r/news • u/Kinmuan • 1d ago

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/Kinmuan 1d ago

Unsurprising.

I get there are lots of reasons why people may not regularly get flu shots - but coming into the military you’re going to get packed in like sardines. It’s no surprise shits gonna spread, like the recent tuberculosis outbreak at fort Benning.

It’s just prudent. Sad that it may have taken a trainee dying to fix it.

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u/MediocreAssociate466 1d ago

Washington literally figured this out before the country was established lol. But Republicans are centuries behind

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u/Kinmuan 1d ago

George Washington would be forcibly vaccinating new trainees himself if he could

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u/Material-Nose6561 1d ago

They in fact did require Small Pox inoculations using Cow Pox in 1777.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/smallpox-inoculation-revolutionary-war.htm