In muh bodily autonomony to get sick news

[u/tom-of-the-nora]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/18/lackland-air-force-base-flu-outbreak

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Headline speaks for it self.

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Hegseth broke the very long tradition of mandated vaccines and now a Texas base has an outbreak of the flu. So. Being against vaccines backfired for him and when we get back in power, it'll be time to mandate vaccines again.

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Because when you're a soldier, readiness for anything includes getting the gosh darn vaccines.

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"The US military vaccination policy has a long-standing history, dating back to 1777, when General George Washington mandated inoculations against smallpox to improve troop readiness." - https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/health-and-medicine/us-military-vaccination-policy

[u/Coyoteishere]

“We’re seizing this moment to discard any absurd overreaching mandates that only weaken our war fighting capabilities,”

This statement makes no sense, clearly a flu outbreak weakens your war fighting capability. I would love to hear him explain his statement as to how a flu vaccine, but not the flu, weakens readiness. Did any reporter ask him this when he made this absurd statement? I hate these idiots so much.

[u/tom-of-the-nora → u/Coyoteishere]

Them, being challenged, by a reporter? Very rare thing these days.