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    Hegseth is the one who allegedly doesn’t wash his hands and doesn’t believe in germs. He should be removed from power.

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    I really don’t understand what could be the end game cancelling vaccines? What sort of profit they seek when they make people terminally sick? A sick person cannot make money as a healthy person?

    Idk man. I’m baffled by the sheer stupidity of their decisions. Even 5 yr kid would be more reasonable.

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      It becomes a lot easier to comprehend them when you figure out they are just propagandandized contrarian idiots. They don’t have a plan or even a definitive ideology, even the wannabe crusaders like Kegsbreath would be called vapid and empty by the most insane and deteriorated Knight of Saint Lazarus.

      For those who don’t know the Knights of Saint Lazarus started out as an order of lepers who figured if they were going down they were taking saracens with them.

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      They believe minorities have weaker immune systems and are hoping they die in greater numbers. This goes back to RFK Jrs claim that black people don’t need as many vaccines as others.

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      It is called “cutting off your nose to spite your face”. They are so obsessed with looking smarter and contrarian that they are ready to hurt themselves to do it.

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    citing the need for bodily autonomy for servicemembers

    Also Hegseth,

    No more beardos. The era of rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is done.

    He knows what he is.

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    On the upside: If the US ever declares war against us Europeans, we just need do the smallpox-blanket thing again.

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    Yeah I can tell you there are a pile of pissed off airmen . Btw 160 is a small percentage of the airmen on a base. But it’s still going to piss a lot of people off.

    Edit: I was told this is Lackland . The only base where new Airmen are trained. This is a good percentage of the airmen on that base who are going through training. Yeah, they’re gonna be a lot of pissed off airmen. And a lot of pissed off instructors. OK, technically you’re not an airman until you get through training because you’re a trainee at that point. But I’m old-school so I will still call them airmen

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      160 is a good portion of the basic trainees. And I’m sure it’s not done spreading yet.

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        Oh shit! I didn’t realize this was Lackland. Oh hell, yeah there’s a lot of pissed off basic trainees. Thank you for the catch on that.

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    Kinda of interesting that not more profilic antivaxxers die from preventable diseases tbh. I wonder if they get vaccinated in secret.

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      Many of them were vaccinated as kids, so they don’t suffer from their stupidity and instead inflict it upon their kids and othe people.

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      They benefit from herd immunity. Which wouldn’t exist without vaccines. Many of the older ones were also vaccinated as a kid so they are also protected. The ones that usually die from preventable diseases are their children. You can see that with the measles and whooping cough outbreaks that happened in the last few years.

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    Oh cool, I feel like I’ve heard this story before… Something about a flu and an outbreak at a military base.

    A long time ago though. Like probably just a little over a hundred years (at least for the flu).

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    It is almost as if Iran had written the vaccination guidelines for the US air force.

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    I’m not coming to Hegseth’s defence (sorry, “war”) but I’ve had my flu jab every year for the last 30-something years, and it doesn’t prevent you getting flu, it can just make it milder.

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      Same as the Covid vaccine: It makes it less likely that you’ll catch it (though not bringing it down to 0%), and just as importantly, makes you less contagious if you do catch it.

      The outbreak-stopping effect becomes strong when everyone is vaccinated. It doesn’t prevent every individual from becoming infected, but it inhibits disease spread through the population.

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        No, I know - I’m just worried that people will read the headline and think it makes you completely immune. It’s also based on what is calculated to likely be the most virulent strain of flu each year, but obviously there are many and they mutate. Even with 100% vaccination rates, some flu is going to be going around and some pitchfork-wielding, dribbling idiots will kick off saying that vaccination “doesn’t work”.

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          Oh absolutely, I think it’s really important that we talk about flu-vaccines as more something that works on a population level (and that makes disease milder for the individual), than something that gives full protection to the individual. We need to talk about it is such a way that when the driveling idiots talk about an outbreak, we can point out that the outbreak would have effected 10x more people (and have higher lethality) if there weren’t vaccines. We should never claim that these vaccines give full protection to any individual.

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      It can certainly prevent large outbreaks when we’re talking close quarters contact like between people in the military.