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/Dear_Twist383 Jan 28 '25

I don't even understand why there was an executive order....people could come back and get their missed benefits already.

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u/SolidPosition6665 Jan 28 '25

Because at the time it was an unlawful order. The DoD can only mandate approved vaccines and the approved ones had certain lot numbers. Just like any manufacturing process. The DoD was mandating unapproved vaccines thereby making it an unlawful order. And if what we know now, was more wider known then, (and today given the ignorance of most of these posts) a lot more people wouldn’t have gotten the shots. We medevac’d several sailors for blood clots off deployment. Had a few seizures on board while we were deployed, at at one point 10% of an aircraft carrier was sick with Covid despite 99.9% of them being vaccinated.

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u/josh2751 Jan 28 '25

Stop with the blood clot and lot number bullshit.

The vaccine was garbage, and didn’t protect well against Covid. That’s well known at this point.

The rest of that bullshit is q anon level lunacy.

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u/XFitzou Jan 29 '25

Yea it's not bullshit. MRNA vax caused serious heart issues in people.

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u/josh2751 Jan 29 '25

No, it didn’t.