[Arodex]

Absolutely none of this should have happened. None.

The 1918 "Spanish flu" was cultivated in the trenches and spread through military camps and demobilization.

Hesgeth should be removed from his position ASAP.

Edit:

>Around 60% of previously unvaccinated trainees at Lackland initially declined the flu shot during the vaccine requirement’s lapse, according to the defense official.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/24/politics/flu-shot-outbrea...

Forget about Hesgeth. The USA is completely effed up.

[egl2020]

Origins of the 1918 flu are unclear, but there is evidence that it started in Haskell County, Kansas, and spread to Camp Funston, Kansas. As a consequence, many of the trainees became non-functional.

[ourmandave]

Meanwhile, down the street, you've got RFK and POTUS making measles and polio great again.

While also lying about taking Tylenol during pregnancy causing autism. They've done more studies since that misinformation to prove once again there's no connection.

RFK should be removed along with the POTUS who put him there.

[greenavocado]

Back in 2010 the situation was already extremely grim. Yes, they did test for tuberculosis upon intake and took blood samples for many hepatitis variants and possible a few other things. However, they let severe respiratory viruses run through everyone like wildfire for weeks without the slightest effort to prevent disease. They purposely let people get extremely cold and wet and didn't give a damn if people got sick. This is NOT new.

[kstrauser]

We were all sick as dogs for the first weeks of boot camp with Ricky (that is “recruit”) Flu. Didn’t matter; still did thousand of pushups and ran miles with severe sleep deprivation.

The (tear) gas chamber was a blessing in disguise, because it caused everyone to expel every dram of mucus that’d been stuck in our lungs. It was the first time I could breathe freely through my nose in a month.