The defense secretary described the vaccine requirement, which he lifted in April, as an “absurd, overreaching” mandate.
A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.
The outbreak at the base in San Antonio raced through an Air Force Basic Military Training wing, where new recruits sleep on bunk beds in open bays and share meals at large communal tables.
A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release. It was not immediately clear whether the death of the trainee, Keon McDaniel, was related to the flu outbreak.
Party like it’s 1918.
“Spanish flu” — the reason it’s “Spanish” is that Spain was neutral in WWI and wasn’t censoring its press like the combatants.
The flu was everywhere.
Yeah. The “Spanish” flu is actually a product of Kansas.
the virus itself, how it came to be is still a mystery. they suspected it was a recombination event between different strains of h1n1.
How surreal would it be if the farm run by a Kennedy?
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And yet it originated in kansas!
Good! The LAST Thing we want is For our TROOPS to be READY and PREPARED to Defend the Homeland!
-Republicans who SUPPORT the Troops!
This but unironically.
performatively, to be exact.
Yeah, basic training is easily the most contagion spreadable places on earth other than freshman dorms. You’ve got people from all over the country and stuff them nut to butt 24/7 and people are gonna get sick. Hell, I got pneumonia in basic training. It’s insane to me that a vaccine against one of our most common sicknesses would be optional.
It’s insane to me that a vaccine against one of our most common sicknesses would be optional.
Well if it’s left up to pussies like Hegseth who love to do performative “masculine” bullshit, this is what happens.
he should leave off the smallpox and covid vaccine, TDAP, and chickenpox vaccine at this point. all these are quite severe in adults for unvaccinated.
Far more than freshman dorms. The people are from further and more varied places, there’s more of them in a room, and they’re under constant stress and aren’t getting enough sleep.
They’re also not fucking tho.
Suuuuure
There wasn’t any. You’re too busy/tired to even think about it.
Hegseth drinks his own piss
The Bear Grills special is too top shelf for kegsbreath.
He wishes it was Bear Grylls’ piss.
Self inflicted or spiked?
which has alcohol in it.
My friend who served in Iraq I: “I leased my body to them, they gave me a card afterward telling me what they’d injected me with.” He died of gulf war syndrome, which the government ALSO gave him. Makes you stop and think… if today’s military are such pussies that flu vaccines make them get this soft, what happens when they realize what actual service is like?
This is why you don’t put a fox news host in charge of the military
Ok, you say that now but no one could’ve seen that having a talking head as the Secretary of War Crimes was a bad thing to do!!! No. One.
It’s never been tried before. It could’ve worked out tremendously!!!It’s just like having an egotistical narcissistic pathological liar and failed reality TV star as a president. No one could’ve known it was a bad idea to do that…twice. (FUCKING TWICE???)
Hey, maybe the first term of incompetence and blatant corruption was just a blip, and the second term would go much more super tremendouslier than the first.Other than Ronald Reagan then It’s not as if the american people had any knowledge that voting in famous idiots was a bad thing!!
(/s. Just in case)
Who could’ve predicted this???
Literally anyone.
100+years of flu pandemic history.
Can we allow Donald Trump also the freedom to “choose” which meds and jabs he wants to have? I’m sure he knows best for his own health.
If only there was some sort of safe, easy, trustable way to have avoided this. Alas…
Prayer?
Sure, if you want to half ass it by leaving out the hopes.
To hell with that. I’m taking Ivermectin. It cures everything!
I support anyone who thinks this is the proper course of action. Just remember that more is more when it comes to the ‘mectin. A.B.D.M.I, as my ‘Nan used to say, always be dosing more ivermectin. Kept her alive and kickin’ all the way through to her mid 30’s.
Ah, yes, deliberately allowing oneself becoming crippled is the mark of a true “warrior”. 🙄
Natural immunity advocates forget that you need to become ill to obtain it.
I would like to see his face and know his thoughts when he received the report that the readiness of an entire base was impacted this much by his changes.
Why would he care? Why would he even read that report? Why would he even read?
“Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make”
No surprise that the new recruits are the anti-vax morons. I’m so happy for this for them.
You have to be an especially committed anti-vaccine to risk the security of your own nation over a political stunt that MAGA will barely notice.
Who could have foreseen this totally foreseeable outcome?!
They should make alcohol legal on base as well because sobriety is woke.
