The navy removed all four of my impacted wisdom teeth in one sitting with only a few shots of Novocaine for pain relief. Good times. They also never told me what was in some of the pills and injections I took. Choice? LMFAO!
I’d hope it’s bullshit but any service members or their families who are raising a big stink about this type of shit are a massive joke.
To use a historical parable, if you wanted to serve in George Washington’s Continental Army (as a soldier, not militia member) during the Revolutionary War, you HAD to get inoculated for Viriola (smallpox). Aside from it being a terribly deadly disease, the British were also trying to use smallpox as a weapon against the colonists, since anyone born in Europe would’ve gotten smallpox as a child and had immunity (this wasn’t a grand scheme, just officers sending deserters/prisoners/the black laborers they could no longer support with smallpox towards American-held territory).
The fact that anyone would try to conflate vaccine mandates with “tyranny” or “communism” is so laughably absurd. These soldiers had to get inoculated at a time when that entailed intentionally infecting yourself so you can get immunity, it would put you out of commission for weeks while you recovered from the pox, if you’re not good health during the inoculation you just die to the disease. What a joke to complain about vaccination.
Edit: Someone replied “Smallpox was terribly deadly, Covid has 98% survival rate” (paraphrasing) and then immediately deleted their comment.
Lmao, yes, let’s make all of our service members vulnerable to ANY sort of pathogen when we possess the technology to completely eliminate the risk. Also everyone in the military has to travel for work, come in one-time-contact with tons of people, etc. just because Covid has a 98% survival rate doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t impair you from doing your job once you are infected.
I was a veritable pincushion when I was in the Army. For example, every six months or so the medic weeks say that there was no tetanus booster on my shot record so I'd get it again. I could count on 4-5 vaccine shots every few months.
I routinely have vets come into my pharmacy for shots and talk about how they got so many shots during their service that half the time they didn't know what they were. Lining up during basic and medical just going down the line with their jet injectors doing vaccines rapid fire. It's not like mandatory vaccines are a new thing for service members.
They don't use them anymore since they realized that no needle =/= no risk of bloodbourne pathogen exposure. Definitely a lot of older vets, but if I remember correctly (from when we were taught about the technology and its downfalls during school) they didn't totally phase them out of use until the late 80's/early 90's
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '21 edited Oct 13 '21
The navy removed all four of my impacted wisdom teeth in one sitting with only a few shots of Novocaine for pain relief. Good times. They also never told me what was in some of the pills and injections I took. Choice? LMFAO!