Nurses slammed for filming a TikTok video showing them dancing while carrying a COVID-19 BODY BAG
Nurses are slammed for filming a TikTok video showing them dancing while carrying a COVID-19 BODY BAG
- Dancing nurses carrying what appears to be a bagged corpse labelled COVID-19 are featured in a new TikTok video
- The footage was deemed by many online as being in poor taste for making fun of the coronavirus outbreak
- The nurses are not identified and there is no indication that the body they are carrying is real
- Some comments have been positive, suggesting the dead patient in the footage is the coronavirus and that the nurses had beat the disease
- The footage also appears similar to a dancing Ghanian pallbearers meme, inspired by a real company in Ghana that carries coffins while dancing
- The meme is being used as a tongue-and-cheek reminder for people to stay home during the outbreak
- So far, there have been 1,097,209 confirmed cases in he US of the coronavirus, which has been blamed for 63,836 deaths
- Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19
By Ralph R. Ortega For Dailymail.com
Published: 02:27 EDT, 1 May 2020 | Updated: 05:13 EDT, 1 May 2020
Dancing nurses carrying what appears to be a bagged corpse labelled COVID-19 are featured in a new TikTok video which has been slammed online for being in poor taste.
The four nurses are not identified and there is no indication that the ‘body’ they are carrying is real.
However, the video has drawn harsh criticism, as well as some support for the nurses by some suggesting the patient in the footage is supposed to represent the coronavirus and that the frontline healthcare workers had beat the disease.
The footage is believed to have been filmed at a hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Dancing nurses carrying what appears to be a bagged corpse labelled COVID-19 (pictured) are featured in a new TikTok video which has been slammed online for being in poor taste
The four nurses are not identified and there is no indication of where they are or that the body they are carrying is real. The nurses in the video turn in what appears to be a hospital corridor
The video has drawn harsh criticism, as well as some support for the nurses by some suggesting the dead patient in the footage is the coronavirus and that the frontline healthcare workers had beat the disease. The nurses are pictured finishing their dance down a hallway
The footage also appears similar to a dancing Ghanian pallbearers meme, being used as a morbid, but tongue-and-cheek reminder for people to stay home during the outbreak.
So far, there have been 1,097,209 confirmed cases in he US of the coronavirus, which has been blamed for 63,836 deaths.
Among the critics who said they couldn’t ‘stomach’ the footage was YouTuber Blaire White.
‘The dancing was one thing. I stomached it and told myself they need to blow off steam. This??? This is gross,’ said White, who goes by the handle @MsBlaireWhite and has 307,000 followers.
Twitter user Brian Holan tweeted that he had served in the military, and could appreciate ‘gallows humor, when it comes to working in difficult conditions.’
‘However, they have to realize that the average person sees it differently. If you are going to do this kind of humor fine, just keep it to yourselves,’ wrote Holan, who goes by the handle @brian_holan.
A Twitter user known as NJP called the video ‘tasteless’.
‘A little down time is a chat or a laugh with your colleagues on your breaks, not choreographing juvenile dances when people are dying in the same building. It’s tasteless,’ wrote the Twitter user who goes by the handle @fish_nicola.
Among the critics who said they couldn’t ‘stomach’ the footage was YouTuber Blaire White
Twitter user Brian Holan tweeted that he had served in the military, and could appreciate ‘gallows humor, when it comes to working in difficult conditions.’
Twitter user Lion Cub, who has worked in emergency rooms, agreed with the criticisms.
‘I agree with you 1000%. I’ve worked in ERs, inner city hospitals, and on crises teams. I know the value of gallows humor as self-preservation…but they shouldn’t have put it out there on social media,’ the Twitter user who goes by the handle @elf212 wrote.
Another Twitter user, Jeff Runyon, expressed his disapproval with a picture of a man holding a sign that says, ‘Arrest TikTok nurses’.
A Twitter user known as NJP called the video ‘tasteless’.
Twitter user Lion Cub, who has worked in emergency rooms, agreed with the criticisms
Runyon, who claims to be ‘former CIA’, made the post going by the handle @jrun462.
And a Mister E. Nigma tweets, ‘These nurses need to be fired!’
One of the few positive comments comes from twitter user momcakes.
‘Nurses get and need down time and a little fun to blow of steam. You cant be hard at work and serious at all times. It’s not good for the body or mind,’ the Twitter user wrote, going by the handle @DebbielubBrown.
A Mister E. Nigma tweets the nurses should be terminated from their jobs
One of the few positive comments comes from twitter user momcakes, who says nurses ‘need down time and a little fun to blow off steam’
A Twitter user calling himself Roman ‘Car On A Virus’ Yoder wrote that he believed the nurses were celebrating victory over the virus.
‘They are carrying Covid19’s dead body… because they just beat it. To the sound of the funeral meme that has been going around,’ wrote the Twitter user who goes by the handle @_alex_joshua.
‘I think people are overinterpretting this tiktok. It isn’t nurses carry a body of a person who died of Covid-19.’
