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Six Senators and 34 Congressmen (all Democrats) wrote in a letter Wednesday that the Department of Defense should allow HIV positive individuals to enlist in the military. You’ll remember that HIV is a blood\/sexually transmitted disease for which there is no cure. Pharmaceutical advances in the last 30 years mean that there are now effective treatments for the virus. It can still be a deadly virus, and the treatments require constant medical attention.<\/p>\n
There are many conditions that a person can have that will categorically preclude any military service. Asthma and diabetes are but two examples. Like HIV, both are easily treated with modern medicine, but require such medication and constant medical attention. Like HIV, someone with either condition cannot enlist, because it’s very reasonable to expect our recruits to be healthy and ready to deploy worldwide. Once there, they may be expected to operate in austere conditions for extended periods of time, possibly without effective supply lines.<\/p>\n
Unlike HIV, neither asthma nor diabetes are readily transmissible when bullets start flying and blood starts being spilled. Which is why HIV and other incurable bloodborne diseases aren’t accepted in new recruits. It just makes sense, right? Well, we live in clown world.<\/p>\n
Notably, some of the Senators who signed onto this were vociferously in favor of DoD’s mandating an experimental vaccine for COVID on the troops. In favor of discharging those who refused. Healthy, in-service individuals who did not want to take a vaccine with absolutely no long-term studies. Contrast that with HIV, which has decades of study surrounding it.<\/p>\n
Here’s Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s quote on the topic of COVID vaccines in the military;<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are already 17 vaccines that are mandatory for all servicemembers,\u201d said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who chairs the Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee. \u201cThis is a military readiness issue \u2014 the COVID vaccine will keep our troops healthier, safer, and ready to fight when called upon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Interesting that she doesn’t see a problem with actually sick people with a deadly, incurable disease in the military, but she does with those who just don’t want the COVID vax.<\/p>\n