First off let me thank God for your service and prayers.
Would it surprise you that big pharma, back pocket politicians, and the wealthy would mess with the numbers and give their own narrative in order to cover up their own tracks and blame the unvaccinated? Especially if they get caught for lying about covid caused deaths because there was more incentive to make a lot more money. Likewise, the other side is saying that the vaccinated are the ones that are the majority that are being hospitalized. So someone is lying to us and I would think the culprits would be where the money is. Reason so is because what do the un-vaccinated have to gain besides being mocked, ostracized, and even being accused as the culprits in the mainstream? So there are two ways to boost immunity, synthetically man made jabs, or utilizing the resources we already have through good nutrition. Instant fix with the hopes it works, or doing it the proper way. Have you considered the harmful effects and even death from taking vaccines in general? Which there are numerous cases throughout history.
Personally it doesn't make sense to keep on taking the jabs if it didn't work in the first place. We were promised 98-100% effectiveness before they were rolled out. Now we keep finding out that it doesn't work, so we have to take another shot, and another one, and now a booster. So are we going to have to take shots for the rest of our lives? Oh wait, we've already been conditioned to do so.
But...your right, it's the way that they are using this "plandemic," in order to "introduce draconian laws and undermine civil liberties." The reason why I say "plandemic" is because they actually underwent a mock scenario of a pandemic a few years back of exactly what's going on now. They know how to set up the scenario, have us willingly go along by giving are rights away, then pounce! This would be hitlers dream. In other words nazi germany 2.0 pretty much, instead they don't have to force us to willingly kill ourselves. The way they mainly do it is by priming us through the mainstream propaganda machine (newspapers, news, movies). As believers and what sets us apart from the worldly mindset/consensus is the Truth of the Word.
I too have a friend with a family that's in the military. From my understanding in history is that y'all are pretty much expendable guinea pigs for whichever drug they want to use on you. Am I wrong? They literally threatened my friend with a dishonorable discharge because he didn't want to take the jab, and guess what? He took it. Because he knew that he would lose everything he worked for in order to support his family, MP.
Anyways, I enjoy discussions like this because it helps us reason with one another in order to come to the truth. As long as it's for the TRUTH and not how we feel.
Here's a link of an article that I read. It's pretty informative. Check it out if you like and see if it at least rings true. If not, and you have counter information that you can provide, then I would definitely like to read it in order to weigh the facts and come to an educated conclusion.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-12-17-cdc-warned-15000-americans-will-die-each-week-vaccine-death-wave.htm
Prayers for you, your friends, and family! Main thing is to trust in Yeshua/Jesus to lead us, guide us, and direct us on the right path, because the path to destruction is wide!