refuse to take vaccines.
given an estimate as to when the vaccines will move out of emergency approval status. Once that happens, the DOD will be able to make the vaccine mandatory without Presidential waiver.
Vaccines in the past took years to get approved. If they don't get halted probably another 2 to 4 years before they get full approved imho.
I see the Army is working one, not just for sars-cov2, but sars-cov, and mers. It is in clinical trials.
There are millions of active duty soldiers and yes almost 300,000 of them have contracted COVID, but only 335 of them have died from COVID, Barely one in a thousand active duty soldiers that actually caught COVID have died from it.
Now if you would like to put this in perspective. Members of the VA, who are largely much older and have more co-morbidities than the mainly young and healthy men and women who make up our active military, as this link will show there are about the same amount of actual cases, but 11,464 deaths a fatality rate of almost FORTY times the rate of active duty soldiers.
Personally if I were an active Marine in my twenties or thirties I'd be doing the math about whether or not the vaccine is perhaps MORE risky than the disease it's supposed to protect me from. Quite frankly, at age 62, but with ZERO co-morbidities I am doing the same math and right now at least I too am leaning AGAINST getting the vaccine.
I'm pretty sure that even I could live comfortably, for a while, in a secure military base with indoor plumbing, PX, hospital / medical facilities, etc.. That is one level of readiness or preparedness.
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However, when in the field, away from such "luxuries", troops had better be in the best condition and be truly prepared to cope with almost anything. Covid positive troops receiving diagnosis and treatment on a military base will not progress to more serious illness or death. Out in the boondocks, minor problems (health or otherwise) can progress to become major problems and death and undermine the mission.
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Does anyone know which vaccinations are required before being deployed to various locations? E.g., bubonic plague is still known all over the world, including the US, but it is a bigger problem in India-Pakistan--- also Afghanistan?? Are troops required to get plague vaccine before heading to the Indian sub-continent?
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Requirements should be determined not to keep troops healthy on base but on mission in a hostile environment.
Even "out in the boondocks" military personnel have access to medical care that are BETTER than the facilities available to veterans via the VA.
Nice attempt at diversion, but as usual your argument is specious, irrelevant and quite frankly kind of fucking dumb.
Let me guess, you were never in the military were you?
If he says he's been in actual field combat, he's lying. AGAIN. He's a non-combat hero.
deployed military personnel generally follow the CDC guidelines for visitors to whatever country you are going to. Some vaccinations need to be obtained 2 to 4 weeks before deployment, but the military usually issues the individual orders to each serviceman far enough in advance for them to get whatever shots they need before departure. I still have most of my old shot records from my service days, and yes, plague was usually included no matter where I was going.
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