I feel like it should be a bigger controversy that the US SecDef doesn’t think germs are real than the fact he doesn’t think national security/security clearance is real. But that is because I know that the #1 killer of military service members - far and away - has always been infectious diseases. - ThreadSky

ryanmarino.bsky.social • 3 days ago

I feel like it should be a bigger controversy that the US SecDef doesn’t think germs are real than the fact he doesn’t think national security/security clearance is real. But that is because I know that the #1 killer of military service members - far and away - has always been infectious diseases.

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clairezagorski.bsky.social•3 days ago

This has been true for as long as we’ve recorded military history!

numberjohnny5.bsky.social•3 days ago

Send that fucker some Anthrax and see how fast he converts.

deaddropholiday.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'd love to know what the mortality figures are for infectious diseases versus those as a consequence of exposure to toxic and hazardous substances.

patriciaabm.bsky.social•3 days ago

My uncle got malaria while serving in the US Army.

grannyca.bsky.social•3 days ago

My dad, along with a lot of other sailors, got TB during WW2 on Navy ships.

bobcatarts.bsky.social•3 days ago

Looks like witchcraft is back on the menu, boys!

bigheadtunes.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hadn't heard this one. Sad that I'm really not shocked. In a world of dim bulbs, he's one with a broken filament.

dholladay.bsky.social•3 days ago

Freedom of choice.

bobcatarts.bsky.social•3 days ago

I choose to be a disease vector!
::eagle screech::

fernmonkey.bsky.social•3 days ago

I thought WW2 was the one where tobacco took the lead due to sulfa drugs and penicillin on one side and massive distribution of cigarettes on the other side. But that's not to downplay infectious disease.

rickterscale.bsky.social•3 days ago

The Nazi secdef what now?!?

pindancer.bsky.social•3 days ago

When will people accept, that’s the point.

liberals4liberty.bsky.social•3 days ago

Project 2025 operationalized by Musk Trump has obliterated our
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jettdash.bsky.social•3 days ago

gross! you know he doesn't wash his hand after using the bathroom, and seeing as how he f@cks anything that moves, you know he has a dirty d!ck🤮

knancy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh, wait, he's the idiot who doesn't wash his hands, huh? I'd forgotten about that gross Fox tidbit.

blueinthesouth.bsky.social•3 days ago

🤢

chinakat.bsky.social•3 days ago

If I recall correctly, the 1918 Flu contributed to the end of WWI and a crap ton of Confederate soldiers (see Charles Hamilton, GWTW) died of dysentery or pneumonia before ever making it to a battle field.

themerckxproject.bsky.social•3 days ago

I looked up the stats from the Civil War when he first started yapping about not vaxxing troops, and yeah....

kaybell27.bsky.social•3 days ago

He reflects the Trump administrations rejection of the existing knowledge of health and diseases and corresponding modern scientific advances in health care. The administration is harming the health of US citizens through their neglect and unfortunately this includes military service members.

bradbillmaier.bsky.social•3 days ago

Careful that's how you wind up falling out of a window accidentally or shipped to a gulag in El Salvador

tom.medsky.social•3 days ago

The only colleges that require meningococcal group B vaccination is the service academies.

For now.

beu4ic.bsky.social•3 days ago

Unless things have changed since I was an immunization RN in 2022, I don’t believe this is accurate…last I knew, many schools required the MenB vaccine if students were going to live in on-campus housing.

ramblingandpie.bsky.social•3 days ago

While it's been a few years since I've been a student.. we had to submit either proof of vaccination OR a waiver saying that we understood the risks and were choosing not to get vaccinated. We didn't need a reason to decline.

beu4ic.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you for sharing this! Yes, I had to fill out and sign off on these types of forms for some colleges/universities👍🏼. I suspect, much has changed since 2022 due to the pushback from Covid vaccines.

tom.medsky.social•3 days ago

That would be cool. I just know I fill out the forms a lot and don't see many that require it.

beu4ic.bsky.social•3 days ago

This looks to be updated and from a reliable source.

https://meningitisprevention.org/menbtracker

tom.medsky.social•3 days ago

Thanks.

visage66.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm always at the low levels of general education in the US. What are they learning in schools? Evidently not curiosity.

bobcatarts.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm not sure curiosity can be taught. It can be encouraged, fostered in those that have it, but not sure it can be taught.

blueinthesouth.bsky.social•3 days ago

Since I was in high school, republicans have been cutting funding and eliminating programs. They got what they wanted: intentionally ignorant voters they can manipulate with outrageous, easily disproven lies.

j-k-c.bsky.social•3 days ago

Supprised the Russians haven't briefed him about the TB outbreak that is plaguing them in Ukraine and how the North Korean strain has made things even worse

prasad.bsky.social•3 days ago

yes but it's exponentially worse for the US SecHHS to be a germ theory denier, given his portfolio

rockmn.bsky.social•3 days ago

From my reading of history I always thought that poor command leadership killed the most soldiers.

clintonharrisgal.bsky.social•3 days ago

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