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Note: He’s a guy who refuses to so much as wash his hands
Modern influenza originated in Kansas, and was spread significantly by US troop deployments in WWI. It also killed tens of thousands of US soliders
Edit: now points to AP and not CBS.
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I support counter attacking aggressions by the american terrorist military with canisters full of some kind of flu or coronavirus.
pete has the IQ of a potted palm.
But not the plant, just the pot
Reminds me of that Golden Girls episode where Sofia refers to mistaking two potted palms for the bathroom.
Alternative to CBS.
Original Associated Press article instead of the syndication to the Connecticut Post.
“because your body, your faith and your convictions are not negotiable.”
LOL fucking assholes.
what was roe vs wade again
Except your exposure to burn pits.
George Washington inoculated the army against smallpox in the revolutionary war.
These idiots don’t realize vaccinating the military is as American as it gets.
Well yeah but that only affected women.
It’s kind of crazy how they just continually do the worst possible thing and in the worst possible way. Always. Even basic common sense shit like we shouldn’t let the flu decimate our military overnight. Even fucking George Washington required soldiers to be innoculared for smallpox. Just regression, bigotry, stupidity, and corruption at every single turn. Giving broken clocks a good look.
Decimate would be by 1/10th.
To reduce by 1/10th, yes.
Frustrating waiting for people to realize it’s all intentional.
That headline stating “modern influenza originated in Kansas” is bullshit. That is NOT what the article says. The so-called Spanish Flu of 1918 indeed is thought to have crossed over from birds in Kansas. But that is one flu, not the entirety of “modern” flu. Influenza can cross over anywhere at any time from most species. Ascribing human ethnicity or geographical locators associated with human populations is ridiculous.
Iran is about to be the first country on earth to weaponize influenza A.
“So how much are they spending on vaccines? Yeah, no, drop that significantly, we’ll get a bigger piece of the pie.” -Lockheed CEO
For less than the individual price of some missiles, you could vaccinate the entire military. Vaccines are cheap. You could vaccinate thousands of soldiers for what it will cost to treat one who gets really sick and ends up hospitalized.
This is absolutely not a cost-saving measure, even if you wholly disregard the costs of care after the fact.
Imagine a 5000 person aircraft carrier crew fighting the flu while trying to work.
We won’t have to imagine for long. Don’t let your dreams be dreams
Ship crud is just a fact of life, perpetually not quite sick not quite well while your stuck on them. It wouldn’t make much difference
I don’t need to imagine it cuz I’m not stupid enough to serve the U.S. military.
Sounds like a them problem.
I hear going to war with a sick army is a great idea.
Don’t forget about the nuclear subs.
Unless the CO is compromised, anyone who opts out will likely find themselves constantly “lucking out” and not going on deployments. The USN has some serious idiots in charge of our nuclear subs but they also really know how bad things get with contagions due a couple classified events.
Well there was that time an aircraft carrier was taken off the line because of rona, so not too hard to imagine how it would go.
Also the whole “man flu” thing is actually real. Testosterone has been shown to weaken parts of the immune system - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5075254/
Even just cruise ships, which are much less crowded, get ravaged by things like norovirus. Navy ships are packed with shit and people
Much like this administration is packed with shit people.
Ugh, I don’t even want to imagine what it’s like being on a cruise ship full of norovirus.
While I am not a big fan of sailing and such, I am one of those rare assholes that absolutely doesn’t get sea sick. That said, being surrounded by vomit and shit everywhere would probably be enough to overcome that mild superpower.
From that 2019 article:
Fox News host Pete Hegseth has said on air that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because “germs are not a real thing”.
Speaking on Fox and Friends, Hegseth said the infectious micro-organisms did not exist because they could not be seen with the naked eye.
This is a man who attended more than one very expensive university and didn’t learn a thing, then said this idiocy, immediately after which the world was hit by a pandemic, and again Hegseth didn’t learn a thing. The guy must be terminally stupid.
Anyway, if you ever have the misfortune to meet Pete Hegseth, don’t shake his shit-covered hand. Although he probably doesn’t believe in wiping his ass or showering either. After all a dirty butthole isn’t real because you can’t see it without using one of these new-fangled mirror things.
The guy must be terminally stupid.
I think the preferred term is “Proudly Ignorant”
Wilful ignorance was a key element in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity. It was the aggressive resistance to learning that he thought made the stupid person especially dangerous. And we see this characteristic in Trump, his sycophants like Hegseth, and his followers.
100%
Shouldn’t this fall into the category of not telling the enemy your strategy or weaknesses? Pete’s not very bright.
George Washington wished he could have had an easy vaccination solution like the military has today. Pete doesn’t understand that historically disease often killed more troops than enemy attacks. Good defense starts with a healthy, immune fighting force.
Even the German Nazis supported vaccination (of “worthy” people only), for crying out loud!
Well, that’s very fucking stupid.
Like giving Hegseth an axe.
Soon to learn what “seasoned” troops means.
I think they’re likely to taste dry and stringy due to a lack of food.
The stupid drunk is listening to the nutter, RFK.
