Stigma or precaution? DoD memo lists Covid-19 as ‘permanently disqualifying’ for survivors seeking to join army
https://www.rt.com/usa/487984-corona...-military-ban/

So what’s going on here?

Is there something we’re not being told?

 

You are aware that RT started out as Russia Today? They aren’t the most reliable source for info about the US military.

Having said that, epidemics among recruits in basic training have ALWAYS been a problem.

https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S...08)00163-3/pdf

It would not surprise me if they barred anyone with a history if COVID from being recruited until they can come up with procedures to assure nobody is spreading the virus before they let them into basic training.

It wouldn’t even surprise me if they didn’t take them until there was a vaccine available.The list of immunizations routinely given in basic training is quite extensive:

https://www.thebalancecareers.com/mi...ations-4058318

Bringing a bunch of people in from all over the US and putting them into the same barracks entails considerable risk for meningitis and other diseases that may be brought in by immune carriers to a disease and rapidly spread in the boot camp environment.

 

COVID-19 can cause permanent lung damage. Maybe they feel that the risk of compromised soldiers with reduced lung capacity is not worth the trouble?

 

RT?

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha

 

I have no affiliation with the military and you apparently do, so why has the pentagon remained silent when pressed on this subject if it’s just the same reasoning as any other new disease?

Besides the point, I’m very well aware of what RT is. I hold dual citizenship and I’ve resided in Russia for more than 6 years and I can tell you that Voice of America (RT’s “propaganda” competition) couldn’t hold water for **** there. We can reserve this argument for a different thread/different day though.

 

Discussed here

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/y...-the-military/

 

Wow that’s like almost point blank the same exact article that I’ve posted, but this time the “source” is coming from “military times” so it must be true. Thank you, this thread might now become worthy of conservable now...

 

And this is why I, despite being young and healthy, have no interest in going about my life fully like normal just yet. It's very likely that I'll survive it, but at least for the next month or two I'm going to wait this one out a bit until we find out more about the virus, its effects, and discover better treatments. I'm fine having a few ****ty months in exchange for not being out of breath when I climb up a flight of stairs for the rest of my life.

 

That will probably continue till there is a vaccine. I wonder if there will be any effect on FAA medical certification?

 

Worthy of conservable?

Look, I didn’t FAIL to discuss the issue. As I posted, anytime you shove a bunch of recruits from different areas of the country into a basic training barracks you create a situation ripe for disease spread. Over 15% of people are asymptomatic strep carriers:

https://www.cdc.gov/groupastrep/dise...ep-throat.html

From 10 to 35% of people are asymptomatic carriers for neisseria meningitidis, the causative agent for meningitis.


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719693/


same goes for adenoviruses and other organisms.


https://homelandprepnews.com/counter...virus-vaccine/

While most people have been exposed to and are immune to the strains from their own geographical regions when you shove a bunch of people from different regions with different strains together frequently all h€|| breaks lose, which is why about the first thing that happens in basic training is that the trainees get immunizations for a lot of things that the general public neither gets nor needs.

it is not in the least unreasonable that the military take action to bar people who might be asymptomatic carriers until the details of coronavirus infection in the US population are fully worked out, and depending on those details, even until a vaccine is available.