• Radicalized@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Allow me to elaborate.

      In the military we have something called “unlimited liability”. It’s the main thing that separates us from civilians, and it ensures that the government can actually get things done with its military. It means we can be ordered into dangerous situations — situations which could cause almost certain death, and we have to follow those orders. If command wants you to be vaccinated against a certain disease because they believe you’re a liability if you don’t, you either get that vaccine or you reconsider your position in the military.

      I also want to point out that one of the first things you do at boot camp is get a metric fuck ton of mandatory vaccines. If you opt to not receive them, well, bye-bye; have fun on the bus ride home. Anyone who is just now kicking up a fuss about mandatory vaccines is doing so entirely for political reasons.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        one of the first things you do at boot camp is get a metric fuck ton of mandatory vaccines.

        Heh. Can confirm: fun times. Sometimes the side effects can make for a super loopy weekend – about 1/3 of my plt was suffering from SOMETHING that was in the cocktail/list in the early '90s.

        Strange: we trusted our CoC had the best knowledge of what’s in our future and valued us enough to not kill us, so I don’t remember a lot of reluctance over it.

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    1 year ago

    Lol.

    plus acknowledgement that CAF members had their rights violated

    What?

    “The brief snippets of (plaintiffs’) stories are hard to read, but with the approximately 150,000 pages of evidence we have the stories get worse and the abuse of power in the chain of command is very apparent,” she said.

    I’m not entirely sure where they pull the $1mil per plaintiff from either. There’s no mention of damages (ie something that would warrant it), though it is just a news article and not the court docs.

    The article goes into more detail, but its wild what they’re pushing for. I can’t imagine they’ll be successful with the court case, especially with the lawyer using phrases like

    Christensen said she is proud of the plaintiffs in her case, describing them as the “tip of the spear” in making both the Armed Forces and Canadian government accountable for the “past three years of tyranny” in Canada’s military command.