The NFL will stop mandating weekly COVID-19 tests for asymptomatic vaccinated players

[ericc]

The new protocols will take effect next week

Unvaccinated players will continue to test daily

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The revised NFL-NFLPA COVID-19 protocols will end regular weekly testing of asymptomatic, fully vaccinated individuals. A major shift amidst the emergence of the Omicron variant and over 150 (mostly asymptomatic) players testing positive this past week.<br><br>From today’s memo: <a href="https://t.co/9uMn92dfNp">pic.twitter.com/9uMn92dfNp</a></p>&mdash; Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1472289275274469376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >December 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


"These new protocols will result in everyone in the NFL coming into contact with COVID," epidemiologist Zach Binney said.

[Mr KLC]

It's about damn time that one of these leagues said, "Enough is enough." Most of them probably wouldn't know they had it if they weren't continually tested.

[MinnesotaFats]

Whole thing has been 1 huge con

Biggest wealth transfer in history of the world...over 10 TRILLION DOLLARS,

All on the backs of a bad fversion of the flu, liberal politics and a complete ignorance to Representative government. Not 1 fukking LAW was passed to implement the election rule changes or these mandates, yet the 1% got themselves $10 TRILLION dollars because poor ass urban blacks and a bunch of cuck white boys felt scared by the daily news cycle.

[edawg]

Wasn't asymptomatic spread the reason for the masks, jabs, and isolation? Now the jabbed are the "super spreaders" when are people going to understand they have been lied to for greed and power and nothing else?

[Mr KLC]

I wish the NFL had made this decision earlier in the season. When the season is over, and no players die, the general public will see what a farce this fear has been. Of course, the media will attempt to report that a player's second cousin's, roommate's librarian died and could have been saved if the NFL had kept their protocols.

[seaborneq]

Players in all sports should have been playing throughout. No one cares about the collateral damage of second hand Covid spreads. Most never know who they got it from anyway. Carry on NFL. Messed up this week but hopefully better in the future weeks.