Statistics on the COVID Vaccine in the Marines

Trying to get them to get the required shots is also a challenge. My son declined. I know a battalion commander calling people <dirty name > in his FB page for getting the vaccine.
 
Devil Doc said:
Trying to get them to get the required shots is also a challenge. My son declined. I know a battalion commander calling people <dirty name > in his FB page for getting the vaccine.
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Gonna have to start monitoring Marine Corps times for report of said Battalion Commander being relieved for "failure of confidence in his ability to lead" or whatever the buzz word the Marines use for the exploding command pin. (The fact that a Battalion Commander even maintains a Facebook page astounds me)
 
Old Navy BGO said:
Gonna have to start monitoring Marine Corps times for report of said Battalion Commander being relieved for "failure of confidence in his ability to lead" or whatever the buzz word the Marines use for the exploding command pin. (The fact that a Battalion Commander even maintains a Facebook page astounds me)
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I agree. I just looked and he replaced it with a motivational message about preparing and not using the pandemic as an excuse, etc.
 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-forty-percent-us-marines-decline/7173918002/

Another article confirmed the 40% number. I did not think it was true yesterday when I first saw it but I guess that it is. I am with a smaller company of 2000 employees but still fortune 500 and we had numbers come out this morning that 48% of our workforce will NOT take the vaccine under any/most circumstances. Looks like we are headed for some intense litigation in all sectors reference to this. After seeing these numbers I am very surprised 95% of west point cadets are ok with taking it? Or is this just a "I will do anything not to screw up my service academy appointment?"
 
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jeffinCharlotte said:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-forty-percent-us-marines-decline/7173918002/

Another article confirmed the 40% number. I did not think it was true yesterday when I first saw it but I guess that it is. I am with a smaller company of 2000 employees but still fortune 500 and we had numbers come out this morning that 48% of our workforce will NOT take the vaccine under any/most circumstances. Looks like we are headed for some intense litigation in all sectors reference to this. After seeing these numbers I am very surprised 95% of west point cadets are ok with taking it? Or is this just a "I will do anything not to screw up my service academy appointment?"
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The vaccine has nothing to do with the service academy appointments at this point. These are current Cadets who elected to get the vaccine.

As I’ve written before, this vaccine is pretty low key compared to some of the others I’ve received from the Army over the years. DW is very tired of telling the Army she is immune to smallpox. Every few years they try to vaccinate her again... then one more time when her arm doesn’t scar.
 
I wonder what the % are enlisted vs. commissioned? On another note.......My kid and most if not all of his closest SNA buds are getting or got it. Was not even an option for him (not available) until he went under Navy command in Milton. He for sure wanted his. Did not say one way or the other if he was voluntold.
 
Marines are trained to be both hard-headed and selfless. It could be that a lot of them are not in any risk group, and want others to have access to the vaccines before they get in line.
 
USNA 19 DAD said:
I wonder what the % are enlisted vs. commissioned? On another note.......My kid and most if not all of his closest SNA buds are getting or got it. Was not even an option for him (not available) until he went under Navy command in Milton. He for sure wanted his. Did not say one way or the other if he was voluntold.
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I would assume their is a big divide along these lines. I work in a corporate office setting and we have 8 plants around the USA. It is our blue collar workers that appear to be very against the vaccine while us at corporate are probably more inclined to take the vaccine. At least that is what our surveys are telling us. That is kinda like a version of officer vs enlisted. At the moment it appears we could have a sticky situation this summer. People are very angry at us here at corporate. We are trying to explain that taking the vaccine is not mandatory but that it is recommended. But that is not how many of our workers are taking it. I am very interested to see how the military reacts to the push back.
 
I don’t think people understand how the EUA for the vaccines works. There is this misconception that the vaccines were not tested or tested very little.
In fact, they went through the complete Phase 1 and 2 testing, but limited Phase 3 testing in order to expedite their roll out.
Last I heard, Pfizer anticipated having a full Phase 3 complete by the end of April and FDA approval soon after. Once it’s approved I think the desires of the military member become a mute point.
My intent is not to go down the rabbit hole of an antivax debate. Just to point out this aspect.
Having said that, if this vaccine upsets members of the military I think they will be in for a rude awakening or a short career. This one would have been way, way down my list if I was not retired.
 
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I have a first person account of why one Marine officer declined the vaccine. In fact he called this morning on his way to Pendleton for briefs and meetings. We had talked about it before but I asked him if he’d heard all the caterwauling about the 40 percent of Marines who didn’t get the shot. He had not heard or read about it but said in 10 years when he grows a third eye and another prostate and they tell him he volunteered for the non-approved vaccine and there will be no compensation he would rip somebody’s head off. In order to save that person’s head, he will wait until the vaccine is taken off the emergency use status and get it when it becomes mandatory.
 
USMCGrunt said:
Ha!

Sergeant Major Dan Daly might respond with "come on, you sons of *****es, do you want to live forever?" ;)
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I always ask, was the SgtMaj asking if they wanted to die and live forever in the lore of the Corps, or charge into a sure death to defeat the enemy but cutting out any chance to live forever.
 
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