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  Exactly. Small pox? Anthrax? All the other junk??? Nope… just 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. >
  
  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. >
  
  Realistically, the vast majority of that 30% have had covid one or more times by now. This is dumb but it won't really make much of an impact this far into the pandemic. >
  
  We hear all the time about companies and stores and restaurants and manufacturing lines running behind because so many people are out sick. >
  
  No, when you get stationed in those countries you have to get the vaccinations as required by the host nation. 
  Some service members have already been required to get boosters in order to travel, and other location specific vaccines. >
  
  Must feel great to be stuck inside a tank or submarine with the guy who got a dozen or more vaccine shots but is happy to infect you for "religious reasons". >
  
  At this point we are all but certain the vaccine doesn’t stop transmission, so it really is a personal choice: take the risk of dying or essentially be sure you’re not. I think it should be mandatory to ensure people don’t die from this but let’s not pretend this makes much of a dent in transmission >
  
  
  At this point we are all but certain the vaccine doesn’t stop transmission
  
  No vaccine ever, ever in the history of vaccines has.  100% prevention of transmission is impossible.  The point is to minimize it. >
  
  Last time I checked I’m not catching it spreading polio or herp B while vaccinated 
  6 Covid shots in and I’m still catching and spreading it 
  A soldier being out of action is the same regardless of vaccine status for Covid as that falls on testing and isolation requirements >
  
  Long human history of military and military effects as vectors for infections disease.  One of the central themes of "Guns, Germs and Steel". >
  
  Can we end the mandate to the dozens of other vaccines I was required to get? No? Just COVID? Why? Because people don’t understand science? Ok that checks out