Numerous service members were harmed by a vaccine they didn't need; many more had their careers cut short, were dishonorably discharged, court martialed, and even imprisoned for their refusal to get the shot. Here's a good retrospective: https://t.co/dMmJAJt9d1
7/x

— Melquíades (@WhyWherever) July 10, 2021

Even allowing for the absurdist definition of a "COVID fatality" (death for whatever reason within 28 days of a positive RT-PCR test run to 40+ cycles), for military personnel, COVID has a better than 99.987% survival rate.
9/x

— Melquíades (@WhyWherever) July 10, 2021

We've halted training, destroyed unit cohesion and morale, strapped worthless pieces of cloth over everyone's faces for the last year, and spectacularly destroyed our warfighting readiness in the name of COVID, but the pathogen itself is meaningless.
12/x

— Melquíades (@WhyWherever) July 10, 2021

Over 1,000 service members were killed on motorcycles between 1999 and 2012, yet we still permit their use. Here are the Army data: https://t.co/wldSa3GBPg
15/x

— Melquíades (@WhyWherever) July 10, 2021

There's a reason drug trials always contain a control group, yet the political appointees and Flag and General Officers running our military seem perfectly willing to potentially jeopardize 100% of the force in the name of political agreeability.
18/x

— Melquíades (@WhyWherever) July 10, 2021

You'd have to be genuinely convinced of the existential threat posed by this virus to volunteer for an experimental vaccine for which no one - not the pharmaceutical giants nor the government mandating its acceptance - is liable in case things go wrong. That's real faith.
36/x

— Melquíades (@WhyWherever) July 10, 2021