Lloyd Austin Proceeding Illegally in Military Vaccine Mandate

From Benjamin Braddock at American Greatness:

On August 24, Affirmative Action Hire and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a memo to senior Pentagon leadership announcing that he was implementing a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for all military service members. The day before, the FDA had issued full authorization to Pfizer for their Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine product (the nomenclature of which is meant to be a mashup of the words “COVID”, “mRNA”, and “community”).

In the memo, Secretary Austin issued a directive and a promise, that “Mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 will only use COVID-19 vaccines that receive full licensure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in accordance with FDA-approved labeling and guidance.” The problem with this is that the Comirnaty vaccine product that was approved by the FDA is not available anywhere in the Military Health System. It is not even in production, according to the military’s TRICARE healthcare providers. If a soldier goes to a military hospital or a private provider to receive an approved Pfizer COVID vaccine, he will be administered the unapproved Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which is a vaccine that is not approved but has been administered under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).

According to the formulation comparison sheet, the Comirnaty vaccine product has a very different formulation than the Pfizer BioNTech product. Also there is a LEGAL difference between Pfizer’s BioNTech and Comirnaty products that is even more profound. According to the FDA’s own vaccine fact sheet for the two Pfizer vaccines, “The products are legally distinct . . .”. That legal distinction may mean that any service member who is coerced into taking the vaccine and suffers adverse effects—which is already happening, with case rates of vaccine-induced myocarditis soaring among service members—will have no legal recourse because the vaccine they took was only given Emergency Use Authorization, not full approval, which means that there is no legal liability whatsoever for Pfizer if and when vaccine injury occurs.

The Department of Defense is telling service members that they are receiving an approved vaccine. That is false on its face and violates service members’ rights to be able to provide or decline to provide informed consent.

Requests for exemptions, numbering in the 100's of thousands are being rejected. There is no case-by-case consideration given even to those servicemen objecting on Religious grounds which is required by statute. 

Furthermore, the services are actively threatening and retaliating against service members who are requesting religious accommodations, purely on the basis of them exercising their Constitutional and statutory rights.    

What the Department of Defense is doing is discriminatory, illegal, and reckless;  It's really a bait and switch which would be typical for the illegitimate "Biden Administration."(or whoever is pulling the strings).