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By this logic, the military would have started vaccinating their troops for COVID by March 2020.

• postalrat 6y ago
  How is that in any way related?
  • yoz-y 6y ago
    Both imply that the military has scientific knowledge that the bulk of public research does not. (about events that are not directly caused by them)
    • gdubs 6y ago
      It’s pretty well documented that intelligence agencies new about the novel coronavirus very early on, and we know the vaccines were completed very rapidly after the genomic information was published — so this argument is sort of off. The US appears to have had reasons for not rushing to vaccinate its military. China, by contrast, made the decision to vaccinate their troops a lot earlier. In other words the military clearly does have early eyes on all sorts of situations - and their action or inaction on that info is a separate consideration.