Military Medal for Covid-19?

 Someone brought it up to me today....that the Pentagon back in the summer approved a medal for Covid-19 'operations'.  My first reaction....are you crazy?  I went and did the research, and yes.....it exists.  

Well...so the medal is the Armed Forces Services Medal and Humanitarian Service Medal.  

Basically, you are 'directed' to support some purpose or mission that is for Covid-19, and it's for a minimum of 30 days. If you were detailed out to handle paperwork for some base office for 30 days that matter on Covid-19?  Yep, that's enough.  

A worthless medal?  Well....you don't get points for promotion over this, but if you were looking for just another medal for your uniform....it's a fairly easy one to acquire.  Multiple ones?  I would assume that you could get two or three a year, if you broke these times up into 30 to 45 days at a whack.

Explaining this to the old guys who did military time in the 1960s in Nam?  It's best not to bring this up.