Yep, gotta agree with PRS Guitars on this one:


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://i.ibb.co/3dP3SxH/36-A8-ACD7-...4-E0805104.jpg


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/

You're talking out of your arse. In Aug 2021 the delta variant was just getting started, and the vaccines worked fine for version 1.0 for at least the timeline which they had experience with.

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 But the wheels turn slowly, and here we are with the mandate repealed (by politics, not policy).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.