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Bit idea: Iranian undercover operative who doesn't cover his mouth when he sneezes.
Iranian mr. bean joins the US army
lmao, people are gonna die in boot camp. It's already basically a biowarfare petri dish (a hundred gross teenagers and early 20-somethings from across the country all sleeping, eating, and bathing in the same room). Adding optional vaccines is going to kill people lmao
God willing
💯 ^ I got really bad pneumonia in boot. Coughed so hard I threw up. Powered through it for 2 month like the fucking idiot teen I was and it eventually lifted. But have to say, I think the vaccines they give us in boot are the reason I don't get sick as much as most people do to this day.
It is a truly miserable disease. I understand why it had up to a 40% fatality rate before antibiotics--anyone with a comorbidity up to and including JUST BEING A LITTLE OLD would be absolutely flattened by that kind of coughing and fever.
Critical support to Pete Hegseth for increasing infirmity in the US Armed Forces.
Do tetanus next!
Do tetanus next!
tetanus antibody titres from an adult booster dose are impressively persistent well into old age
I would think it more effective to lathe dropping measles, hepatitis, typhoid, or rabies
Measles is part of the MMR that's on the standard schedule for infants and toddlers, but hepatitis was the one I was looking for.
healthcare is for cowards. i protect myself by getting christian nationalist iconography tattooed all over my body.
they are amulets and sigils that ward off spiritual diseases like diarrhea, poverty, and my wife left me.
Future struggle session about a socialist candidate's anti-diarrhea tattoos making him unsuitable for office
What's the tattoo to ward off all my apes gone? I think it's getting around in my area
Critical support to the US empire for making it increasingly more dangerous to be a US soldier
And you know what? The 'brave warriors' in the military shouldn't have food either. Food has made them weak and dependent. They will become strong and unstoppable once they are no longer being emasculated by the need for food.
What is the point of putting Burger Kings and McDonalds on military bases if we also have to provide meals for free? This is unfair to the brave franchise owners.
Let the market resolve the issue. Tell troops they are now empowered to make their own decisions about what they will eat every night. No more handouts encouraging sloth and infantilizing our brave warriors!
You see what they're eating in the navy now? Or that they're rolling out changes in how much they subsidize soldiers eating on base? Nobody is making it harder to be a US soldier than the USA
oh hell yes can you imagine a massive flu outbreak across a carrier crew and everyone's got explosive vomiting and diarrhea and most of the toilets are broken
Lighting a lint trap on fire just for a change of pace
Theres a period in every basic training rotation where almost everyone in the barracks gets sick, usually happens around two-three weeks in, and there are always two or three guys who are straight up bed ridden and pass out risks
A day comes where one morning they have to bust out multiple vans to drive recruits to the base hospital or clinic. And this is a couple weeks after everyone has their shots, I can't imagine the carnage that's gonna hit some of these training rotations
Armies being a great place to start an outbreak has been a known thing since like...the first army ever more or less.
The flu vaccine is what made me trans. They probably lose quite a few recruits to Big Pharma every year.
The culture war military. Next fire all the medics and doctors because it doesn't kill the enemy.
Jesus fuck these people are idiots
Real 1918 flu pandemic vibes.
Having the flu really helps my warfighting ability, HBU?
Next up: demanding they cough into each others mouths to prove they don't have cooties and demanding noone wipes they ass or flush they toilet, which will make them less gay
Wonder if he'll also cancel all the deployment jabs too.
5d underwater blindfolded chess to restore karmic balance. They're gonna walk into foreign land and get ten different plagues as penance for what the gringo colonists did to the indigenous peoples.
The best new weapon of the free world against the terrorist american troops: Canisters with some flu or coronavirus.
"Canisters" of a virus that degrades in direct sun?
I'd like to announce the first-of-its-kind revival on a US military base. The first event will take place in the chapel inside the bomb shelter, where our special guest will be an Iranian who has recently given up Islam to accept Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior.
Hell yeah
Spongebob narrator voice: some time later...
"It appears as if the perfidious browns have unleashed some sort of Havanacold bioweapon against our brave defenders of empire"
This will be great for all those older recruits that are now allowed in! 😃👍
good, i hope the flu kills them all. would be a nice bit of historical symmetry with the destruction of native american populations caused by diseases brought over by kkkrakkkers. a taste of their own ~~medicine~~ illness
Jesus, how many times are they going to make me make the "Most lethal military! ^Teehee^ ^But^ ^we^ ^didn't^ ^say^ ^for^ ^whoOO^" joke?
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
they can prevent all diseases by injecting beef tallow instead
Critical support to comrade heggy for killing the tools of imperialism
Kinda funny considering during the first US war on Iraq, they tested a lot of experimental vaccines on the troops :
So they clearly have no qualms about experimental vaccines, only trusted / established ones.
Every military base is gonna be like MGSV after mission 25. They are gonna die shidding their doodoo asses as their lungs fill with fluids
Masterful gambit, sir
That's such an amazing move. Crayon eaters do not need that woke shit clearly.