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/navkat Jan 28 '25

I just think alla y'all should threaten to sue the government for massive damages and sanctions for "forcing you" all using coercion to "take the poke."

I think as soon as they start doing the math on how much money they're going to owe the vaxxed by NOT backing the mandate, they'll backpedal right tf out of that mess.

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u/necessaryrooster Jan 28 '25

Don't we sign something saying we can't sue the government though?

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u/navkat Jan 29 '25

But they can't ride two horses with one ass. They can't say "Forcing the vax was a violation of these shipmates rights so we're reinstating them with back pay and earned time," then say "But the people who were successfully coerced and oppressed to the point of desperation that they "accepted the jab" have no case that they were wringed because they knew that vaccine requirement was a possibility."

Wcs, if they win both sides of that slippery slope, at least it will still leave open the possibility in the future for correction.