Another Social Media Post With Alleged Saline Spray Raises Eyebrows
What is it with nurses? It’s a question that keeps resurfacing because the pattern has become impossible to ignore. In just the last week alone, the public has been treated to a parade of health care professionals who seem determined to torch their own careers in the most public, unhinged way possible.
These are not rumors or anonymous screenshots. These are licensed nurses, often proudly displaying badges and credentials, recording themselves and broadcasting rhetoric that would have been unthinkable in a profession built on trust, neutrality, and care.
Consider the sheer volume. One registered nurse publicly wished traumatic childbirth injuries on White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Another took to TikTok to encourage activists to inject ICE agents with a drug that would induce paralysis and then spray them with poison.
Yet another declared he would refuse anesthesia to anyone associated with MAGA, insisting this was his “ethical oath,” as though medical ethics had been rewritten on social media. And then there was the nurse who appeared to suggest letting wounded ICE agents bleed out, while arguing hospitals should fire all MAGA employees because they are “racists.”
This is not political disagreement. This is not spirited debate. This is open hostility paired with an alarming lack of self-awareness, coming from people entrusted with human lives.
These are individuals who, until very recently, were responsible for patients at their most vulnerable. Now many of them are unemployed, disciplined, or facing the loss of their licenses, learning the hard way that TikTok activism is not protected from professional consequences.
Our own Just Mindy recently explored the broader trend among teachers and nurses, and it fits here uncomfortably well. The same impulse is visible across both professions: an apparent need to perform ideological loyalty online, no matter how extreme, incoherent, or self-destructive.
One teacher recently declared, without irony, “Teaching is political bc I can’t teach if ICE shots me in the face,” a sentence that manages to be grammatically broken and logically vacant at the same time.
The question practically asks itself: how do these people function in normal society, let alone in health care or classrooms? And why is there such a compulsion to film what amounts to a public psychotic break and upload it for validation? The answer may be as simple as this: social media has collapsed the boundary between private grievance and professional responsibility, and some people are incapable of maintaining that line.