You know your sick anyway, what dif does it make if its corona or a cold or the flu?
That was what pissed me off in the military. Wake up feeling like shit? Show up at roll call, get sent to sick bay. Sit around waiting room with dozens of guys coughing, sneezing, puking into waste baskets. Finally see some 19yo corpsman that takes your temp and tells your sick, and gives you a bed-rest chit. Shuffle miles across the base to your work area, show the NCOIC the chit and he tells you to go back to the barracks to bed. Shuffle a mile or so to the barracks. Next day feel even worse. Go straight to sickbay, eventually see a different 20yo corpsman, shit dude, you're sick! Wait awhile a Chief checks your temp, dude you were put on bed rest yesterday, why are you worn out? Better get one of the docs to see you. Doc right out of med school says it might be pneumonia. Wants to know why you were wandering all over the base before you went to bed. You might be written up for not following 1st corpsmans order for bed rest. Finally get well. Enlistment is almost up, have to go see the career counselor about re-enlisting.
Enlistment is almost up, have to go see the career counselor about re-enlisting.
Consider the current political purges going on in the military. Realize that they have been going on for a good decade +.
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