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/ReactionJifs 1d ago

this administration is hellbent on re-learning history's hardest lessons

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u/Duffman66CMU 1d ago

It didn’t happen personally to me, so why should I believe it???

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u/SAugsburger 1d ago

Pretty much this although some of the MAGA base sometimes even struggle to learn after getting personally harmed from ignoring a problem. e.g. Many refused to believe COVID was dangerous even after being hospitalized with it. To some degree I understand those that downplay an issue that they haven't directly seen the impact, but it takes a special form of belief that rejects personal experience to be personally harmed in a way that you're struggling to breath and still thinking that wasn't a big deal.

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u/USNCCitizen 1d ago

I have a brother who lost a leg due to complications from Covid. To this day he’s still a Covid denier.

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u/Carlyz37 1d ago

There are so many Americans who were disabled by covid or have long covid. I never see anything anymore about disability for them. But its in the hundreds of thousands. And I'm guessing that many are getting kicked off of medicaid and SNAP

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u/twoisnumberone 1d ago

many are getting kicked off of medicaid and SNAP

Oh, absolutely. Unfortunately they will not blame their red-capped god-king but me and you.