(Doug Mainwaring/LifeSiteNews) — In a podcast panel discussion that focused on the sharp uptick in military suicides since the introduction of COVID-19 mandates in the armed services, Colonel Douglas Macgregor said it was because personnel were treated as though they were “quasi criminals” for having declined to take the untested vaccine. [See embedded video, below.]
People were forced to “make an uninformed decision that could have an everlasting effect on their life,” explained former Army test pilot Brandon Budge, and when they opted out of the so-called vaccine, “they were ostracized to the point that they spiraled down to suicide.”
Budge, a father of seven who served as an air mission commander in Afghanistan, left the Army after over 21 years of service because his refusal of the COVID-19 vaccine halted his path to future promotions.
People who didn’t comply “were treated like lepers,” said Budge, simply because they weren’t in a position to make an informed decision.
