Posted on 02/18/2021 11:09:16 AM PST by PROCON
More than two-thirds of U.S. service members offered the COVID-19 vaccine have opted to receive it -- but the high rate of troops turning it down has lawmakers voicing grave concerns.
Speaking before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, Defense officials, including Air Force Maj. Gens. Jeff Taliaferro, vice director for operations on the Joint Chiefs, and Steven Nordhaus, director of operations with the National Guard Bureau, said the vaccine acceptance rate for troops is, on average, between 66% and 70%.
Taliaferro added that the rate "varies by different groups," but vaccine refusal has not affected deployability because the military has adapted to working in a pandemic environment.
"The services and the combatant commands have worked very hard over the last year to make sure we can operate in a COVID environment well before the vaccines were available," he said during testimony. "The addition of the vaccine should make us more capable."
According to Taliaferro, the Defense Department has distributed 506,000 shots, including 147,000 second doses to service members.
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Well, you certainly don’t know how to actually have a discussion. You just point and shoot. Your point that somehow you are the expert because you’re been in the military doesn’t rebut the fact that ESPEICLLY when it’s government, don’t take their medical advice.
The fact that members of the military may be forced to take the vaccine sidesteps the issue.
Please, don’t call me, I’ll call you.
You are masterful with the use of logical fallacies.
“You can also watch him endlessly praise Fauci and Birx, and Ventilators.”
I don’t think he had a choice.
But one needs to parse his words. He also suggested that with good therapeutics, the vaccine might not be necessary.
And...President Trump has not gotten the vaccine himself. Neither has Melania. And neither have any of the family members. I bet they never will.. Recall Melania treated her cv19 “with nutrition and supplements”. Smart lady.
When and if people start dropping like flies due to this experimental vax, it will be on Biden and the Democrats. Recall that the biggest vaccine proponents outside of conventional medicine are the Democrats. Here in Texas in particular, the big medical freedom caucus is 100% Republican. And we are working on preventing businesses from mandating shots. After all, if there is no liability, and if we have great therapeutics, no one needs the shot anyway. Let Bill Gates control population some other way.
“Thus we won’t know until it’s too late. I say let all military under 40 just tough it out and make the shots voluntary for >40...just the way it ought to be for genpop”
Yep.
The only other thing is that I would remove any liability protection from these shots.
You are masterful at not saying anything and avoiding any kind of substantive debate.
Please, go away. You are a waste of time.
You are masterful at not saying anything and avoiding any kind of substantive debate.
There can be no debate when you have to experience to reach back to.
You're just getting schooled. Accept it.
You don’t know what the hell you are talking about. You’re real close to being on my No Fly Zone List. You’ve shown yourself to reply in bad faith with no intention of a substantive discussion and a complete waste of time
Again, don’t call me, I’ll call you.
You’ve shown yourself to reply in bad faith with no intention of a substantive discussion and a complete waste of timeSays the guy that won't even answer a question.
There can be no discussion when you have no knowledge in the subject.
There can be no discussion when you only want me to reply to your strawman arguments.
So, sign me up for your no fly list.
“Since the beginning of the pandemic, 150,910 U.S. service members have tested positive for COVID-19; 21 have died.” That’s a survivability rate of 99.9861. That’s practically non-existent. Especially considering they all died of other things like car crashes, accidents and cancer.
You got it.
I’ve got you down as
Arones: arrogant A/H who has no idea what’s he’s talking about, nor any intention for a coherent good-faith discussion. Nasty. A total and complete waste of time
BTW, I’ve noticed over the years that bad-faith FReepers like yourself that land on my No-Fly Zone List don’t last very long on FR.
In the meantime I will do my best not to respond to the like of you since you are a total and complete waste of time.
All you had to do was answer one question. I wonder why you wouldn’t.
Wonder away. I try not to answer rhetorical questions that deflect from the subject at hand.
BYE!
Were you in the military?
That’s not rhetorical.
You are a weakling.
You’re an idiot.
You don’t have the discipline to ignore me.
You could have gained discipline in the military.
So far, I’m feeling no impact of being on your no fly list.
You don’t hear the buzzing? It’ll come soon enough. You are a complete idiot.
Bye again.
Still can’t keep your word.
Ladies! Ladies! 👩 calm down.. Here’s an ice cream 🍦 ....
I don’t know what your problem is but go away and don’t never come back.
My word to you is get lost.
“You’re just getting schooled”
You schooled no one, kid. The article isn’t what you think the military is, it is that there are service members who refuse the shot.
How did you get so distracted by calling people names because you think they may not have been in the military, Sunshine?
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