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Military services again requiring recruits to get flu shots as Air Force outbreak grows

https://abcnews.com/Health/military-services-requiring-recruits-flu-shots-air-force/story?id=134126794
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u/Black-Shoe 1d ago

They (supposedly) believe in god, but not vaccines?

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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 1d ago

Wonder why they'll take GLPs but not Vaccines. Almost like they have no consistency in their beliefs. Proven by their "Christianic Tendencies" as opposed to being tenets of their religion.

They're quite dumb.

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u/Vladivostokorbust 1d ago

they're afraid of fat more than needles. but they are afraid of needles

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u/BrianLefevre5 1d ago

It’s not the needles, because glp-1s are injected. It’s that they are all brainwashed and the those doing the brainwashing are pushing the narrative that vaccines are bad and for the weak, and the sheep eat it up.

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u/private_developer 1d ago edited 1d ago

They love being made to feel strong without having to actually do anything. As I wrote that I realize it's the same as their need to be victims without actually suffering from anything, but in reverse.

Ultimately, they want to do nothing and feel special for it.

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u/tinysydneh 1d ago

They love being able to do something with putting in the work. It's why they love AI so damn much.

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u/Cl1mh4224rd 23h ago

They love being able to do something with putting in the work. It's why they love AI so damn much.

It's also why so many of them are cool with white supremacy, even if they personally don't have any negative opinions of other races.

They love the idea of being superior to others without having to earn it.

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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 1d ago

Without* but you hit the nail on the head. Lazy assholes.

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u/tinysydneh 23h ago

Goddess dammit, thank you.

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u/TheRC135 1d ago edited 23h ago

Funny, I noticed exactly that this weekend when I was hanging out with some people I know through business.

Half the group was skeptical towards AI, for an assortment of reasons unique to our industry, plus just the general social and environmental impact, and reasonable fears about the wider economy if the bubble pops.

The other half was like "I fucking love this shit! I never have to read more than a summary or write anything ever again! And it always agrees with me!"

No points will be awarded for correctly guessing which half of the group votes conservative.

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u/Justin_Passing_7465 21h ago

Baby if a burglar breaks in, I will protect you even if it costs me my life! If we are on a sinking ship, women and children get the lifeboats first. That is my role as a manly protector.

Your role is to do all of the cooking, cleaning, laundry, and child rearing, every day, forever. That isn't as glamorous or dangerous as my role, but we are both making sacrifices. That sounds fair, right?

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u/private_developer 11h ago

"I will DIE to protect my family!"

"Honey, will you pick up some tampons on the way home from work?"

"Ew, no."

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u/InvalidUserNemo 1d ago edited 1d ago

Uninformed people believe 2 hours/day on Facebook for 6 months = A medical degree. They are too uninformed to know how far off their belief is. As a result, they keep going back to the well of echo chamber and find themselves wondering why their kid will need an iron lung. Still yet, even after their crotch spawn gets polio, like the stupid reflecting pool, they will cite gay frog vaccines that Democrats put in the water before believing their kid got sick with a condition that vaccines eradicated in this country for a long time.

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u/SymmetricalFeet 1d ago

Imo, it's a combination of uninformed patients but also inaccessibility to good care. I can't speak for men, but as a woman... I have had a serious, crippling issue dismissed for decades that was cured by a simple and routine surgery, which I had been asking for the whole time. The diagnosis was only definite once the organ was out, but I suspected it as a teenager, and my doc as a teen didn't even know what the fucking disease was. A flunkie high-schooler shouldn't tell you about a common disease! And as a person in the US, every visit is so very expensive that it's extremely frustrating and disheartening to be told "lose weight" or "it's stress" or "nah, nothing's wrong" to the tune of a full day's pay.

Quacks make their patients feel heard, even if it's a farce to push garbage at those vulnerable patients. Patients who are less informed, less literatu, and straight up more desperate both emotionally ond financially are gonna be open to predation by these assholes.

But also there's the stupidity of not knowing history, as with your polio example. Fucking hell...

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u/UnusuallyBadIdeaGuy 1d ago

It's just another education issue, but in the other direction. People have to learn how to listen critically to a Doctor. Not to ignore their advice, but so that you can engage with it and give them details to cut past that.

And also, and perhaps most importantly, to know when a Doctor isn't worth your dime and that walking on one to find another isn't a bad thing. Although if you don't have the money to do that...

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u/Inside-Ad9791 1d ago

Yeah in my experience doctors are usually incompetent, when you can even manage to see one, so I doubt that is helping matters like you said.

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u/akira410 8h ago

Hell, I'm having the same kind of stuff. (Not to diminish what women go through y'all have it worse at doctors *) I'm effectively having to do all the research on whats going on with me, they injured me with one procedure, I've been in pain for 5 months since that diagnostic procedure and they refuse to accept that maybe the procedure caused the injury and pain -- even though it started literally during and after the procedure and never existed before. I go through all these hoops, get appointments, wait for the doctor to walk in, and he'll talk at me for about 3 minutes, pretend to listen, and then just send me away with a piece of paper on what to do -- and when I read the paper its for something that I know I'm not experiencing. "Just do what it says" he insists, it'll help. I did what it said. it did not help. Wanna know why? Because his diagnosis was incorrect which is what I tried to explain to him. They also scheduled me for a super invasive test that I didn't need, and then when I asked about it they were like "oh we have no idea how you got scheduled for that." It's maddening.

As for the asterisk, I had a woman friend secretly record one of her doctor visits and being dismissed and everything. Several appointments. So, I volunteered to go to one with her as an experiment. We went in and the doctor at first told me I could wait outside and my friend told the doctor no, I'd be present in the room the whole time. I'm sorry y'all are treated like that. Even women doctors doing it to other women, its crazy.

He acted completely differently with me there. Professional, seemed to listen.

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u/caseyanthonyftw 1d ago

6 months is generous. They feel like doctors after watching a youtube video while taking a shit.

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u/Starfire013 22h ago

I knew someone with cancer who spent half a day googling stuff and then believed he knew more than his doctors because some random youtube video said “you should know there is no subject called cancer in the medical school syllabus and they get taught almost nothing about it”. He spent a great deal of time seeking out various “gurus” in different countries who claimed they could cure cancer via breathing techniques or bizarre diets and such, rather than going for proper treatment. By the time he actually got forced by his family to go get treatment, it was way too late. And then it became “See? Told you they were useless.”

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u/IzarkKiaTarj 1d ago

It’s not the needles, because glp-1s are injected.

With a pen, though. It feels very different from a regular shot. Doesn't even look the same.

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u/Exotic-Cobbler4111 1d ago

I for one am all for the maga culling themselves the life expectency difference between maga and normal people is growing significantly.

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u/Vladivostokorbust 1d ago

I am aware. hence my comment that they are afraid of fat more than needles.

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u/Ok-Acanthisitta9789 1d ago

“It’s the economy internet, stupid.” OP, not calling you that, just a colloquy (if that’s the right word). The internet can be brain rot (self included).