Pokebball

This distraction you and others are speaking of...it takes two. I'll simply leave it at that.

You seem to want to argue what you're victimizing him over, by assuming I meant his vaccination stance. Then you proceed to victimize over other shyt. All I said is that you are victimizing him. By doing so, you become part of the distraction.

That's because you're victimizing him, no?

Beas

Raiders are stuck with him for another year before they can cut him. The Raiders are always overpaying for talent.

It's the Raiders!

I'm also a Raiders fan (yeah, let me have it) and he's been on the bubble to be cut for a month or two now. The Raiders are now in a tough spot.

Never addressed the efficacy of social media. But many a celebrity sure seem to use it.

Agree. He's already stated his decision, I believe.

why can't a player fight for what they believe to be better or more appropriate protocols?

For a long time, I gave Fauci the benefit of the doubt. I don't like what I'm hearing today.

There are a significant number of pro athletes waiting to get poked. I don't think they are waiting because they are selfish. I think their doctors, trainers and other healthcare professionals are telling them they are low risk and might be putting something in their bodies that could hurt them more than help them. I think pro athletes are assessing the risks. I know many of you don't, you think they're stupid or selfish. I think this is a very serious and important decision they are facing and they truly believe they are doing the right thing for themselves, their career, their team and their sport.

You can't make Allen or Diggs get the vaccine. The risk of covid is on the list of all of the other risks they assume each and every day.

The realistic point in this response, to me anyway, is the impact that quarantines could have on the games and season. The odds of serious illness for this demographic are pretty low and any that might occur will be just a few.

While I generally agree with this, I can also acknowledge that we don't yet know all of the long-term effects of taking the vaccine, if there even is any. To a young, healthy, adult the risk of Covid having any serious effect is very low.

I get your point, however there is the counter point that anyone and everyone that doesn't get the vaccine is accepting the risk themselves. While the unvaccinated arguably put each other at risk, individually they are accepting that risk.

Well, we've got 75 yrs of data on the flu and what, 18 months of data on covid? Generally, the flu attacks everyone. Covid attacks the old, weak and otherwise compromised. The actuarial data on covid will be most significant in my opinion.

It actually does mean a lot in the actuarial sense. But that's a rabbit hole we don't need to jump in.

I believe the flu is more dangerous (and more deadly) to young children.

All hospitals I'm familiar with are not requiring shots nor are they requiring staff to wear masks when they're out in public.

As another said above, I think we're in for a couple of entertaining months.

If vaccinated players are allowed to travel and go mask free around all of us common folk, why the concern about them being around unvaccinated teammates?

I hope his teammates are OK with what he's doing. The understanding I and others were left with was that the team wasn't going to get into these discussions. Yet here we now are. Granted, the protocols are new and obviously controversial. What I'm left with at this moment is the hope that Beas hasn't gone contrary to his team's wishes.

Good question

The NFL protocol is as clear as it can be. That doesn't mean it's legal. When you prevent a person from working, or even provide a "hardship", labor laws get pretty serious. The protocol might end up being legal. Al I'm saying is they haven't been challenged and adjudicated yet.