US military service members will no longer be required to get annual flu shot

Oh dude, they won’t. They will just say it’s a false negative, keep it internal, and when everyone gets horribly ill, they will blame it on the E-2 “lack of person hygiene standard” and retroactively admin separate half the so they can’t get service connected. Duh.

Found Kash.

“I don’t understand it and I’m rational”

Science contradicts their worldview, and their view is they are right no matter what. So anything which could threaten that idea is a real threat to their psyche.

Expected from someone who probably spent his entire military career drunk and watching 80s action movies.

Without autism the military would lose like a quarter of their tankers.

>People get the flu vaccine, people get autism from the vaccine The last thing we want are soldiers that strictly adhere to rules who thrive on schedules /s

Oh god, norovirus on a navy vessel would suck so much, especially one under supplied with hygiene products

It also probably started... surprise surprise... in the US, on a military base.

Well they can't read so it will be new to them.

George Washington enacted the [first medical mandate](https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/smallpox-inoculation-revolutionary-war.htm#:~:text=George%20Washington%20enacted%20the%20first%20medical%20mandate%20in%20American%20history.) in American history. He understood the grave threat smallpox imposed upon the Continental Army and their chances of winning the war. In a letter to the medical director of the Continental Army, Washington proclaimed: > Finding the smallpox to be spreading much and fearing that no precaution can prevent it from running thro’ the whole of our Army, **I have determined that the Troops shall be inoculated**. This Expedient may be attended with some inconveniences and some disadvantages, but yet I trust, in its consequences will have the most happy effects. Necessity not only authorizes but seems to require the measure, **for should the disorder infect the Army, in the natural way, and rage with its usual Virulence, we should have more to dread from it, than from the sword of the enemy.**

It wasn't exactly super clean.  He's have them mix a little blood from someone who had been infected with their own  Still better than nothing but...eww

Also that they were Christians, and therefore this is a Christian nation. Even though their relationship with the church was... Complicated, to say the least. Yes they were Christian, and yes they went to church, but it wasn't the basis of their identities like modern fundies.

Since everyone else was covering it up to avoid showing weakness to the otherside

Worse, gastro on the Gerald Ford.

I remember when my entire platoon got dysentery in Iraq. At least we were on dry land, in the desert, and could drop trousers to spray out of both ends at the same time whenever we wanted.

How many flu carriers could a carrier carry if a carrier carried flu carriers?

I'm amused at the idea of an captain/admiral being a surfer. I know they're people just like the rest of us with hobbies and interests, but still, to my simpleton mind it's amusing.

Especially when you are beset on all sides by the virulent

There’s a reason Agent Orange suck Putin’s balls.

It is a political decision. Because people decided that common sense and scientific fact was a political topic where their opinions matter just as much (if not more) than reality. *Everything* is politics because it only takes one side, one person, to make anything "political".

That makes sense. I thought leaking!

Everytime I hear since the 80s, I see Reagan and the beginning of the downturn of everything good in the US. He was the start.

Im sure its both. Russia and China didnt create the dark undercurrents of our culture, they're just exploiting it for all its worth.

The anti-intellectualism isn't just a natural occurrence. It's at least partially if not completely a product of misinformation and other intelligence operations. We could have prevented it, and did not, because Our Freedumbs.

It was never a fair fight

I’m starting to believe he will never kick the bucket. We will never recover from him. All our lives have been made permanently more difficult because of Trump and the republicans.

Its actually true for most of the campaigns in history before WW1 Historically war is 95% marching and foraging and 5% battle. Exhausted/tired people drinking whatever they can find fall sick easily and in military camps the disease then spreads like wildfire.