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I agree with you that he cannot be forced to take the vaccine, and in the military, they could just reassign him, or should be able to. It was irresponsible for
by eggy 5y ago
I agree with you that he cannot be forced to take the vaccine, and in the military, they could just reassign him, or should be able to. It was irresponsible for him not to get tested, but now that he has had COVID, he is the same if not less dangerous to his crew than vaccinated crew members. I am not vaccinated, and my coworkers have contracted COVID twice after being vaccinated and boosted. I know my natural immunity will keep me from having a severe second bout, but it's interesting that at 57 years old, I have not gotten it and three younger, fit, vaccinated and boosted people around me have. Neither has my recovered family gotten COVID since our infection over a year ago. And we all test well-above the antibody test minimum for positive by an order of magnitude. Look Ma, no booster! That and the two studies showing the spike protein does enter the cell nucleus in vitro (like a study over 6 months ago also showed also in vitro) makes feel more comfortable with my decision not to get vaccinated. A lot of stuff coming to the surface now that things are turning back to normal somewhat. People were scrambling to vaccinate their 5 to 11 year-old children, and now it's shown to drop to 12% effectiveness after only 30 days. A low risk group, with an ineffective vaccine, with potential to enter their adapting bodies and potentially be worse for them in the short and far term (cancer 10 years down the road, fertility issues, etc., who knows?) I don't think the black-and-white, ignore-the-naturally-immune-chant of, "pandemic of the vaccinated vs. the unvaccinated" holds much water now, and people forget rather than learn, while their lords make money and do as they please. Pfizer's sure done well for itself as the once-most-mistrusted pharmacy company in one of the biggest mistrusted market (big pharma). Who can blame this CO?
- not2b 5y agoThe Constitution says that the president is commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Commanders have been ordering their subordinates to get vaccines going all the way back to George Washington and it's unprecedented for courts to question the power of the president to do that. It's no more of an infringement than ordering an officer into battle when their is a nonzero risk of being killed is. It's part of what he signed up for. In the past, soldiers who didn't want to accept a required vaccine were removed from service.
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- eggy 5y agoRead my first sentence. I agree he can be reassigned. I am not arguing the military having the right to I belonged to a volunteer military boys club in my pre-teens, and I went to military school for four years looking for a scholarship, since I grew up below the poverty line. I did what was told, believe me. That was many years ago with George Washington. These vaccines do not have any long-term safety data; they cannot, since they are too new. The current president ignored natural immunity, while I think good Ol' George wouldn't have especially after +140m Americans have it for sure if not more. I do hope and pray it is safe in the long run, since my older children were left with little choice by their respective universities. And that was after they both got COVID from me. My daughter worked on the front lines as an EMT and an urgent care provider during the whole start of the pandemic. Don't they allow all sorts of accommodation for gender identity and sexual reassignment? Certainly not the military of years ago, so maybe this is good change unless you think the days of good Ol' George were easy living.