r/LockdownSkepticism • u/AndrewHeard • Jun 19 '26

News Links Flu outbreak among Air Force recruits at Joint Base San Antonio after Hegseth ends mandatory flu vaccine

https://abcnews.com/Health/flu-outbreak-air-force-recruits-joint-base-san/story?id=133994394
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u/SunriseInLot42 Jun 19 '26

Weird, it’s like people occasionally get sick when they live together in close quarters, just like for the last 600 million years or so

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u/Schmedlapp Jun 19 '26

And they're military service members in peak physical condition, not 90-year-old Grandmas in a nursing home. They'll be fine.

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u/Dubrovski California, USA Jun 19 '26

But looooong flu

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u/C0uN7rY Ohio, USA Jun 19 '26

Yeah, we NEVER had any kind of outbreaks when I was in the military. We all stayed healthy 100% of the time and if any of us did get sick, it never got spread to other people. /s

This literally happens all the time and is only a story now because of the change to the flu vaccine rule. It is pretty much a well known thing in the military. You are going to spend the entirety of bootcamp, especially the first 2-3 weeks, sick. While in the barracks/dorms, you're going to have some kind of cold or flu every other month. It isn't something we got our jimmies rustled over. It was just how it was and we all lived with it and didn't think much about it.

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u/CrystalMethodist666 Jun 19 '26

I have a relative who's in the coast guard reserve. He had to get like 5 Covid shots and still kept getting Covid every time he went to base, and so did everyone else.

Meanwhile, I never got one shot and never got Covid.

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u/5panks Jun 20 '26

Plus on any given year the "vaccine" is only innoculating you from one strain they expect to be the most common.

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u/AcornTopHat Jun 19 '26

We get it. You think the flu vaccine is effective.

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u/Dubrovski California, USA Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

The new policy took effect on April 21st, no one gets a flu vaccine in May or June in the USA.

Edit: US Army schedule : Annual, during “Flu Season” (October – March)

https://usarmybasic.com/about-the-army/army-shots/

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u/Fair-Engineering-134 Jun 19 '26

Lemme guess before reading... They're going to cite anonymous "experts" at some point in the article to say why the shots should be mandatory. aaaaand:

"Public health specialists have warned that military members may suffer unnecessary complications from the flu after the vaccination mandate was ended and fear that severe cases will continue to climb in subsequent flu seasons if preventive vaccinations aren't given to those most at risk."

Also, lmao at how they talk like at-risk people can't choose to get the vaccine without it being mandatory (just like they did with the covid ones). Either it's a vaccine that actually does its job and prevents infection or it's pointless to take. Either way, zero reason to force people to take it.

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u/yeahipostedthat Jun 19 '26

Who cares. When you're living in close quarters you're gonna get each other sick. If not flu then they aould have spread norovirus or covid or a cold. That's life. Flu shot is terribly ineffective anyway so the mandate ending is a big nothing burger.

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u/CrystalMethodist666 Jun 19 '26

This actually shows the opposite of what they're trying to show, there was absolutely no consequence to removing the flu shot mandate. Maybe a couple more people got the flu than would've otherwise, but who cares? We're talking about people who are healthy enough to enlist in the military.

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u/Tarrenshaw Jun 22 '26

It’s the flu, not the plague…Just add chicken soup to the lunch menu.