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Whiskey Pete discovers viruses do not respect vaccine freedom speeches

A certain General George Washington ordered the Continental Army to be mass-inoculated against smallpox in 1777.

Jason Weisberger
Jun 24, 2026
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Pete Hegseth gave the flu virus a stirring lecture about freedom, and the flu virus responded by infecting hundreds of recruits at Lackland Air Force Base.

This was not an unknowable mystery. Basic training is basically a respiratory virus theme park: recruits sleep close together, train close together, shower close together, and spend weeks exhau…

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