Sick. Can't wait to see stories of the troops being incapacitated by it
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Future high tech drone missiles will contain a little Chinese man to sneeze on troops.
An aerosol could do that, theoretically
Stop pointing out the stupidity! They won't be able to start wars if the entire army has Measels.
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.
We have to assume that it is focus group tested. So they are likely doing it because they believe it will win votes.
Is IQ of Americans really dropped that low
it was never that high.
The right realized that if they "yes and" the crazies their base and the crazies adopt each other's beliefs pretty easily so long as it's sold adversarially and with anti elitist tone. So yeah now a significant chunk of Americans are feels over reals about shit like medicine
One thing I think is going on is an unstated fascist eugenics project, where instead of helping people live they try to set up conditions where many will die. The white supremacists in charge believe that they can filter out the weak and inferior through disease, starvation, and other adverse conditions, leaving behind only the glorious genetically superior white Übermenschen like, er, Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller and RFK Jr. There is Nazi thinking behind much of what they do.
Doing this to your own armies in the middle of a war seems clearly stupid, but then so do white supremacist eugenics and starting a war with Iran.
I must say that this looks like some conspiracy theory, but at the same time it looks like very plausible scenarios. I hate it when you can’t tell if someone is cheating on you or not.
From what people say in red counties, I completely believe this theory. Culture supercedes logic and there are very few that can think critically and be socially included in those places. Silent ridicule for getting a vaccine is not uncommon because it's seen as weak or letting the government do what it wants to you.
It's just very ironic and sad.
I agree that, stated outright, it can sound paranoid and conspiratorial. But think of it as a mindset: "if the poors die that's because they deserve it, for not being as smart/tough/clever/strong as us", along with background assumptions about white racial superiority and needing to counter a "great replacement" of whites. Looked at that way, as implicit at least in their outlook if not consciously held, it doesn't seem so implausible that this is influencing their policy decisions.
Remember: look at the average person, and realize that half of the population is even dumber.
I have to imagine flu would spread like wildfire under the close quarters conditions soldiers, sailors, and marines have to have under many circumstances.
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.
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.
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.
With full healthy meals im sure they will have the immune system required.
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.
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
Don't eat or drink anything RFK Jr serves you
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.
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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.
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Wellllll lol
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So we can call this the "Hegseth Flu", right?
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,
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.
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Disease has never done any damage to any armies, right?
Stupidity kills more people than bombs.
In the 70s, a paper appeared that linked DDT to reduced bird populations, triggering the US Nixon government to ban DDT. The data was 100% faked by Rachel Carson.
As a result of banning DDT, and estimated 100 million people died worldwide until DDT was brought back in 2000. Carson was given all kinds of awards, accolades and a bronze statue at Wood's Hole. To this day, people supported her "science".
Shit governments listening to shit fake scientists have killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined.
The whole point of vaccinated army is to be the last level of support in the next flu pandemic.
I guess he hates George Washington
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