The defense secretary described the vaccine requirement, which he lifted in April, as an “absurd, overreaching” mandate.
A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.
The outbreak at the base in San Antonio raced through an Air Force Basic Military Training wing, where new recruits sleep on bunk beds in open bays and share meals at large communal tables.
A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release. It was not immediately clear whether the death of the trainee, Keon McDaniel, was related to the flu outbreak.
Bah this is just scare mongering. The flu comes every year, you get sick for two weeks or so and are fine for the rest of the year. People with decent immune systems and botany knoedge do better. People dependent on drugs and who screw their immune systems up with vaccines do worse.
This hasn’t been true since 1796 when the first smallpox vaccine was developed. You are saying that people in 1795 were healthier than they are today 🤣. You also don’t seem to understand that vaccines use the immune system…they do not bypass it.
that user is probably a troll or antivaxxer troll.
Get off my planet
…should try some rabies without vaccine, if they feel so confident…
No.
GTFO of here with that “but mah immune system” bullshit.
Uh, “two weeks” is long for people who don’t have savings and really need that working time… You’re encouraging people to “just” tough out 2 weeks of terrible pain to the point of barely being able to use a phone while bedridden? What if it could be completely eradicated? It’s only endemic because of antivaxxers; measles was nearly eliminated by vaccines, etc.
Tell that to the children who got Polio.
Vaccines are a wonderful thing, and YOU ARE NOT.
Don’t breed.
Lol vaccines give your immune system the instructions to fight off illness instead of raw dogging viruses voluntarily like a freak.
come back after you get h1n1 or h5n1, then we will talk.
Sir/Madam, I found this here tag, looks like a forward slash and a letter s, is it yours?
Even if that was true, losing this many people for two weeks out of an eight week program is a HUGE loss in training efficiency.