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Ban malaria vaccines next!
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Better yet, polio.
yellow fever, and dengue(i dont think both are in the US offered)
To be fair I have known perfectly reasonable people choose the risk of malaria over taking that vaccine. Don't know if they have changed it since I was a kid, but that vaccine was guaranteed to make you feel awful.
I don't know, I traveled with my parents to several African countries as a kid, and we got a bunch of vaccines, and I don't remember having any major reactions.
I really have tried to understand what US government is trying to achieve by all these stupidity but I can’t get it? Is IQ of Americans really dropped that low, or is there something else going on? I hate to open news every morning now, because there’s always something more stupid things coming from the USA.
Remember: look at the average person, and realize that half of the population is even dumber.
This is a man who said (in 2019) that he hasn’t washed his hands for 10 years
I feel we're kinda glossing over this point ...
So:
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dont sit on any cushions at the VP's house.
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dont touch anything at SecDef's
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and do not inhale at what is left of the White House
So we can call this the "Hegseth Flu", right?
I have to imagine flu would spread like wildfire under the close quarters conditions soldiers, sailors, and marines have to have under many circumstances.
TB also spreads quite easily under close quarters, only matter of time since there isnt a vaccine in the usa, and tb is quite naturally resistant to antibiotics. They likely wont even reccomend COVID vaccination too.
With full healthy meals im sure they will have the immune system required.
This approach is how the Spanish flu spread worldwide. US troops took it from Kansas to Europe and then 50 million people died. But I wouldn’t expect Kegbreath to know any history.
It would. Historically, disease has been a huge problem for militaries. That's why they give you like a dozen vaccines on day one.
Can confirm. It feels like it was eleven.
As is tradition. The Spanish flu was the American flu.
Within days of the 4 March case at Camp Funston, 522 men at the camp had reported sick.[107] By 11 March 1918, the virus had reached Queens, New York.[108] Failure to take preventive measures in March/April was later criticized.[109]
As the U.S. had entered World War I, the disease quickly spread from Camp Funston, a major training ground for troops of the American Expeditionary Forces, to other U.S. Army camps and Europe, becoming an epidemic in the Midwest, East Coast, and French ports by April 1918
and theres evidence that spanish one had h5n1 in its ancestry, it was a mixture of 4 different flu viruses which used pigs as a mixing vessel.
Ah, beat me to it. Yeah, the Spanish Flu, one of the most deadly pandemics in human history, was initially spread through US military bases. It's literally one of the reasons why we make sure soldiers are vaccinated.
they were also kept close to domesticated pigs which are the worst things to be in the vicinity when theres flus goes around. since pigs can be infected with multiple flus and act as mixing vessels more easily than humans.
One bout of flu thru there will knock them all on their asses.
Maybe it ain't mandatory, but if any of them were smart they'd get the vax anyway.
and likewise covid will also run rampant too,
This dude is mind bogglingly incompetent
It's not incompetence, it's malice.
It's probaby both.
How would you rank competent malice, incompetent malice, and incompetent benevolence in order of existential danger to society? I imagine the existential danger increases with both incompetence and malice, but maybe somewhere in there there's a combination of incompetent malice that becomes unintentional benevolence.
Both with a hefty serving of religion
It’s both. But millennia of human warfare has taught us that disease can really fuck up an army.
These idiots really do be increasing how often we contemplate the Roman Empire...
...And why we somehow allow leaders that defund history education shortly after they flunked it and went on to win a rigged popularity contest.
It would be if it wasn’t exactly what I have come to expect.
Hegseth’s directive does allow for the military services to request to keep the vaccine requirement in place
And I guarantee they're all going to do it, because they aren't fucking morons.
I mean, they're already fighting for a corrupt fascist pedophile. If they're not morons I guess they're just scumbags.
Wellllll lol
But trump replaced the top brass with sycophants.
Throughout history one of the primary causes of casualties has been disease.
Good job moron.
In boot camp there was always a few people who faked snorting the vaccines...
They always get ridiculously sick, and if a division has a high enough percentage, everyone gets a second "peanut butter shot" as punishment.
Because lying about taking the flu vaccine is breaking an order, and surely no recruit would do that...
So it can't be a virus, and the only solution is treating it as a widespread bacterial infection:
There's more than enough idiots that if flu vaccines aren't mandated, it's going to run Tampa t across every single command. It's too many people jammed too close together.
Never knew it was called that. Had to run our asses off and push earth after that shot and our instructor said they did that on purpose. TIL
Disease has never done any damage to any armies, right?
I guess he hates George Washington
I'm sure Hegseth would agree that God isn't real since you cannot see him with the naked eye.
Then again, his christianity is also just a manipulation.
Staying alive is no longer mandated for the military.
Why would anyone need healthy troops? What would that possibly do to the numbers? /s