Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rescinded the flu vaccine requirement in April, and in May influenza began spreading at Lackland, which is the hub of Air Force basic training, graduating 35,000 airmen every year.

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      And any vulnerable bystanders who can’t be vaccinated and depend on herd immunity.

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      I hate to say it, but yeah… I know this smells of eugenetics, but getting stupid out of the gene-pool is not necessarily a bad thing…

      Watch the first 5 minutes of the movie “Idiocracy” for a great example of why…

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        It’s a hilarious premise for a movie, but a lot of ink has already been spilled to explain that it’s not really how intelligence works…

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          It’s not, as someone else explained, it’s nurture, not nature… But kids raised by dumbasses are more likely to grow up to be dumbasses themselves… (I live in SW Virginia, I see it first hand ALL the time.)

          There are, of course, exceptions, but it still holds true more often than not.

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        The thing is, stupid isn’t a gene thing. A set of intelligent parents can have moronic offspring and dumb ones can have intelligent kids. That’s why so many people break through the indoctrination despite their parents best efforts.