Posted on 01/15/2020 11:18:05 PM PST by Morgana
A famous TikTok star with 1.7 million followers and who goes by the name Nurse Holly has been getting inundated with scorn for the past few days on social media for daring to state the most obvious and commonsensical of medical truths: abstinence “best” prevents STDs.
In the recent TikTok video, Nurse Holly employs some flashy captions to relay a rather simple message. “The best way to prevent STDs is waiting for sex until marriage. Just the truth,” she says in the video.
Though the video has since been deleted, people on social media have still been sharing it on other platforms with the intention of inviting ridicule. Here is just one such sampling:
Other nurses, the ones more concerned with being hip rather than being factual, took to Twitter to roast Nurse Holly and even created their own TikTok videos, denouncing her position as antiquated, dangerous, and judgmental while promoting stigma against people with STDs.
“So tired of nurses acting a fool on their large platforms. Promoting irresponsible and biased rhetoric regarding public health in an effort to go viral is so low and so so dangerous. Abstinence teaching does not equate to safe sex. So here’s my response,” tweeted Sarah, RN.
“Healthcare professionals that don’t let judgment guide their practice let me hear y’all make some noise!!!” tweeted nurse Diego as he shared his parody video.
“Did you know that one of the best ways to prevent STIs is to stop stigmatizing them so people feel comfortable talking about them?” Diego says in his video. “While abstinence is a valid way to prevent the spreading of STIs, more comprehensive education about the spectrum of options available is important. Creating a safe space for people to talk about their intimate history, being nonjudgmental, and actually attempting to be helpful is best practice in healthcare. Most importantly: STOP SHAMING PEOPLE AND BE A DECENT HUMAN BEING.”
Medical experience or no medical experience, the trolls hating on Nurse Holly were relentless, with each vitriolic statement outdoing the other in an online outrage contest.
“@StThomas_Health this is one of your nurses and she seems to have missed the lectures on sexually transmitted infections as well as refraining from shaming patients. It is very disturbing that she cares for anyone,” tweeted one user.
“She looks like every girl who was mean in high school but went into nursing because ‘Oh my god I’m just such a caring and compassionate person,'” tweeted another user.
“I went to nursing school with her. She’s actually a practicing RN. I saw these views and beliefs firsthand from her, many of my classmates, and even some of my professors. I completely regret going to a private Christian college for nursing school…very scary,” tweeted another.
Speaking with BuzzFeed News, Nurse Holly, who would not reveal her full name or personal information in fear of reprisal, apologized “for any offense that was taken” and that she “only wish[es] to promote positivity and healthy lifestyles.”
According to a 2010 study out of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Waterloo in Canada, as well as the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, abstinence-only education works even when it does not have a moral component attached. As reported by NPR, the study showed that when 662 middle schoolers were given abstinence-only education, sexual activity dropped significantly:
The researchers developed a curriculum that was designed to get middle schoolers in the 6th and 7th grades to put off having sex until they were more more mature and could handle the consequences.
There were no lectures. It was an interactive program. The young people had discussions about resisting peer pressure, through role playing and games.
Unlike previous programs it did not define abstinence as delaying sex until marriage.
Two years after completing the program, a survey showed that the abstinence training was effective in getting 67% of the kids to delay having sex. That’s compared to 48% of students in another group who only received basic health information.
**video on link***
What is Tik Tok
Not a clue, once again was hoping someone here knew. Must be something like Snapchat or Reddit. You know the latest thing.
I agree with you. So many people who initially state a fundamental truth don’t have the spine to stick by their supposed convictions.
As soon as they state a fundamental truth and are then attacked for stating it they immediately retreat. Thereby, rendering their initial truthful statement moot.
A recent example of this was a republican name of Collins. He truthfully stated that the dems are taking the side of the murderous Iranian general and the mullahs in Iran. Then two days later, after being attacked for stating the obvious he apologized for stating the obvious.
It is so very obvious we have but ONE man with a spine and the courage of his convictions in DC.
Only one man who doesn’t back down to the PC onslaught. That man is President Trump. No one else is trustworthy. No one else has the spine to state the truth and then in the face of the 24/7/365 onslaught spit in their face and stick by their convictions.
Yeah, she pulled a Chick-fil-A.
OK leftists out there, tell us all where she’s wrong.
Advocating people not to have sex doesn’t mean they don’t KNOW HOW to have sex.
Its a strawman argument considering every kid in public school gets sex ed regardless if parents want them to or not. Or just about every tv channel across multiple shows, either discussing it or showing it.
By their logic if I know how to use a gun is it stupid for me not to go around shooting as many people as I can? If I know how to do something that can lead to permanent negative consequences for me and others, I’m somehow stupid for not doing it. That’s what they think about sex.
It’s not a casual thing. It ruins peoples lives multiple ways if you take a casual approach to it.
Here again we see the Leftist practicing Alinsky’s rules for radicals.
They probably don’t even know that they are doing it and would never admit to setting out to hurt this woman
If they recognized that they were doing it after having it pointed out to them they would say that she deserved it for being judgmental.
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
Any advocate of Christian morality must be destroyed and Alinsky gave them the battle plan.
Note that she didn’t shame a single person, yet any view the left doesn’t agree with, they just declare to be shaming.
And so what if she would have shamed people. People ought to be shamed for things.
The left shames people it can’t handle disagreeing with them. Fuk the Alinsky snowflakes.
At least now everyone knows it’s a waste of time to date her.
Famous TikTok ‘Nurse Holly’ Gets Bullied For Saying Abstinence ‘Best’ Prevents STDs...
It also prevents a lot of fun :)
Your post is hysterical!
Saved some guys wasted $$ on dinner and roses and candy :)
’Intellectual honesty is a crime in any totalitarian country; but even in England it is not exactly profitable to speak and write the truth.’
G. Orwell
Seems there are a lot of people with std’s out there
It seems that the truth burns...
TikTok is a short-form, video-sharing app that allows users to create and share 15-second videos, on any topic.
I had to look it up... Thought I’d share.
Thanks for sharing
Sharing is Caring.
I once somehow installed it, and most of all they send is trash.
Funny....but if she was one to give out often...the dater might be facing a date with the doctor..or the pharmacist for a lifetime of disease or meds....or a date to the maternity ward or a date in court for the paternity suit or visitation rights hearings or a date to the abortionist if he did avail himself of her proclivities.
Life’s tough enough...why make it harder?
So does herpes. The snowflakes don’t shame them. They let them go through a lifetime of misery and meds. How compassionate the snowflakes are.
Works every time it's tried. 100%.
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