FR24News.com – April 10, 2021
About 75,500 Marines received vaccines as of Thursday, including fully vaccinated and partially vaccinated service men and women. About 48,000 Marines chose not to receive vaccines, for a decline rate of 38.9%.
CNN has contacted other services to find out the pass and fail rates.
The corresponding acceptance rate for vaccinations among Marines – 61.1% – is not far from the military estimate of two-thirds, or around 66%.
An additional 102,000 Marines have yet to receive the vaccines. The total number of Marines includes active duty, reserves and the Marines augmented by individual mobilization.
The declination rate at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, one of the main Marine Corps bases, was much higher, at 57%, according to another dataset provided to CNN. Of the 26,400 Marines who were vaccinated, 15,100 chose not to receive them, a number that includes both the II Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Installation East – Camp Lejeune. An additional 11,500 active-duty Marines are expected to be offered the vaccines.
“We fully understand that the widespread acceptance of the Covid-19 vaccine provides us with the best means to beat the pandemic. The key to fighting the pandemic is to build confidence in vaccines, ”Marine Corps spokeswoman Col. Kelly Frushour told CNN in a statement.
Frushour said there are a number of potential reasons a sailor may choose not to receive a vaccine, including allowing others to receive it first, waiting for it to become mandatory, taking it through d other channels or be allergic to the vaccine.
“Service members who refuse one day can change their mind and get vaccinated the next time the opportunity arises,” she said.
CNN reported last month that the vaccination rejection rate among service members could be close to 50%, a number significantly higher than the 33% figure defense officials have used publicly.
The military cannot make vaccines mandatory now because they only have emergency use clearances from the Food and Drug Administration, which means service members who are required to receive a series of other vaccinations have the option of refusing vaccines to protect themselves against Covid-19.
Officials say most of the hesitation about vaccines stems from concerns about the speed at which vaccines have been developed and fears about long-term effects.
The Department of Defense has approximately 2.2 million military personnel operating around the world. For every 10 percentage point drop in the acceptance rate, that’s 220,000 people who choose not to receive vaccines, a number potentially large enough to affect the readiness of forces. The military experienced a handful of high-profile Covid outbreaks last year, including one aboard an aircraft carrier deployed in the Pacific.
Last month, a group of Democratic lawmakers called on President Joe Biden to issue a “waiver of informed consent” to make vaccination against Covid-19 mandatory for all members of the U.S. military service, writing in a letter that “disinformation and vaccine skepticism ”prompt service members not to be vaccinated.
It’s not going to be easy, compelling a serviceman or woman to enforce an injection on people from their own country when they refuse to take it themselves. I doubt many who refuse it will force it on others.
Not sure how this can be when they can be “ordered” to take the vaccine. In the 80’s at a navy clinic we were all ordered to get the flu vaccine. Almost all the navy doctors didn’t but had the corpsman falsify the medical records. Working in the clinic I asked the doctors why they were not getting the vaccine and they said many of those military that got the vaccine also became sick with the flu.
“We fully understand that the widespread acceptance of the Covid-19 vaccine provides us with the best means to beat the pandemic,” stated Marine Corps spokeswoman Col. Kelly Frushour. Col. Frushour is obviously a f***ing imbecile of epic stupidity and ignorance, and also obviously an affirmative action promotion. The first thing that retard needs to understand is the toxic death sludge being peddled is NOT a vaccine. Col Dumbf**k also needs to understand the psychopaths and pathological liars touting that sludge have admitted it doesn’t stop “the vaccinated” from spreading anything nor protect them from acquiring any illness whatsoever.
Oh yeah, and Col. Dumbf**k should also understand there has been no bloody “pandemic” except for that of trauma-based conditioning and overt tyranny. It was a typicla cold and flu season touted to be the second coming of the Black Plague…and a monstrous crime against humanity, but I suppose the Marines are accustomed to participating in crimes against humanity now.
Col. Kelly Frushour also vomited out this doozy, “The key to fighting the pandemic is to build confidence in vaccines,” What?!? A psychological state of mind, being ignorance and false confidence in this case, in a wildly reckless and dangerous toxic substance is “the key” to fighting a type of virus that has been around since the dawn of mankind and is mild and fully recoverable in over 99% of cases? F**K YOU, Colonel A**hole.
Pathological liar and war criminal (if you don’t know by now we’re at war then I don’t know what to tell you) Kelly Frushour should be dragged around the Washington Mall by her ankles, stripped naked, vigorously horse-whipped, rolled in pig excrement and salt, and nailed to a tree.
The problem with this story is nothing is voluntary in the military – especially with the jarheads, and I sincerely doubt any Marine was given a choice. Refusal would mean courts martial.