07-23-2021, 02:09 PM
(07-23-2021, 01:57 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: So there wasn’t a single game cancelled due to false positives. This year, forfeits can occur if the team is unable to field a team due to unvaccinated players. That means the team would have to have multiple false positives in an entire position group without time to perform retesting in unvaccinated players making this scenario unlikely, but not impossible.
At this point, Covid is 95% preventable with the Pfizer vaccine, 94% with Moderna, and 66% with Johnson&Johnson.
You just described a false positive so I don’t understand what you mean.
Forfeits won’t occur because of vaccinated players. So if you have 53 vaccinated players test positive, they won’t be allowed to play to prevent possibly infecting the other team, but the team doesn’t have to forfeit and the NFL also stated in this situation they will work with the teams to reschedule.
Do we really know that about Delta and any other future variants though? Early statistics are showing that Pfizer isnt as effective against Delta. Do they change the rules to fit that if it turns out to be true? For instance if players had the Pfizer vax they would have to get a different one to fit the new strains to avoid punishment? What if a new strain comes out that none of the vaccines are effective against? Do they all get punished, or do they just drop it all and let things play out how they will?
Lots of unanswered questions with both Covid and the vaccines. Too many to start imposing such rules, imo.
I wonder if a few years down the road, we will be seeing TV commercials saying: "If you took the _______ Vaccine and you grew a third eye, you are entitled to compensation" lol. I'm just being goofy, but, something like that is possible. How many people truly trust the pharm industry? It's weird because 20 years ago and earlier, almost no one did, especially liberals. Fear works.
