You know, there is a lot of weirdness on social media, whether it be on X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or what have you.
As a writer, it’s good to gauge some of the things you see on there from a cultural or political standpoint from time to time to be able to document if a trend is emerging.
Oftentimes, the more troubling things you see on these platforms are simply one-offs. But there are other times when you see certain types of worrisome patterns forming that are worth documenting, and that is where we find ourselves today on the subject of extremist “woke” medical professionals.
Urban Dictionary, Jan. 30: Larp’s definition of woke suggests it is an “umbrella term for individuals who are engrossed by social justice and (who think) of themselves as saviors with a moral high ground, but remain willfully ignorant to the irrationality of their claims and the problems they create.”
In other words, it describes many modern leftists, especially those who have an obsession with things like gender identity politics, who believe America is a racist country and think the so-called “patriarchy” is responsible for all the problems our society faces.
They also have a hyperfocus on allowing unfettered illegal immigration and oppose all attempts from the Trump administration to arrest those with criminal backgrounds and deport them.
One VCU Health nurse’s obsession with this issue has found her out of a job after videos she posted to TikTok urging others in her field to do things that could medically harm or otherwise incapacitate immigration enforcement officers went viral and sparked backlash.
Malinda Cook, CRNA at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, referred to her suggestions as acceptable “sabotage tactics” against ICE and border patrol agents. Among the tactics was to “grab some syringes with needles on the end. Have them full of saline or succinylcholine, you know, whatever. That will probably be a deterrent. Be safe.”
As Colorado’s Dr. Kelly Victory explained, however, this could actually kill someone.
“Injecting someone with succinylcholine — a ‘temporary paralysis drug,’ would be attempted murder,” Victory wrote on X. “This is a paralytic drug that prevents an individual from breathing. Unless artificial respiration is provided, that individual will die.”
Two Florida nurses are also in hot water over recent social media postings. One of them, anesthesiologist Erik Martindale, is no longer a registered nurse in Florida after he was put on blast over something he allegedly posted on Facebook indicating he would not give anesthesia to any “MAGA” patient ahead of surgery. He called it his “ethical oath.”
Another Florida nurse, Boca Raton labor and delivery registered nurse Lexie Lawler, sickeningly expressed a desire for Trump White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to have serious, debilitating health complications after her baby was born.
According to CBS 12, in one video, Lawler stated that “it ‘gives (her) great joy’ to wish Leavitt — who is currently expecting a child — a fourth-degree tear, the most severe obstetric injury.”
Per the state’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, Lawler “is no longer allowed to practice medicine in Florida.”
These are by far not the only instances, but I’ve seen enough to be seriously concerned because somewhere along the way, extreme wokeness has replaced “do no harm” in the minds of some of these people.
It almost seems inconceivable that a medical professional would think or behave in this way, but unfortunately, these are the times we’re living in, where right is wrong, wrong is right, and a growing number of people are too confused or blinded by ideology to understand the difference anymore.
North Carolina native Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah and is a media analyst and regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection.
