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Lawmakers ask Biden to issue waiver to make Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for members of military
cnn.com ^ | March 24, 2021 | Ellie Kaufman

Posted on 04/10/2021 7:18:05 PM PDT by ransomnote

[video at link: These soldiers were hesitant to get vaccinated. Hear what changed their minds 02:50]

(CNN)A group of Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to President Joe Biden requesting that he issue a "waiver of informed consent" to make getting vaccinated against Covid-19 mandatory for all US military service members.

CNN obtained a copy of the letter, which was sent on Wednesday from a congressional aide.
Currently the Department of Defense cannot make vaccinations mandatory because they have only been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use. A waiver from the President could bypass that rule.
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The Department of Defense has said publicly that the opt-out rate among service members eligible to be vaccinated is about 33%, but last week military officials and service members CNN spoke with from several bases and units across the country suggest the current rejection rate may be closer to 50%.
"I think the true opt-in rate right now would probably be around 50-ish percent," said a military health care source about numbers on a military base of some 40,000 active duty troops. The source spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss vaccinations.
The letter says "disinformation and vaccine skepticism" are influencing service members to opt out of being vaccinated. 

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Prayers up for our military. They deserve better -they should not have their rights stripped from them because they volunteered to serve.

Let's see if the are being told about the documented risks, because the CDC/Fauci are hiding risks from the rest of the public.

Informed Consent: Covid-19 vaccination risk of Antibody Dependent Enhancement Results of the study: COVID-19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralising antibodies may sensitise vaccine recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated.

Vaccines for SARS, MERS and RSV have never been approved, and the data generated in the development and testing of these vaccines suggest a serious mechanistic concern... disease via antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE).

This risk is sufficiently obscured in clinical trial protocols and consent forms for ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trials that adequate patient comprehension of this risk is unlikely to occur, obviating truly informed consent by subjects in these trials."

1 posted on 04/10/2021 7:18:05 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
The day it becomes mandatory, I'm out !

Someone else can go die in the desert.

2 posted on 04/10/2021 7:22:15 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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To: ransomnote
requesting that he issue a "waiver of informed consent" to make getting vaccinated against Covid-19 mandatory

Feels like a triple negative, or something. Not clear writing, in my opinion. In simple language, the proposal is just to make the vaccine mandatory for all military?

3 posted on 04/10/2021 7:23:59 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: ransomnote

This is exactly why no one should take the jab.


4 posted on 04/10/2021 7:24:15 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List )
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To: ransomnote

Probably if I were military I would demand a medical discharge or medical retirement depending on my length of service.


5 posted on 04/10/2021 7:24:29 PM PDT by algore
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To: ransomnote

This shot is NOT a vaccine - it is an experimental “treatment” ....


6 posted on 04/10/2021 7:25:11 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: P-Marlowe

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘢𝘣.

In general mandating the vaccine seems like it could be a disaster for readiness, especially if we start seeing significant adverse effects six months, or a year from now.


7 posted on 04/10/2021 7:29:48 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: ransomnote
Somebody is going to find out how Americans deal with "mandatory".

I dodged my "mandatory" flu shot while in the USAF in '73.

8 posted on 04/10/2021 7:31:30 PM PDT by G Larry (Write in Donald J. Trump on ALL MLB All-Star Ballots!!!!!)
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To: ransomnote; markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; JDoutrider; ...

Active Duty ping.


9 posted on 04/10/2021 7:32:42 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Fascists never think they’re the fascists.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Sounds like military personnel must take regularly approved vaccines as ordered but if the vaccine has not been regularly approved (which this hasn’t) then they have the right to opt out and must sign an informed consent to opt in. The Dem legislators want the military to be able to treat the vaccines as regularly tested and approved.


10 posted on 04/10/2021 7:34:35 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: caseinpoint

Thanks. I guess the Democrats just want to “deem” it approved.


11 posted on 04/10/2021 7:36:27 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: algore

Next, Heir Fuhrer will mandate vaccination for Medicare and Medicaid coverage. I put nothing past these Bolsheviks.


12 posted on 04/10/2021 7:37:48 PM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz )
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To: caseinpoint

Tuskegee


13 posted on 04/10/2021 7:38:02 PM PDT by No Left Turn
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To: P-Marlowe

Yup.

The “my body, my choice” people.

The only people worse are the supposed freepers who agree with this.


14 posted on 04/10/2021 7:41:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ransomnote

You notice when Democrats pull this crap the media dignifies them with the title “lawmakers”.

When Republicans do it, it’s “Republicans in Congress”


15 posted on 04/10/2021 7:41:36 PM PDT by Fred Austere
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“-they should not have their rights stripped from them because they volunteered to serve.”

Did you serve?

I know when I was in I received untold numbers of shots. And it was not possible to decline.

A good number of times we didn’t even know what we were getting.

I’m astounded the Pentagon has not ordered this already and are awaiting POTUS directive.

No, none of them has a right to decline this shot. They are property of the US Government.


16 posted on 04/10/2021 7:45:08 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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No, none of them has a right to decline this shot. They are property of the US Government.

You have no idea of what you are talking about.

17 posted on 04/10/2021 7:48:53 PM PDT by Captain Walker ("Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things." - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: ransomnote
They deserve better -they should not have their rights stripped from them because they volunteered to serve.

Once you enter the military your rights aren't governed by the constitution, per se, but by the UCMJ, Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Congress passed a law earlier to allow military members to opt out of the vaccine.

That this mandatory vaccine law is being pressed now by democrats just shows the hate and disdain they have for our Troops and for freedom.

18 posted on 04/10/2021 7:50:04 PM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: ransomnote

WTAF


19 posted on 04/10/2021 7:50:07 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Captain Walker

The entire gist of the article was for POTUS to remove the waiver requirement and direct all personnel to get the shot.

Does that sound like they have a “right” to decline it to you?

They do not.


20 posted on 04/10/2021 7:51:15 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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