Well, He Got My Attention

Stacy McCain, Gosh, How Can I Get Readers to Pay Attention to the NFL’s COVID-19 Policy?

OK, you got my attention, now what?

Rachel Bush is an outspoken critic of the NFL’s COVID-19 policy. Perhaps you’ve never heard of her, and I had no idea who she was until this morning, when I started researching the upcoming game this Sunday between the New England Patriots and Buffalo Bills. In their earlier meeting — the Dec. 6 “wind tunnel” Monday Night Football game at Buffalo’s Highmark Stadium — the Patriots only threw three passes in a 14-10 victory over the Bills. The outcome of Sunday’s rematch will almost certainly decide the AFC East title, so I’ve been reading all the pregame coverage, including the news that Buffalo wide receiver Cole Beasley has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss the game Sunday.

This led to some controversy, because Beasley is an outspoken anti-vaxxer and, because he’s unvaccinated, NFL rules require him to be regularly tested for the virus. So he got back a positive test, even though he was having only mild symptoms. Meanwhile, one of Beasley’s teammates, Bills offensive guard Jon Feliciano, had to go to the emergency room with a COVID-19 case, even though Feliciano is vaccinated. This prompted Beasley to write on Instagram: “Just to be clear Covid is not keeping me out of this game. The rules are. Vaxxed players are playing with Covid every week now because they don’t test.”

Which brings us back to outspoken critic Rachel Bush.
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You see, Rachel Bush is the wife of Buffalo Bills safety Jordan Poyer, and she started sounding off about the NFL’s COVID-19 rules last summer.

None of this makes sense. Time to put a foot down. All these vaccinated athletes out here getting covid!! Instead of doing the logical thing and removing any restrictions against unvaccinated players they have done the exact opposite! Makes ZERO sense. Enough is enough.

Although I agree with her, the NFL is a business (albeit a business awarded the status of a legal monopoly), and has the right to set its own WuFlu policy. That said, I haven't watched at lot of NFL football in the last couple year. Colin Kaepernick might have had something to do with that. Hell, our closest team doesn't even have a proper name.

On the other hand, there's Rachel Bush. 

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