by Ponderer on October 14, 2021 9:19 am
Many years ago we were at a family reunion and one of my sisters oldest friends and her husband were there too. He was active duty in the Marines and had just gotten back from Iraq. He told us about this experimental drug they were forcing all the active duty service members in theater to take. It was to ward off the effects of nerve gas or some such if they were exposed to it. He said it was making a lot of the guys really sick. But it didn't matter. He was not allowed to refuse and he had to take it. They had no choice in the matter at all.
He said that your body belongs to the military. He knew a guy that got in shit-tons of trouble for getting a bad sunburn on his off-time because it kept him from being at peak performance. They look at it as if your body is their property and you have damaged it, he said.
I guess things have changed a lot in the military if any service member can refuse to get a vaccine against a virulent disease that could sideline a whole platoon if left to its own devices from some who abstain from getting it.
by Curt_Anderson on October 14, 2021 9:50 am
As I suggested in the first comment above, the military personnel will be vaccinated.
This just appeared in Voice Of America:
"According to data on active-duty troops obtained Wednesday by VOA, 91% of the Army, 99% of the Navy, 96% of the Air Force and Space Force, and 91% of the Marine Corps are fully or partially vaccinated."
If HtS's hypothesis is correct that a lack of vaccinations would demonstrate the military's lack of respect for Biden, then the corollary is also true: A 90-plus percent vaccination rate demonstrates the military's overwhelming respect for Biden.
voanews.com
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Hundreds of thousands of U.S. service members remain unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Pentagon's first compliance deadlines near, with lopsided rates across the individual services and a spike in deaths among military reservists illustrating how political division over the shots has seeped into a nonpartisan force with unambiguous orders.