Because "Biden"...it's a partisan, not rational reaction.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:32 amLame why? Because you don't like hearing how other people think?CU88 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:10 amSo sad to see you post this, over many years I learned a lot from your postings; this is just lame.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:10 pmYour one-size-fits all logic does not work here either.a fan wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 9:55 pmWhat the F are you talking about? YOU had to get vaccinations to do your job around the world, OS. Did you whine and complain about it? Did you ask them to google the side effects for you so that you could "do your own research"? F no.If you're going to force all service members to get vaxxed, then round up all their fellow un-vaxxed citizens & force them to get vaxxed.
My five year old HAD to get SEVERAL vaccines to attend school. Are you telling me that our troops and military leaders are now so scared and weak.... that my five year old is braver than they are? Really?
We were vaccinated for protection against infectious diseases peculiar to the area to which we were deploying (like malaria & yellow fever), not against a universal pandemic which to us, as young, healthy deploy-able human specimens, would be no more serious than a cold or flu.
Covid is no longer a threat to the young & the healthy. If service members had covid risk factors, they'd already be medically disqualified from serving.
Your toddler is vaxxed against diseases like measels which can be nearly eliminated, as we were vaxxed against polio.
Covid has become endemic, like the flu or the common cold. Covid boosters will become like annual flu shots, possibly combined with them.
The military is like any other employer. It's hard to find enough people willing to serve who are qualified, meet the physical standards & are willing to surrender their rights, as it is. Symbolic mandates like this, will force (or drive) more people out of the service than the virus would take. Most troops will take the shot if ordered, even more if combined with an extra day of weekend liberty.
This is a stupid fight to pick. Biden should focus on getting his Amtrak friends vaxxed.
Dealing with the vaccine mandate at my work, and a large number of veterans (~60% at my company), this is the way a significant chunk of people feel. Remember, Biden won 51% to 47%. There are tons of people who generally don't agree with Biden's decisions.
97+% of the military followed orders...
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronaviru ... vaccinated