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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?

    • 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.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      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.