WH Spox Kirby Defends Discharging Coast Guard Hero over Vax Mandate: ‘The Vaccine Itself Helps Save

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WH Spox Kirby Defends Discharging Coast Guard Hero over Vax Mandate: ‘The Vaccine Itself Helps Save Lives, Too’

Ian Hanchett 4 Oct 202

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby defended Coast Guard Aviation Survival Technician Second Class Zach Loesch being kicked out of the service due to the vaccine mandate after Loesch saved lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian by stating that the vaccine “helps save lives, too.”

Co-host said, [relevant exchange begins around 9:10] “It’s just hard because we talked about this amazing hero who’s in the Coast Guard and he rescued someone who could potentially drown down there in the Fort Myers area, and now he’s getting kicked out…and so, that’s just — it’s so hard as Americans to know that that person wouldn’t be saved if he weren’t working right now. And in 30 to 60 days, he’s going to be kicked out. So, he saved a life, and all of these military men and women have saved so many lives over the course of their training. So, it’s just really disheartening to see that, for religious reasons, when they don’t get a vaccine, they’re going to get kicked out.”

Kirby responded, “The vaccine itself helps save lives, too.”

He added that they don’t want to lose anyone to the vaccine mandate, but it’s a “valid military requirement that helps unit readiness.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/10/04/wh-spox-kirby-defends-discharging-coast-guard-hero-over-vax-mandate-the-vaccine-itself-helps-save-lives-too/

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WH Spox Kirby: Vax Mandate Keeps People from Infecting Their Units, But Even if It Doesn’t, Vax ‘Makes the Symptoms a Lot Less Severe’

Ian Hanchett 4 Oct 2022

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby defended the military’s vaccine mandate by stating that “not having the ability to infect your unit and to make their unit readiness any worse than it is.” And that even if the vaccine “doesn’t prevent you from getting COVID,” like it didn’t with him, “it makes the symptoms a lot less severe. It gets you back on duty.”

Kirby said, [relevant exchange begins around 6:00] “The vaccinations are a valid military requirement. You want your troops to be ready. And part of being ready is being healthy and not being able — not having the ability to infect your unit and to make their unit readiness any worse than it is. Look, I’m talking to you from home here because I’m wrapping up my own battle with COVID here over the last 10 days.”

Co-host Brian Kilmeade then cut in to ask, “We all know that this vaccine does not address any of the variants we’re currently experiencing. So, therefore, there’s minimal positive to getting it now, which is why you guys don’t even talk about it. To invest in our people and train them and then dismiss them for an experimental vaccine is folly when you can’t recruit. Every one of your branches can’t recruit their threshold. Yet, you’re kicking out good men and women. How do you explain that?”

Kirby responded, “Well, look, Brian, first of all, the Navy did make their recruiting goals for enlisted personnel this year. Yes, it’s a tough recruiting environment. We recognize that. But it’s also, you have a requirement to be healthy to be able to serve. And this is a valid military requirement. … And, look, even if it doesn’t prevent you from getting COVID, I’m double boosted, I got it myself here just the last week or so, it makes the symptoms a lot less severe. It gets you back on duty.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/10/04/wh-spox-kirby-vax-mandate-keeps-people-from-infecting-their-units-but-even-if-it-doesnt-vax-makes-the-symptoms-a-lot-less-severe/