Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rescinded the flu vaccine requirement in April, and in May influenza began spreading at Lackland, which is the hub of Air Force basic training, graduating 35,000 airmen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.
He died with pure blood, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!
Has anyone gotten to the bottom of whether Hegseth really does not wash his hands?
I mean, even if it was a “joke”, why would anyone take advice from this dumbass about their vaccination schedules?
The US military has long given all new recruits a whole lot of vaccines. Mostly because it keeps them alive, and because it takes away the incentive for potential adversaries to do things like release smallpox again. The politically-appointed leadership has long had the discretion to choose which vaccines. So he took away a requirement for a flu vaccine, even though the flu has a long history of killing more soldiers than combat.
Combine that with a whole lot of antivax propaganda kicking around, and a large fraction of soldiers didn’t get this vaccine.
and because it takes away the incentive for potential adversaries to do things like release smallpox again
wow, I never even thought of reasons like that, that would be insane.
The good thing about vaccine denial-ism is that it tends to kill people stupid enough to fall for vaccine denial-ism…
And their children…
And any vulnerable bystanders who can’t be vaccinated and depend on herd immunity.
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…
Stupid isn’t genetic. Just like eugenics isn’t a real science.
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…
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.
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.
I thought there was a genetic component to intelligence.
