/moron/whatever. It is not their fault, they are not making a choice. All the more reason the rest of us should have the vaccine as it helps protect them ultimately too. Not brainwashing. Nothing to do with politics.. Nothing to do with fanaticism, which seems to be more on the side of the antis quite frankly.
Load More Replies...Stop spreading lies you read on Reddit and 4chan you weirdo
Load More Replies...I'd say your relative is a piss poor doctor. And as for it being your decision, if that decision affected only you, I quite honestly wouldn't give a f**k, but it doesn't affect just you. C-19 can take up to 14 days to show symptoms, and during that time, you can potentially infect any or every unvaccinated person you come in contact with. Not that it would matter to you. Your comments make it plain that you care about no one but yourself.
Load More Replies...Omg this has never ever been proven. There is extensive evidence it's due to pollution. You are going to be at a loss to ever back up what you're saying bc it's not true!
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