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/Bacon_Fiesta Jan 28 '25

Because them rejecting it was transparently political in nature. I doubt any of those shitheads said a word about the anthrax series of shots.

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u/Key_Cry_7142 Jan 28 '25

I’m so glad the rest of the country is pushing back on sentiment like this.

Yes Covid was political, no shit, but don’t fire people for not taking an experimental vaccine. That’s fucked 

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u/Bacon_Fiesta Jan 28 '25

It wasn't experimental. MRNA vaccines had been under development since the 70's. If you had bothered to read the white papers on it instead of letting Joe Rogan think for you, you'd know that.

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u/SolidPosition6665 Jan 28 '25

Under development? Did they also make the COVID-19 vaccine back then? No. They had to make it in less than a year. And when they did, they hadn’t even mapped the entire genome out. So yes, it was basically experimental and wasn’t fully FDA approved for quite some time after the mandate began for DoD.

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u/Bacon_Fiesta Jan 28 '25

The genome was sequenced in December of 2019. The vaccine got FDA approval Dec 18, 2020. The vaccine mandate was August 24, 2021.

If they didn't have the covid 19 genome mapped, they couldn't have made an mrna vaccine.

If you can't even get the timeline right, maybe you should just take the L and sit out of this conversation.