You don't even have to serve to know about the needlefest in boot/basic. It's pretty much a motif in every war movie since forever. Some big tough guy always passes out at the sight of the needle.
The problem is, as my fully-vaccinated, going on 21 years of active duty husband can tell you, the military is full of mouth-breathing dimwits who internalize this stuff and will go down fighting for something that, had it happened 15 years ago when tucker was still wearing a stupid bow tie, they literally would not have given a second thought to. To me, that is *the* most infuriating thing about the pandemic, the big lie, all of it. The gqp foot soldiers are too incurious to recognize they are fighting a proxy war that will not win them anything. There are no winners here, other than the few people at the top who are hoping to hang on to power, and money. They don't give a damn about cletus and his cousins. They just want to keep them angry so they don't notice that they are working twice as hard as they used to, for half the pay.
And if a squad of Americans in a battle has 30% deathly sick with Covid and needing care from the other 75% how effective of a fighting squad are they?
There is a good reason military must take vaccines.
"Literally the week you get to basic training, it's just like WHOA HEY, here's some needles!"
Although the suite of vaccinations have changed over the years, the only actual needles I faced in my time were for TB tests and a big-assed peninicllin shot (prophylactic, everyone got one) in the ass. Everything else was via pneumatic guns. It's much faster that way.
Also too, related: the military is pondering continuing the Pandemic policy of quarantining new recruits prior to the start of training, on a permanent basis. Turns out it's done wonders for eliminating the usual "Recruit Crud" that typically degrades the first few weeks of training. Lessons learned!
"The fighting strength of the military is young, healthy people, virtually all of them at extremely low risk of dying from COVID. In fact, to this day, only 46 members of the entire U.S. military have died from the coronavirus over the last year and a half."
I guess Tuckems forgot how Navy deployments were virtually crippled during the first months of the Pandemic by ship-board outbreaks. Sure is a good thing China didn't pick that moment to stir shit up in the South China Sea or invade Taiwan!
Which actually happens. It happened to me once. It's mostly a result of standing at attention for however long it takes for the Corpsmen to get their shit together and start the shots. If you're tense on top of that, passing out is a real possibility.
My old Navy buddy (R.I.P.) was a conservative but he would have wet his pants laughing about soldiers deciding what they might or might not do if they felt like it. That is pretty much exactly what Basic Training Is. Not.
High testosterone individuals? This is all about swollen balls again, isn’t it?
"Swollen balls" are the new Bitcoin, or something.
High testosterone man: “fuck, yeah, I’m getting vaccinated.”
Remember last year when an aircraft carrier was out of commission because COVID was tearing through the crew?
Those things are kinda expensive to build and maintain, and having one out of commission for any length of time is a bad look.
You don't even have to serve to know about the needlefest in boot/basic. It's pretty much a motif in every war movie since forever. Some big tough guy always passes out at the sight of the needle.
this is about shilling supplements "intended" to treat a condition that is not generally a medical problem.
The problem is, as my fully-vaccinated, going on 21 years of active duty husband can tell you, the military is full of mouth-breathing dimwits who internalize this stuff and will go down fighting for something that, had it happened 15 years ago when tucker was still wearing a stupid bow tie, they literally would not have given a second thought to. To me, that is *the* most infuriating thing about the pandemic, the big lie, all of it. The gqp foot soldiers are too incurious to recognize they are fighting a proxy war that will not win them anything. There are no winners here, other than the few people at the top who are hoping to hang on to power, and money. They don't give a damn about cletus and his cousins. They just want to keep them angry so they don't notice that they are working twice as hard as they used to, for half the pay.
With all that righteous indignation, you would think Tucker's blood pressure would be dangerously high.
It would be horrible if he stroked out on camera and shuffled off this mortal coil.
Just horrible!
And if a squad of Americans in a battle has 30% deathly sick with Covid and needing care from the other 75% how effective of a fighting squad are they?
There is a good reason military must take vaccines.
He's been to Boot licking Camp!
You know who wasn't afraid of receiving an untested drug cocktail? 'Nuff said!https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
"Literally the week you get to basic training, it's just like WHOA HEY, here's some needles!"
Although the suite of vaccinations have changed over the years, the only actual needles I faced in my time were for TB tests and a big-assed peninicllin shot (prophylactic, everyone got one) in the ass. Everything else was via pneumatic guns. It's much faster that way.
Also too, related: the military is pondering continuing the Pandemic policy of quarantining new recruits prior to the start of training, on a permanent basis. Turns out it's done wonders for eliminating the usual "Recruit Crud" that typically degrades the first few weeks of training. Lessons learned!
As others have noted, there are no women in Tucker's military.
"The fighting strength of the military is young, healthy people, virtually all of them at extremely low risk of dying from COVID. In fact, to this day, only 46 members of the entire U.S. military have died from the coronavirus over the last year and a half."
I guess Tuckems forgot how Navy deployments were virtually crippled during the first months of the Pandemic by ship-board outbreaks. Sure is a good thing China didn't pick that moment to stir shit up in the South China Sea or invade Taiwan!
Which actually happens. It happened to me once. It's mostly a result of standing at attention for however long it takes for the Corpsmen to get their shit together and start the shots. If you're tense on top of that, passing out is a real possibility.
My old Navy buddy (R.I.P.) was a conservative but he would have wet his pants laughing about soldiers deciding what they might or might not do if they felt like it. That is pretty much exactly what Basic Training Is. Not.