Whiskey Pete discovers viruses do not respect vaccine freedom speeches

According to Boing Boing, a flu outbreak sickened hundreds of recruits at Lackland Air Force Base, a reminder that viruses don't negotiate with policy speeches. Pete Hegseth, who has opposed vaccine mandates, oversees a military branch where basic training creates ideal conditions for respiratory illness. Recruits sleep, train, and shower in close quarters for weeks while exhausted. The outbreak illustrates a basic military health reality: crowded, stressful environments have always been incubators for respiratory disease, and rhetoric about individual liberty doesn't change viral biology.

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