• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I have to imagine flu would spread like wildfire under the close quarters conditions soldiers, sailors, and marines have to have under many circumstances.

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      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.

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    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:

    https://www.military.com/off-duty/2020/02/10/why-most-dreaded-injection-called-peanut-butter-shot.html

    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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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      30 days ago

      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.

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        29 days ago

        that vaccine was guaranteed to make you feel awful.

        Malaria, Yellow and Dengue fever are guaranteed to make you feel awful.

        You’ve known perfectly reasonable idiots.

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          Possibly, but their argument was that the risk of getting the disease was small, but the vaccine was guaranteed. They grew up there, so I would think they know the subject better than me.