More than 200 Marines have been discharged for not taking the Coronavirus vaccine...

 

Marines during the evacuation of Kabul. Fox News/DOD. 

206 Marines have been discharged from the service for not taking the Coronavirus vaccines. Fox News. The military gave members until December 15th to take one of the three vaccines. 95% of Marines have been vaccinated. Several Marines commented that they felt the order was unconstitutional and considered it to be a "political purge". Very few Marines got exemptions for religious objections, as the vaccines were developed using fetal cell lines obtained from abortions. 

My Comment:

This has to be one of the dumbest military actions the US government has ever done. Purging up to 5% of the Marine Corps and similar numbers of the other branches of the military is hugely stupid even during peacetime. Given the high tensions with Russia and China we could very well need those 5% of the Marine Corps. 

And it is for very little reason now. The average Marine had very little to fear from the Coronavirus at all. Most Marines are young and in good physical shape so only the extremely unlucky would have any chance of dying from the virus. The government had little interest in vaccinating these people given the low risk. 

And that was before it was proven that the vaccines were not what they were promised. We hear everyday about how the Omicron variant is largely unaffected by the vaccines and may even effect vaccinated people worse. From what I understand there is little difference between the vaccinated and unvaccinated with Omicron, though that is not true with other Coronavirus variants, like Delta. 

I do agree that this seems like a major political purge. I think this has almost nothing to do with the virus and everything with purging people who might question other unethical orders. Forcing people to take a vaccine that doesn't have much effect against a virus is a good litmus test as what people will accept. The people that question that are going to be gone so if the military wants to order them to, for example, shoot on US civilians there will be fewer people object to it. 

I do hope that when the Republicans take back control that they reverse this order and bring as many of these Marines back as will be willing to do so. These Marines deserve better than what they got and it's disgusting that they are having their careers destroyed for no real reason. 

What is really stupid is that the pandemic is in its death throes. Everyone is going to get Omicron and once they do the virus will burn itself out rather quickly. I am thinking that in a couple of months the pandemic will be pretty much over. The next couple of months might be a bit rough, after all everyone getting a bad cold/weak flu at the same time could cause some problems. But soon it will be over.