It turns out eventually you have to deal with reality.
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base
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#62"Under President [Donald J.] Trump, the War Department continues to take decisive action to once again restore freedom and strength to our joint force. We're seizing this moment to discard any absurd overreaching mandates that only weaken our warfighting capabilities." - Secretary Hegseth in April 2026 War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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#63In a sane administration, the complete and total lack of judgement that allowed vaccine mandates to go away should have led to an instant loss of confidence in sec def and anyone in the chain that didn't raise concerns about that decision. Anyone that studies even the slightest amount of military history knows that disease used to kill more people in war than bullets until -very- recently. The fact that potentially t…
There's a double layer of irony here, where the people criticizing people of the ignorance of "unintended" consequences of vaccine fear will play defense for the unintended consequence of causing that fear by the extremely aggressive pushing of vaccine policies during covid
I'll bite. The Covid vaccines were extremely effective. This information brought to us by a data leak of the report blocked by the US government...
"NEW YORK (AP) — A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has finally been published after being blocked from a government health journal.
The vaccine was found to be about 55% effective against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations, and reduced COVID-19-related trips to emergency departments and urgent care clinics by 50%, according to the study published Tuesday by JAMA Network Open."
https://apnews.com/article/cdc-covid-vaccine-effective-study...
Re: Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base
#64I have a close friend who is an officer nearing twenty years. He has not had a tendency to criticize his job. However, he has been adamant that vaccines are incredibly important for the military and the policy changes have really angered him, specifically because of the damage it does to readiness.
>he has been adamant that vaccines are incredibly important for the military and the policy changes have really angered him, specifically because of the damage it does to readiness.
Your friend knows his history; disease has been the leading cause of death in warfare, historically, killing more soldiers than actual combat.
Re: Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base
#65In a sane administration, the complete and total lack of judgement that allowed vaccine mandates to go away should have led to an instant loss of confidence in sec def and anyone in the chain that didn't raise concerns about that decision. Anyone that studies even the slightest amount of military history knows that disease used to kill more people in war than bullets until -very- recently. The fact that potentially t…
There's a double layer of irony here, where the people criticizing people of the ignorance of "unintended" consequences of vaccine fear will play defense for the unintended consequence of causing that fear by the extremely aggressive pushing of vaccine policies during covid
I dare a grammarian to take the above-sentence and diagram it out. No, I'm not "feigning surprise", I am legitimately struggling to figure out exactly who's being blamed for what.
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#67Chesterton's Fence strikes again
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, c…
I'm still waiting to hear that soliloquy in a movie.
It's pretty much a rewrite of a famous monologue in Network, for those who haven't seen that before. At least in tone and delivery.
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> Anticipating all the downvotes
Please don't do this: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading" [1].
> flu vaccines are extremely ineffective
They're not. They're not particularly effective for preventing flu in an individual. But at the group level, they have a clear and useful effect.