{"id":110615,"date":"2021-02-18T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T16:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=110615"},"modified":"2021-02-18T11:12:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T16:12:22","slug":"congress-apparently-shocked-the-troops-dont-trust-random-hastily-approved-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=110615","title":{"rendered":"Congress apparently shocked the troops don&#8217;t trust random, hastily approved vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-103439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid1-500x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid1-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems that Congressmen have no understanding of the history of the US government experimenting on the troops when it comes to vaccines. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/02\/17\/about-a-third-of-troops-have-turned-down-the-covid-19-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Military Times reports<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Defense Department has been reluctant to publicly announce how many troops have received a COVID-19 vaccination and how many have refused to get it, but senior Pentagon officials came prepared for questions to a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Of about 916,000 doses administered to DoD personnel, 359,000 have received at least one dose, and 147,000 are fully vaccinated, according to Bob Salesses, who is performing the duties of assistant defense secretary for homeland defense and global security.<\/p>\n<p>About a third of those offered the vaccine have turned it down, according to Maj. Gen. Jeff Taliaferro, the Joint Staff\u2019s vice director for operations.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s worrying to lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith new variants popping up across the globe, I\u2019m not sure we can wait two years,\u201d for full Food and Drug Administration approval, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., said. \u201cIt\u2019s critical for our national security that every service member, as well as DoD civilian personnel and contractors, receive vaccines as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More at the source. Thanks to Jeff LPH 3 for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Congressmen have no understanding of the history of the US government experimenting on &hellip; <a title=\"Congress apparently shocked the troops don&#8217;t trust random, hastily approved vaccines\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=110615\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congress apparently shocked the troops don&#8217;t trust random, hastily approved vaccines<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,213,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110616,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110615\/revisions\/110616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}