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I thought it was very entertaining. Aaron is "different" than most nfl players and stars in general. I like that he uses his brain and questions things.
I don't get all the hate for the guy. He lives his life. He's one of the greatest QBs and competitors the NFl has ever seen. Much respect.
I am an AR fan. Doesn't mean I necessarily like everything he says, but so what? Yes, I like the fact that he is an "independent" thinker. He may be misguided about some things, but who the heck isn't?
"The hate" is from people who think they are never misguided and put partisan politics above everything. It gets tiring.
My personal distrust of him is due to his not wearing a mask when he knew he wasn't vaccinated or "immunized"…
It's not a political issue it was a public health issue. I lost a member of my immediate family to Covid and I have zero tolerance for people who refuse to isolate / wear a mask. I don't care if they don't want to be vaccinated that's fine but when someone refuses to wear a mask in the middle of a pandemic that caused over a million deaths it says a lot about the character of that person. Same goes for Newsom and same goes for RFK jr and anyone else who would have been ostracized (and rightfully so) as a "slacker" during the Spanish flu.
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I have zero tolerance for forced injections of experimental vaccines.
As I said in my reply that's fine and dandy as I myself don't trust them either. But with that choice comes the responsibility of not going into a crowded press room and not wearing a mask when the requirement to be in that room is either being vaccinated or wearing a mask. It's irresponsible selfish behavior no way around it.
It was ludicrous to require folks to be vaccinated if they had already recently had covid. That is just nonsensical.
Who required you to get vaccinated?
I don't play in the NFL. However, my employer, based on CDC guidelines would force anyone unvaccinated out of work for weeks if anyone working near them for more than a few minutes a day got covid. If you were vaccinated, you wouldn't miss any work. There was similar policies at my kids' schools. There is a reason many pro athletes bought fake vaccine passports.
Your employer wanted unvaccinated people to stay out of the office after coming in contact with the virus that was causing a global pandemic? Just to be clear, you didn't lose your job for not not getting vaccinated? Nobody forced the shot on you, right? Sorry, but that doesn't sound like much of a hardship.
Wait - are we really pretending like many, many, many people weren't forced to be vaxxed or coerced with massive consequences if they didn't?
Pretty much every college student was forced to get vaxed even if they had recently had covid. My son, who was a college student and has congenital heart issues, was forced to get vaxed multiple times even though he had caught covid in October 2020. He asked for an exemption and was denied by his school (not Cal).
We shouldn't turn this into a vax thread. But let's be honest as to how these things went down.
And just to be clear, I'm very pro-vax and literally just got a COVID shot 2 weeks ago because based on my age, health profile, doctor's advice, and personal research, I thought it was the right thing to do. It doesn't mean everyone else should be forced to do the same.
Your son presumably went to public school, correct? So your son was also forced to get countless other vaccines in order to attend his school, right? Did you also find that outrageous?
He actually went to a private college but public schools before college.
Do you understand that there's a difference between vaccines with proven trials and brand new vaccines that have not been tested and have been approved on an emergency basis? new vaccines being forced upon an age group (healthy adults under 25) where there was virtually no COVID health risk and, as such, not much benefit to the vax?
Do you realize that in hindsight, for my son, getting the vax multiple times was the more dangerous thing to do for his health? That is now a proven fact yet, at the time, it was blasphemy to even raise that as a question.
Both my children received the normal childhood vax regimens, though I suppose we could have claimed medical or religious exemptions if we had any (for school purposes). There were some vaccines (eg HPV) that were not mandatory and we as a family made a medical decision about.
The FDA approved the vaccines. So you're saying you don't trust the FDA? And please show me some medical proof that your son getting vaccinated was dangerous for him?
Do you realize that the FDA takes drugs off the approval list all the time, in some cases due to massive mistakes (Thalidomide)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_withdrawn_drugshttps://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-approvals-and-databases/additionsdeletions-prescription-and-otc-drug-product-listsAre you aware that the WHO does not recommend re-vaccination of healthy adults under 50 or children?
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines/advice Are you aware that most of Europe does not require COVID vaccination of children? The US/FDA is the outlier here . . . for some reason.
Below are links to some studies showing the risk of vaccination to young adults (particularly male). But the larger is issue is that there was literally no benefit to my son (who already had Covid) in receiving repeated vaccinations. He had virtually no risk of death or serious illness from COVID - full stop - and that was known by 2021. So if you're doing a cost-benefit analysis, there was no reason to force a vax on him.
https://jme.bmj.com/content/50/2/126Here is a link re Myocardia in Men under 40.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9880674/#eci13947-sec-0016https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9143867/#sec5-vaccines-10-00744 - "the risk of the inflammatory response to COVID-19 vaccines such as myocarditis or pericarditis and MIS was significantly higher in adolescent males than in adults. "
Again - I just took the vax AGAIN. I'm not against the vax. But just because it is right for me doesn't mean everyone else should get it - or be forced to get it.
The FDA's policy is outdated and out of step with the rest of the world. We can speculate why (Big Pharma, politics, entrenched bureaucrats who won't admit they were wrong, etc.), but that is clearly the case.