Brett Bellmore
New member
Couldn't find the Anthrax thread part two, so here's my contribution:
First, the son of one of my co-workers has refused the vacination, and been dishonorably discharged. Want to know why he refused it? BECAUSE HE WAS AT THE END OF HIS ENLISTMENT, AND DIDN'T SEE THE POINT IN STARTING A SERIES OF VACINATIONS HE'D NEVER FINISH! Really, I wonder how many enlisted men have balked at the shot for just this simple reason; They're a few weeks from leaving the military, and the whole series of shots takes months; Why start something you're not going to finish, why endure any risk at all for essentially zero benefit? I bet the military could cut off a lot of the contraversy by simply exempting people whose enlistment will end before they'd finish the series of injections.
Second: Why isn't the vacine available to civilians, you and me? Well, remember that the terrorist threat this administration is REALLY worried about isn't Islamic extremists, or the Red Brigade. They're afraid of you and me! Clearly anyone who means to use Anthrax as a terrorist weapon has to be vacinated against it; By denying the vacinine to American civilians, they effectively prevent Americans from using it as a weapon in domestic terrorism. At least, that's how I see their reasoning.
Then again, we're talking about the government; Who says there's any actual reasoning involved? As likely an explaination is that the default attitude for the people who run our government is that everything which isn't manditory should be prohibited.
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Sic semper tyranus!
First, the son of one of my co-workers has refused the vacination, and been dishonorably discharged. Want to know why he refused it? BECAUSE HE WAS AT THE END OF HIS ENLISTMENT, AND DIDN'T SEE THE POINT IN STARTING A SERIES OF VACINATIONS HE'D NEVER FINISH! Really, I wonder how many enlisted men have balked at the shot for just this simple reason; They're a few weeks from leaving the military, and the whole series of shots takes months; Why start something you're not going to finish, why endure any risk at all for essentially zero benefit? I bet the military could cut off a lot of the contraversy by simply exempting people whose enlistment will end before they'd finish the series of injections.
Second: Why isn't the vacine available to civilians, you and me? Well, remember that the terrorist threat this administration is REALLY worried about isn't Islamic extremists, or the Red Brigade. They're afraid of you and me! Clearly anyone who means to use Anthrax as a terrorist weapon has to be vacinated against it; By denying the vacinine to American civilians, they effectively prevent Americans from using it as a weapon in domestic terrorism. At least, that's how I see their reasoning.
Then again, we're talking about the government; Who says there's any actual reasoning involved? As likely an explaination is that the default attitude for the people who run our government is that everything which isn't manditory should be prohibited.
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Sic semper tyranus!