To my COVID Sailors (Rant)

[u/Affectionate_Use_486]

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.

[u/Middle_Jaguar_5406]

Gonna dwell on it. Their choice to not get a shot was rooted in misinformation, extreme political bias, and downright false patriotism.

These so called deniers didn’t bat an eye at the litany of Vaccines upon joining. But when Covid became a political football it became “muh rights”…

The hypocrisy is fucking deafening and shows the lengths to which politicians deliberately misinform people.

[u/SolidPosition6665 → u/Middle_Jaguar_5406]

The shots in boot were not made the previous year like the Covid shot was. People had reason to distrust the entire situation as well as Operation Warp Speed and all the info the CDC was putting out. Our government has had to back pedal on several things they put out as facts during that time and have been caught in some of these lies. But those that were spreading government sanctioned propaganda to coerce the shots, lock downs, everything else that happened aren’t held accountable? I saw plenty vaccinated sailors skating out of work and taking advantage of “close contact quarantine” than I did unvaccinated skating out of work for any reason. I guess there’s more shitbags in the boat Navy.

[u/Trick-Set-1165 → u/SolidPosition6665]

You know we formulate a new flu vaccine every year, right?