American combat deaths in World War I: 54,000

[hamonwry@mastodon.world]

@petergleick

Is this another form of germ warfare?

Or just the Hegseth/Trump way of showing more disdain for our members of the military?

[michaelgemar@cosocial.ca]

@petergleick It would absurdly easy to deliver aerosolized flu droplets via drone.

[linuxnerd@mastodon.social]

@petergleick These are the political correctness guys!

[franciswashere@mastodon.social]

#usa #Flu_Vaccine #Influenza

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@petergleick Can't wait for the death toll in future wars on the US side to be higher for disease than for KIA 🥲

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@petergleick

Oh, that’s great. I can just imagine the effect of pathogens sweeping through the military and what that does for combat readiness and execution of a war.

#poxamericana

[pomegranate_stew@kind.social]

@petergleick
Oh goody. Flu will run rampant through a couple of the local school districts next year because of this dumbassery. Guess I should buy even more masks.

[patrickoftheg@mastodon.social]

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @petergleick I mean, considering what the American military has been used for for the past 150 years, wouldn't that be a good thing to anyone who values goodness?

"Oh no, the army won't be so efficient in their next Wounded Knee Massacre, or Marine Invasion of Haiti, or their carpet-bombing of Cambodia, or the next time they want to kill half a million Iraqis!"

It's a good thing if they all flu up.

[pomegranate_stew@kind.social]

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @petergleick
Oh no. It’s magical thinking. They’re the best and fittest and because of that can’t catch flu, and even if they do, *they’ll* be fine, so they don’t need a vaccine!

Even if they are fine, how many people who won’t be will they give it to? They don’t care, because those people are *weak*, so they don’t matter to the magical thinkers.

(I’m related to two people who think like this.)

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@petergleick Wow. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!

[podcaststeve@newsie.social]

@petergleick Eejits gonna eejit.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@PatrickoftheG @petergleick

No, it really isn’t. It is a immoral crime to condition military to be bloodthirsty killers without restraint, and it is another immoral crime to condemn them to illness and death.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@pomegranate_stew @petergleick

I read a very different message out of the disregard for vaccinating the troops:

The boots on the ground are disposable

[ninestonesclose@mastodon.social]

@petergleick he’s such a massive wanker

[pomegranate_stew@kind.social]

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @petergleick
That too.

[sloanlance@mastodon.social]

@petergleick
#KegBreath is such an idiot.

[rankinfosolution@mastodon.social]

@petergleick