Military Bans COVID Survivors From Enlisting | Talking Points Memo

Let me get this straight:

Let’s forget about the fact that the Military has been a good steppingstone for POC…

There are millions of whites who love the Military and would benefit from the Military. And who are hopelessly mired in Trump World and Trumpsterism.

Is following Trump (because Trump wants their exposure to COVID for his re-election campaign) worth that goal?

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“Pence, fetch me the disco butt plug and an extension cord”

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Just wanted to clear up a few things:

  1. This applies to ALL recruits who have tested positive for COVID-19, not just those who have been hospitalized.
  2. This is interim guidance.
  3. A “permanent disqualifying” status does NOT mean you’re barred from serving in the military. There are numerous conditions that can apply the “permanently disqualified” status, but for many of them, a recruit can apply for and receive a medical waiver.

The most likely explanation in my mind is that they’re establishing an interim disqualifying status until we know more about long-term pathologies, and until they can establish the processes and parameters of when or if a medical waiver may be granted.

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YES!!!

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Where will all the tests come from?

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Wow, nice button! That might just win the Internet today !!! :+1::+1::+1:

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Under the military’s medical profiling system, that indicates a disqualifying defect in the applicant’s physical capacity or stamina.

Because the military understands, unlike my dumbfuck Millenial-bro neighbors and their kids having pool parties each weekend, that even young otherwise healthy people can experience permanent lung, kidney, and liver damage from COVID-19. Never mind the strokes. Sure the death count for young people is lower, but COVID will still fuck your shit up, permanently.

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But they make up for it with their offense.

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With a lysol chaser.

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What flavor of lysol do you like best? I like lemon breeze myself.

It is well established that survivors can have long term chronic conditions Involving heart, lungs & kidneys whether they were hospitalized or not. It is becoming more clear that vascular coagulopathy is part of clinical pathogenesis of CoVID19. This results in chronic long term condition with diminished function of heart, lungs, kidney as well as possible neurological deficits…

While there is disproportionate mortality of minorities there is no data that as a group minority’s are more susceptible to CoV rather if they do contract the disease course is more likely to be severe.

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Except a higher proportion of minorities have front line jobs

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Enlisted personnel are disproportionately minorities compared to the general population. The officer corps is whiter.

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Yes, but even data for NYC is showing many of hospitalizations are folks who stay at home, don’t use public transit & are not lower SES.

I certainly defer to those with military experience on this.
I would like to know what the enlistment data is for the last 10 years. Numbers up or down, what’s the trend?

Not sure where you’re trying to get with that? Overall, the military has been downsizing in the last decade, so fewer recruits needed in general.

I like the seasonal “Spring Fresh” Clorox. I’m hoping there’s a Pumpkin Spice for fall.

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That’s what I was thinking of separate from the Covid mark off for enlistment. Just wondering what the 10 year trend was in enlistment and the downsizing in general. No particular reason, just curious.

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No real idea exactly, but they’ve been meeting whatever numbers they need, as we haven’t seen anything pop up about shortages.

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