American service members will no longer be required to get a yearly flu shot under a new Defense Department policy described by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as an effort to “restore freedom and strength to our joint force.”
In a video posted on X, the Pentagon boss cited the Biden administration’s Covid-19 policies as the impetus for ditching the unrelated but mandatory influenza inoculation, accusing his predecessors of having “waged an unrelenting war on our warriors on many fronts, including when it came to denying them simple medical autonomy and the freedom to express their religious convictions.”
Calling the Covid-19 vaccine mandate part of an “era of betrayal” that was now “over,” Hegseth said the Pentagon was discarding “absurd, overreaching mandates that only weaken our war fighting capabilities,” such as “the universal flu vaccine and the mandate behind it.”
Future Tweet: “This is the US Government. We were planning to murder some civilians under the guise of peace or drugs or oil, or whatever, but all our WARFIGHTERS have told us they ‘can’t come in today’ because they’re ‘sick’. When we find out how the Communist Marxist Anarchist Socialist Domestic Terrorist Democrats and the Pope managed to coordinate this attack on our WARFIGHTERS, rest assured, we’ll be back to doing extrajudicial WARFIGHTERS shit ASAP. Thank you for your attention to this matter”.