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  You can still get covid even if you're vaxxed. It still means you need time off. That 30% is enough to spread it all over and send many people home for as long as it takes to recover. It could also end some careers as they won't be fit for service with long haul covid.
context: Are all the other vaccine mandates for the military still in place? The ones that haven’t been politicized? Thought so. >
  
  Republicans literally want to undermine our military readiness. >
  
  Who needs arms to defeat the US military? All you need to do is send a Covid-positive person in to cough in their faces and wait. >
  
  Pox blankets worked for the Conquistadors as well. >
  
  If they are afraid of the COVID vaccine wait till the bifurcated needle comes out for the pox vaccine >
  
  The Smallpox vaccine is actually incredibly dangerous, as vaccines go. But it's also effective. >
  
  It is I used to administer it and have finished the series. 
  I also treated a couple of Soldiers who leaned what happens when you ignore the “don’t touch your eyes or balls” part of the brief. >
  
  Yup, it's no joke. >
  
  Bad move. We have to get all kinds of vaccines to ensure health and readiness. The COVID vaccine should not be any different. >
  
  But Democrats had to compromise so that they could secure the trillion dollar pentagon budget. You win some, you lose some. >
  
  I understand having to compromise but it baffles me that of all the things the GOP could have drawn a hard line in they chose that. I guess they are just pandering to their moron base as usual to get votes and stay in power. >
  
  Republicans are fighting for the right to infect others. >
  
  They're also fighting for their survival as a party. Without chaos and anger over miniscule things, they have nothing of value to a huge majority of their poor/middle class base >
  
  The freedumbs they pedal are the ones mostly likely to harm others: infectious diseases, guns and the whole fucking religious freedom to hate. Nothing about freedom of sexual, gender or reproductive choice. >
  
  A true stupid and pointless victory for the GOP. Get ready for more of those. >
  
  Time to create a "Military-Only" version of a vaccine that fights common respiratory infections, and also SARS-COV-2 and other "bird flu" variants such as H1N1.  Problem solved.
  "Is this for Covid!?"
  "No, this is a military vaccine for weaponized respiratory viruses like SARS - wink wink"
  "OK, thanks!" >
  
  Yes, this is good. >
  
  In 6 months: COVID-19 rips through military, weakening preparedness. >
  
  While that makes an “edgy” post, the reality is all current serving members are vaxxed. Most of the recruits coming in the door will have been vaxxed. The general population is something like 70% vaxxed. So it’s a minority that will come in unvaxxed.