By streiff | Dec 26, 2021 11:00 AM ET
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The USS Milwaukee was supposed to be participating in a counternarcotics operation in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Instead, it is tied up at a pier at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cooling its heels.nThe reason is that the ship was hit with a COVID outbreak. But it wasn’t just any outbreak; it was an outbreak among a crew that was fully immunized.
The fact that the Navy refuses to disclose the number of cases leads me to believe that the number is very close to “all.” That the Navy isn’t forthcoming with the number of sailors with “boosters” is also an indication that number is “all.” We also have a sure sign that the Navy is grasping for straws on how to handle a mass infection of vaccinated sailors.
There are so many glaring questions that need exploration. For instance, if the symptoms are “minor,” why was the ship pulled out of a major deployment? Is the new normal for our Navy running for port when there is a COVID outbreak? What is being done for the infected sailors in Guantanamo that could not be accomplished while underway?
As many of us have said from the earliest days of the pandemic scaremongering, the virus is with us forever. We need to learn to live with it as part of the landscape. The fatally flawed strategy of focusing on a vaccine rather than on therapeutics has been a multi-billion dollar boondoggle and a waste of time. All of these sailors were “fully vaccinated,” and yet there was an outbreak.
The idea that we can have a Navy warship rendered combat ineffective by a virus for which the crew has been vaccinated is just not acceptable. It is not only a failure of “public health,” which is something of a redundancy these days but a failure of military leadership.
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The USS Milwaukee was supposed to be participating in a counternarcotics operation in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Instead, it is tied up at a pier at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cooling its heels.nThe reason is that the ship was hit with a COVID outbreak. But it wasn’t just any outbreak; it was an outbreak among a crew that was fully immunized.
The fact that the Navy refuses to disclose the number of cases leads me to believe that the number is very close to “all.” That the Navy isn’t forthcoming with the number of sailors with “boosters” is also an indication that number is “all.” We also have a sure sign that the Navy is grasping for straws on how to handle a mass infection of vaccinated sailors.
“When in danger, when in doubt; run in circles, scream and shout.”
There are so many glaring questions that need exploration. For instance, if the symptoms are “minor,” why was the ship pulled out of a major deployment? Is the new normal for our Navy running for port when there is a COVID outbreak? What is being done for the infected sailors in Guantanamo that could not be accomplished while underway?
As many of us have said from the earliest days of the pandemic scaremongering, the virus is with us forever. We need to learn to live with it as part of the landscape. The fatally flawed strategy of focusing on a vaccine rather than on therapeutics has been a multi-billion dollar boondoggle and a waste of time. All of these sailors were “fully vaccinated,” and yet there was an outbreak.
The idea that we can have a Navy warship rendered combat ineffective by a virus for which the crew has been vaccinated is just not acceptable. It is not only a failure of “public health,” which is something of a redundancy these days but a failure of military leadership.
