(09-01-2021, 11:36 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(09-01-2021, 11:30 AM)Dimson Wrote: What if you don't have enough players due to covid if they are all vaxxed?

What if martians arrive at half time of the super bowl? 

Let it go. The NFL covid policy is all over the internet. Go read it. 
Here's a large part of it:
https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-covid-19-ou...elled-game

I think the point is the NFL covid policy is now outdated and makes much less sense than when it was crafted.  The rule says "If a game is cancelled/postponed because a club cannot play due to a Covid spike among or resulting from its non-vaccinated players/staff, then the burden of the cancellation or delay will fall on the club experiencing the Covid infection".  As I said this in another thread, the policy was predicated on the idea that vaccinated individuals wouldnt be getting sick and spreading covid.  But now we know they can as vaccines either lose their effectiveness over time or are less effective against variants.  Or some combo of both.  You could easily see a situation where enough vaxxed players get covid where they wouldnt be able to field a roster.  And you'd never be able to prove if it was an unvaxxed person that gave covid to the rest of the team or vice versa.

But even ignoring all that, an ample amount of evidence is beginning to show unvaxxed people who have recovered from covid have much stronger and more lasting immunity (and presumably less likely to spread) than vaxxed people that never had covid.  So in essence a vaxxed person that never had covid is more of a danger to his teammates than an unvaxxed player that has already recovered from it.  

I know people will say the rules are the rules and you have to follow the rules.  But there is nothing stopping the NFL from updating their policy.  There is nothing embarrassing about admitting that the facts around covid continue to evolve as we get more evidence and that they'll adjust their policy accordingly.  I think they've created a policy far too rigid and will see too many players unnecessarily sitting out because of it.

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