American service members will no longer be required to get a yearly flu shot under a new Defense Department policy described by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as an effort to “restore freedom and strength to our joint force.”
Calling the Covid-19 vaccine mandate part of an “era of betrayal” that was now “over,” Hegseth said the Pentagon was discarding “absurd, overreaching mandates that only weaken our war fighting capabilities,” such as “the universal flu vaccine and the mandate behind it.”
What stage of imperial decline is this?
lmao, people are gonna die in boot camp. It’s already basically a biowarfare petri dish (a hundred gross teenagers and early 20-somethings from across the country all sleeping, eating, and bathing in the same room). Adding optional vaccines is going to kill people lmao
💯 ^ I got really bad pneumonia in boot. Coughed so hard I threw up. Powered through it for 2 month like the fucking idiot teen I was and it eventually lifted. But have to say, I think the vaccines they give us in boot are the reason I don’t get sick as much as most people do to this day.
It is a truly miserable disease. I understand why it had up to a 40% fatality rate before antibiotics–anyone with a comorbidity up to and including JUST BEING A LITTLE OLD would be absolutely flattened by that kind of coughing and fever.
Do you get extra secret vaccines or something?
I dunno, haven’t bothered to look at my med records. But they give you a massive shot in your ass cheek and make you sit and rock back and forth on the floor for a while because it feels like a golf ball sized lump. They call it the peanut butter shot. I did get anthrax and smallpox shots tho. Anthrax shots are incredibly painful.
See, in the chair force, they don’t make you rock back and forth on the floor after the 1,000mg penicillin shot; you just go fold your underwear into perfect 4x4 inch squares while sitting at attention in a Unicor knockoff version of an Office Depot task chair
Honestly jealous on the anthrax vax
See if you can special order it.
IIRC my mom’s ex-husband got the typical vaccines (flu, yellow fever, etc.) in the military. Then there was shit labeled like “vaccine A1004, vaccine A1005, vaccine B312,” and so on. They just jab you with a giant-ass syringe that’s a cocktail of stuff and they don’t tell you what all of it is.