Tony StarkDec 8, 2022

If Republicans want to put forward the idea that it’s been hard to staff the military and this is their reason for repealing vaccination requirements, wait until they try staffing when wide Covid outbreaks hit people working together overseas and in close quarters.

The vaccines prevent spread for a certain amount of time so we have occasional boosters or boosters that can cover new variants. What the vaccines also can do is keep you from getting very ill. Even people who are as healthy as serving members of the military often get quite ill and even die from this disease. And the vaccine reduces that risk by upwards of 90%. And the numbers are early, but it seems to reduce incidences of long COVID.

But no sense in pretending anything Republicans do is pro-service members or pro-health. Never is.

The GOP push to roll back the military’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate, explained-
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/7/23498944/military-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-defense-legislation

The GOP push to roll back the military’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate, explained

It’s the GOP’s latest attempt to undo such policies.

Vox
Show threadJim Dixon Dec 8, 2022
@TonyStark So, what about the Yellow Fever vaccine? Typhoid? Small Pox? Diphtheria? Hep A & B? Those are all on the current overseas vaccination list. That it’s only COVID that’s objectionable is the tell. I had all those vaccines and more when in the military. No one questioned them. If you did, you simply didn’t join the military. Here’s the issue, the vaccine requirement is also shedding QANON as well as the targeted diseases. The GQP wants them in the military.
Show threadScotchfairyDec 8, 2022

@jimnnoke @TonyStark We've been having honest-to-dog measles outbreaks here in the US because certain idiots want to get rid of ALL mandatory vaccinations. This does not make me happy. Especially since we're seeing babies who were only partially vaccinated catch measles.

Waiting for the next super spreader event.

Show threadPalin
@scotchfairy
Did you read about the parents of a baby that were refusing a life saving transfusion because they didn't want vaccinated blood?
Remember the song .." All the stupid people are breeding"?
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