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I shit you not; my dental hygienist just confided in me that 5g towers scared her while she was taking my xrays. She thought they had adverse effects on the body. She has an associate's degree. She mentioned they were thinking of dropping thee lead jacket requirement for patients and was shocked when I said yeah I totally agree.
There's a reason why there comparisons out there about x-ray exposure comparing a flight to number of dental xrays. She's better off not getting it multiple times a day, but my annual xrays do no harm to me.
I personally know nurses who I went to school with who are anti-vax.
They are not joking. They are 100% conspiracy-theory loving, in it for the propaganda weak-willed individuals who will buy anything that shows the man is holding them down, and through some simple choices they themselves can make, they have an edge on the world in their own minds.
I told her that I had a HAM radio license and a background in electronics and science and that understanding exposure to ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, there's no serious effects from cell phone towers and that even if there was one in the room with her, the worst that would happen is heat.
Honestly, lockdown convinced me that most nurses don't have enough education.
Your average practice runs with one doctor on the books and a handful of nurses performing all the observations and making decisions by proxy.
Even if they had the education and passed the classes, I worry. Working as a nurse in a regional hospital and being anti-vax isn't a "didn't know any better" kind of problem. These people can be trained to the gills, but if they were brought up anti-vax, they're not going to do shit polio literally shows up on their own personal doorstep.