Tannehill "In Process" of Getting Vaccine; Would've Declined Without NFL Protocols

[Doogie]

1 minute ago, scine09 said:

Me?  When did I say that?  

My bad. It was StephenIsLegend.  

[scine09]

Just now, Doogie said:

My bad. It was StephenIsLegend.  

I'll root for him as much as I did before.  And I knew he was religious.  I'm just disappointed that he didn't get the vaccine voluntarily.  Particularly as one of the leaders of the team.

[Bink]

2 minutes ago, Doogie said:

So you feel dirty rooting for someone who disagrees with you politically? Can't you just accept the fact that not everyone has the same opinion as you?

 

There is a difference between have a different opinion politically and looking at people who are fundamentally toxic to society and wanting no part of that. 

 

To your previous point about how "unbelieveable" it is that this is a bigger story than training camp...

 

we are only in the middle of a generational public health crisis worsened by the fact that many of our neighbors and leaders refuse or outright can't think logically like adults, a legion of folks radicalized by social media while hospitals are overrun, doctors and nurses are quitting in droves, and even children are now being put on ventilators. 

 

Not thinking this is a story, or thinking it is overblown, to me is the entitlement born out of a country that is throwing away vaccines while other countries in the world are desperate for help, the same people who have willfully ignored the worsening of our healthcare system for decades for no reason other than--I guess--someone else's vague profit. 

 

Watching for a whole year as people fight tooth and nail against the most basic and noninvasive societal ask I can think of--wearing a mask, of course it doesn't surprise me that people shrink inside of their own fear or their "reasons" to avoid vaccines.  

 

BUT GOD DAMMIT, THE EXCITEMENT AND IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING CAMP, RIGHT!?!

 

 

[TeamRamrod]

 Starting to wonder if he wasn’t actually making an Animal House reference with this quote.

[FinFaninNOVA]

1 hour ago, scine09 said:

Let's remember, this is a guy who in his first preseason thought the Chiefs were in the AFC East.  He's a very good QB but maybe not the brightest bulb.

He has a degree in biology and graduated with a 3.63 GPA. I think he was considering med school. 

 

 

[scine09]

1 minute ago, FinFaninNOVA said:

He has a degree in biology and graduated with a 3.63 GPA. I think he was considering med school. 

 

 

Okay.  I responded later that he may be smart but his take on the vaccine is anything but.

[VaTitan]

21 minutes ago, OILERMAN said:

I bet it’s religious

 

What's the religious basis of not getting vaccinated?  

[tgo]

14 minutes ago, AvgJoe said:

It shouldn’t be, but both sides have made it that way with the radicals on both sides. 

 

Both sides? The radical anti vaxxers and radical pro vaxxers? 

 

What is the extreme of the pro vaxx side? They want you to have the booster too in addition to the other shots for even more immunity or something? 

[titanruss]

23 minutes ago, AvgJoe said:

It shouldn’t be, but both sides have made it that way with the radicals on both sides. 

 

 

What in the ever living FUCK are you talking about?

 

One side said to get vaccinated to save yourself, your neighbors, and the world... and get the economy booming as fast as possible.

 

The other side said "uh uh no no cant tell me what to do you jeebus hatin librul!"

 

ONLY the republicans politicized this.

 

 

[CreepingDeath]

15 minutes ago, VaTitan said:

 

What's the religious basis of not getting vaccinated?  

It's the pastor using the church as a political device.  The pastors too wrapped up into national politics push their beliefs (duh, that's what religions do) to their congregation.  So it isn't in scripture anywhere, no.  It's more parroting the party lines.  

[Mythos27]

8 minutes ago, titanruss said:

 

 

What in the ever living FUCK are you talking about?

 

One side said to get vaccinated to save yourself, your neighbors, and the world... and get the economy booming as fast as possible.

 

The other side said "uh uh no no cant tell me what to do you jeebus hatin librul!"

 

ONLY the republicans politicized this.

 

 

The evidence of who politicized this lies in the fact that the U.S. is one of the only countries where covid became a political issue. All around the world people mostly masked and get their vaccines when they get a chance. Only in the U.S. did it become an issue of "freedom" and we all know which side is constantly paranoid that their freedoms are being taken away. If Trump had come out in favor of masking from the get go and given full-throated support of vaccines all along this wouldn't be a political issue and everyone knows it.

 

You always know when a conservative realizes their side caused the problem because they immediately jump to "well both sides did x". 

Edited July 28, 2021 by Mythos27

[TitansAB]

It's days like this that I wish @NFL2K5 would post more... 

[JT2000]

29 minutes ago, scine09 said:

Okay.  I responded later that he may be smart but his take on the vaccine is anything but.

And where have you seen his "take" on vaccination? You and some others are making a lot of assumptions. How about waiting for an interview that asks him the specific question and THEN maybe criticize his answer based on what he said?

[scine09]

1 minute ago, JT2000 said:

And where have you seen his "take" on vaccination? You and some others are making a lot of assumptions. How about waiting for an interview that asks him the specific question and THEN maybe criticize his answer based on what he said?

He literally said he wouldn't take if he didn't feel forced.  What exactly do you think his take is?

 

I'm talking about this specific vaccination.  

[FinFaninNOVA]

5 minutes ago, scine09 said:

Okay.  I responded later that he may be smart but his take on the vaccine is anything but.

There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the vaccines. Not the least of which is the repeated lying by the US Government about them and covid. There ARE potential serious side effects. I do believe the chance of serious side effects are smaller than the potential long term effects of having covid but they are not zero. 

 

My family and I are all fully vaccinated and have been for some time. Even my 18 year old son got himself vaccinated earlier than most because he was doing food delivery and that qualified him before his age group. That doesn't mean I cannot think critically about it and allow for others to come to different conclusions than me. 

 

If (as we are being told) the vaccines work, there is little or no danger to the vaccinated from the unvaccinated. Seriously, I don't understand the hysteria about unvaccinated people.

 

More recently, people have been raising the concern over unvaccinated people allowing virus transmission and possibly increasing the likelihood of a variant that is vaccine resistant.  There are two flaws in that logic. First, I have heard (on a podcast by two liberal evolutionary biologists) that in reality it is imperfect vaccines in the vaccinated that increase the likelihood of vaccine resistant variants. This is understandable when you consider how mutations work. (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198)

 

Second, most of the rest of the world has and for the foreseeable future will continue to have a large percentage of unvaccinated people. We could achieve an 100% vaccination rate in the US tomorrow and it wouldn't eliminate the likelihood of variants. Looking at the CDC website, there are 4 variants of concern (Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Gamma). All of them originated from outside of the United States.