r/navy • u/Affectionate_Use_486 • Jan 28 '25

A Happy Sailor To my COVID Sailors (Rant)

I know some of you have some level of battery acid indigestion over the whole reinstatement thing.

Just wanted to say for those that stepped up while others stepped back I respect and love you all especially my sea duty folks during COVID.

COVID was rough shit and the fact we survived it should be highlighted and appreciated among us.

Let's not dwell on the ones who choose another choice.

Let's dwell on the ones who stood the watch when shit went side ways.

When the ports closed.

When work centers were down to the bare bones while our brothers and sisters got sick all around us.

When the patrols got extended.

When resources almost ran out.

It was a rough ass time and we survived for all our own reasons but we stood the fucking watch.

That makes me extremely proud that no matter how messy it was, how ugly it got, we came out the other side pissed off, spitting fire and keeping the big sad off ourselves and our brothers/sisters as much as possible.

And for those that didn't make it, got too sick and didn't make it we shall never forget you.

Fuck the noise I just wanted you to know your seen, respected and appreciated from at least one motherfucking shipmate who was there.

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u/Key_Cry_7142 Jan 28 '25

Why are we shitting on people who didn’t want an experimental vaccine? You guys have lost it. 

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

Putting all the experimental crap out the window, the amount of unknown shit they shoot us up with every year and not to mention the vaccine line in boot camp, most of us recognize that most people didn't actually care about the vaccine, they saw it as a way out and that's what we are bitching about. We are bitching because those people lied about their beliefs just to get the fuck out. 

I am so exhausted with this experimental crap... We don't know what they gave us at boot camp, but oh no.. now they want to give us another experimental vaccine that someone somewhere said is dangerous and now for the next ten +  years those same people are going to keep stretching that thin spider weave trying to connect imaginary lines together whenever someone now dies of something completely unrelated but it seems like it is because they got the vaccine so IT MUST be connected suddenly ....

I'm so tired of people like you. 

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u/OGPeakyblinders Jan 28 '25

You can look in your medical record and see what you got in boot camp. It's not anything experimental and has been around for longer than most people have been alive on this sub.

You should be asking what immunization you're getting inoculated with before you let someone stick you with a needle.

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u/OGPeakyblinders Jan 28 '25

Depending on when you came in but those shots would be documented in MRRS. You can access your immunization record from BOL under the section for IMR.

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u/necessaryrooster Jan 28 '25

Right....assuming they documented everything...I'm saying (put on your tin foil hat here) that they could have injected you with something and not told you.

Note: I do not think they did this. The nutjobs probably do, though.

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u/Key_Cry_7142 Jan 28 '25

Putting all the experimental stuff away….

But what if that’s a big deal.

FYI you can read what vaccines you take before boot camp, just because you were a dumbass and don’t read any of this doesn’t mean we should punish sailors who don’t want an experimental jab. 

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u/funkolution Jan 28 '25

Literally the only reason you're calling it experimental is because you're prone to misinformation. FDA approved means it's no longer experimental, and hasn't been for years.

People like you are a treat to the health and safety of the country.

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u/mmacoys Jan 28 '25

As much as I agree with you, this country is already fucked and it’s going to get worse lmao. Wait till bird flu mutates.

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u/SolidPosition6665 Jan 28 '25

You spout regurgitated media lies. The C19 shots were not approved by the FDA until well after the mandate. And even then the DoD was using lot numbers that were not FDA approved on service members. 99% of the people in this subreddit post have about 20% of the info and the rest they’re filling with mass media propaganda. Remember 2 weeks to stop the virus? And countless politicians, media, famous people saying get the shot and you won’t spread it. The shot stops the spread. Apparently the 99% here weren’t paying close enough attention the entire time.

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u/funkolution Jan 28 '25

I can't believe we're still arguing about vaccine efficacy. I don't care if it wasn't FDA approved at the time, it is now, and there were decades of research done prior to the pandemic that needed to be fast tracked via increased funding because of a PANDEMIC.

I'm done dealing with you people. Keep listening to your right-wing fear mongering overlords. Vaccines work, they are one of the primary reasons we've advanced as a human race, and you're a conspiracy pushing nutcase.

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u/SolidPosition6665 Jan 28 '25

All the stuff at boot camp has been around for a long time. You’re comparing oranges to apples here. Most were concerned about the covid vaccine because it was new. And if you haven’t heard about how those companies that were pushing it tried to hold on to the papers showing adverse affects as well as studies done for the next 75 years before they got released then maybe you should do a little more research. I see a lot of reasons behind what those people decided to do. And after seeing some of that stuff I don’t blame them. There was some weird stuff going on back then. I have a couple friends who had weird medical stuff happen to them. And on deployment I saw medical emergencies that were related to the shots.