So, everyone in the Army who turns down the jab or requests a Religious Accommodation like I have has to be counseled. "Developmental Counseling" DA Form 4856. Counseling is fairly standard. Junior Soldiers get counseled every month, NCOs every quarter.
But this? This counseling is nothing but the gummint talking points laid out on paper. "The Covid-19 vaccine will SAVE LIVES and blah blah blah." I got pissed off just reading it. So I wrote a two-page response:
I have requested a Religious
Accommodation Request for theological reasons.
I also believe that there are plenty of sound, logical reasons to avoid
getting any of the Covid-19 vaccinations currently available in the USA, and I
will address those issues below. Since
none of the arguments laid out below have their basis in theology, I opted to
leave them out of my religious request.
However, in the larger scheme of things it is important to acknowledge
not only my religious basis for my request, but also the simple logical
arguments against getting the vaccines, as well as exposing the mis-truths,
half-truths and outright lies being used to push this mandate down on the US
military.
If the purpose of the Covid-19
vaccines is to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus, then by any and all
measures these vaccines have failed.
These vaccines do not prevent infection, nor do they prevent
transmission. Joe Biden, in an incoherent
babbling speech, claimed that they needed to “protect the vaccinated against
the un-vaccinated”. This is not how
actual vaccination works in the real world.
If the vaccine works, then the vaccinated don’t need protecting from the
unvaccinated. I am in no danger of
infection from people with polio, or typhoid, or tetanus, or hepatitis, because
I have been vaccinated against those diseases by actual, working vaccines that
prevent the spread of infection. It is
clear that the same cannot be said for any of the Covid-19 vaccines, and any
claim that these vaccines will prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus is, at
this point, a bald-faced lie. I do not appreciate someone lying to me, and I am
under no obligation to join the delusional liars in their fantasy land of
unicorn rainbow farts and make-believe protection.
The other laughable claim being
made by the same liars who say this vaccine is effective is that it is
“safe”. This is another bold-faced lie
by people who don’t have the faintest idea of whether or not this vaccine is
safe. There is no data. There have been no long-term studies, there
have been no long-term clinical trials. Any
tests done on the Covid-19 vaccines was rushed and short term, with control
groups being effectively destroyed after the rushed, shoddy and short-term
trials. The best statement that could be
made regarding the Covid-19 vaccine long-term safety is “We don’t know”. But that would require honesty in our
government officials who are pushing this vaccine, and honesty is the last
attribute that any of them could possess.
A simple search of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System shows not
only thousands of cases of adverse events such as Bell’s Palsy, paralysis,
Guillen-Barre Syndrome and other adverse health effects, but there are
thousands of deaths reported due to the Covid-19 vaccines. Are these adverse events rare? As a percentage of the people who got
vaccinated, yes. But the fatality rate
for Covid-19, especially among military members, is also rare. If a rare chance of dying from a virus is
enough to force everyone to get a vaccine, what then is the response to the
adverse side effects? A yawn,
apparently, because asking senior military leaders to actually care about the
service members they command would just be asking far too much in today’s
military. At this point there are more
active duty service members who have developed myocarditis as a result of the
Covid-19 vaccination than service members who have died of Covid-19. Given that someone who had acute myocarditis
can expect other long-term heart failure issues to crop up in later years, this
country has given more service members heart failure via the vaccines than have
died of the Covid-19 virus. The
government halted the use of the Johnson and Johnson vaccines over seven
incidents of blood clotting, but myocarditis, pericarditis, death and other
issues apparently don’t matter.
The claim that the vaccines that I
have been ordered to take have been approved by the FDA is yet another
bold-faced lie by the liars who have already proven that cannot be
trusted. The vaccine that the FDA approved
is the Comirnaty vaccine, authorized for use in the European Union. The Pfizer vaccine used in the USA is not the
Comirnaty vaccine. The claim being made
by the FDA is that it is a “legally distinct, but chemically identical”
vaccine. If it’s chemically identical,
then why did they not simply approve the vaccine that Pfizer already has? If there is no difference between the two,
why have it remain “legally distinct”?
It is yet another area of uncertainty, brought by the people who have
proven that they possess neither the slightest shred of honesty or integrity.
The
claim that these vaccines are effective is a lie. The claims that these vaccines are safe is
another lie. And the claims that the
Pfizer vaccine available in the USA was approved by the FDA is yet another
lie. I am sick and tired of being lie
to, and I am absolutely sick to my stomach to see these vaccines being pushed
despite the fact that they do not work in their proclaimed task of stopping the
spread of the Covid-19 virus. I am
appalled that the military is ignoring the risks associated with these vaccines
and I am outraged that the senior military leaders are demanding that I throw
away my morals and beliefs in order to maintain my military service. It is a disgusting display of cowardice and
hypocrisy that the people ordering these vaccinations are demanding that all
the risk being taken is laid upon the people who are being ordered to get the
shots. There is no risk or responsibility
laid on the senior military leaders, government officials, or vaccine
manufacturers. All of those entities
have been given protection and immunity from the results of their actions. Only the service member being ordered to get
the shot takes the risk. This abhorrent situation
goes against every example of leadership that I was ever taught in my 25 year
Army career. This is not just a failure
of leadership, this is a crumbling of the moral foundations that military
leadership requires, and exposes the rot and corruption that has thoroughly permeated
the upper echelons of military leadership.
There may come a day when not compromising on your morals or integrity
may once again be important to the US Army, but that day will not come so long
as the current senior leadership is in charge, as that leadership does not
possess any honesty or integrity and wouldn’t even know what those values look
like.
In
conclusion, I have little hope of my Religious Accommodation request being
granted, because it is becoming clear that this mandate has everything to do
with politics and pushing a narrative, and nothing to do with actual safety,
health or prevention of disease. But if
(when) that denial comes down, I will exit my military service with my head
held high, secure in the knowledge that I have not compromised my morals or
integrity. Maybe one day the Army will
want people with integrity again.
I wonder how that will be received if it ever makes it up out of my unit. It's me just screaming at the abyss, but sometimes you just have to do that for your mental health.
