Talk about focusing on the non essential. Wait about six months and watch an epidemic of flu amongst our military men and women — those too paranoid or ignorant to recognize the validity of vaccines and hopefully Pete Hegseth will be out there by himself on this one. Daily Beast:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is focused on a new enemy as the war with Iran rages on: the flu shot.
In a video posted Tuesday, Hegseth said the military would be getting rid of its longstanding flu vaccine mandate.
“Our men and women in uniform were forced to choose between their conscience and their country, even when those decisions posed no threat to our military readiness,” Hegseth asserted.
“That era of betrayal is over. Under President Trump, the War Department continues to take decisive action to once again restore freedom and strength to our joint force. We’re seizing this moment to discard any absurd overreaching mandates that only weaken our warfighting capabilities,” he continued.
Hegseth also attacked former President Joe Biden’s administration for requiring that members of the military receive the COVID-19 vaccine amid the deadly pandemic.
He claimed Biden had “waged an unrelenting war on our warriors on many fronts, including when it came to denying them simple medical autonomy and the freedom to express their religious convictions.”
The COVID-19 vaccine mandate has been an issue that Hegseth has railed against for many months, having eliminated that vaccine mandate in September. Last year, Trump signed an executive order to reinstate service members who had been discharged for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
How necessary vaccines impede a soldier’s warfighting capabilities is not something that Hegseth does not elaborate on. This is trivial and destructive, but maybe it will take a headline or two away from the debacle in Iran. It’s a good bash at wokeness, in any event.
He may be trying to compete with Trump for the most stupid man in the world.
Cool. One person in one troop gets sick and it’ll spread like crazy. Hegsdeath is so brilliant! /s
the stupidity is beyond impressive.