Secretary of Defense Says Mid-September COVID Shots Will Be Mandatory for U.S. Troops

It looks like U.S. service members better get ready to roll up their sleeves or find something else to do as a profession:

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks at a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington on July 21, 2021. Austin has said he is working expeditiously to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for military personnel and is expected to ask Biden to waive a federal law that requires individuals be given a choice if the vaccine is not fully licensed. (Kevin Wolf/AP)

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday said he will seek President Joe Biden’s permission by mid-September to require all troops receive the coronavirus vaccine regardless of whether the shots obtain full federal approval. 

“I want you to know that I will seek the president’s approval to make the vaccines mandatory no later than mid-September, or immediately upon the U.S. Food and Drug [Administration] licensure, whichever comes first,” Austin wrote in his message. “Public reporting suggests the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine could achieve full FDA licensure early next month.” 

Biden said last week during a news conference that he expects the FDA will approve the vaccines by the early fall.

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Flyingsword
Flyingsword
3 years ago

Why, the do fuck all. 90% of those catching china virus now in USFK are fully vaccinated. USFK had 0 deaths and no hospital crowding before the vaccine so what’s difference.

setnaffa
setnaffa
3 years ago

Masks and vaccines a go go in Japan, right? And yet:

https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1425153584094609413

rocket man
rocket man
3 years ago

Couldn’t go to the vet center to see my PTSD counselor for the last couple of months because I didn’t get the jab. Can’t go to the PTSD group either because I didn’t get the jab, but I can go to the VA to get services. The vet centers are run by the VA. Does this make any sense? This kind of shows that nobody knows what is really going on, but they want to keep the fear in everyone.

setnaffa
setnaffa
3 years ago

Rocket man, if you need to talk, let us know. I don’t have counselor training; but I can bring potato salad or walnut pie… And apart from telling bad medical jokes (mostly aimed at myself), I can listen…

setnaffa
setnaffa
3 years ago

The Flying Fish Sailors wrote a song you might like: “Flupandemic”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T41ASGEQZA

rocket man
rocket man
3 years ago

Thanks, Setnaffa. Just a bunch of things that happened while I was in Korea. Kept it all in for 40 some years and when I retired the memories and trauma finally hit me. Then I had a 7 year fight with the VA (no records for our unit). Working it out with the help of my family and the support of the other guys in the group.

Mcgeehee
Mcgeehee
3 years ago

His mouth agape.

Sweat begins to bead above his quivering lip.

He leans delicately toward the microphone.

And whispers …

“My nipples ache for the warmth of your mouth”

I have it on tape.

setnaffa
setnaffa
3 years ago

Wait. What? Mcgeehee, are you talking about Leon, Paintchip, or Tencent?

liz
liz
3 years ago

https://twitter.com/AirBo55/status/1425762009845432329?s=20

“Airline Pilot, (me), Went for an covid antibody blood test, so I could see if I could skip the Syringe. results come back, Doctor informs me, in Queensland, it’s now illegal for him to tell me what my results are. Heard another doctor Refusing to administer the test. “

Unbelievable. This is our future. Might be our present, for all I know.
Even if you had covid and natural immunity is far more protective, you can’t avoid the jab. Pfizer has written it into their balance sheets.

setnaffa
setnaffa
3 years ago

I can’t get the jab per one of my cancer doctors.

Don’t worry. I saw all three versions of that movie. The first was the best of the three.

1 – The Last Man on Earth (Vincent Price)
2 – The Omega Man (Charlton Heston)
3 – I Am Legend (Will Smith)

I’ll make sure to leave the lights on by the zombie zapper…

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