COVID vaccine mandate…
12-23-2022, 09:35 PM
#32
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Originally Posted by PRS Guitars
Absolutely false. The mandate was put in place in Aug 2021…
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/25/polit...ate/index.html
We knew in Jan 2021 that immunization - while protective from severe disease - did not effectively keep people from either getting or spreading COVID.
https://www.healthline.com/health-ne...e-what-to-know
And even before that, we knew that the military age cohort had few serious cases and even fewer deaths. We knew that back when Spain and Italy were having their initial widespread epidemics.
https://www.epicentro.iss.it/en/coro...tober_2021.pdf
Even before the START of the mandate it was clear this was not a militarily significant illness. By the deadline for active duty troops to get it 3-6 months later it was obvious from DODs own statistics that this was the case.
https://www.defense.gov/Spotlights/C...-DOD-Response/
12-24-2022, 07:39 AM
#33
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Originally Posted by PRS Guitars
Absolutely false. The mandate was put in place in Aug 2021…well after lockdowns had happen. Covid had spread, and we knew it didn’t effect young people. If your flag officer friends supported the mandate, please tell them to go choke themselves for us.
And the vaccines still largely prevented severe covid even with delta. Omicron? Hard to say how much it matters since omicron isn't severe by comparison. But the wheels turn slowly, and here we are with the mandate repealed (by politics, not policy).
My friends are senior enough to know what's going on, but not senior enough to personally drive big-navy or DoD policy. I think they were all like my... ambivalent and resigned, just another shot among many over decades in the mil.
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