Sealake80":3hlt8bma said:
Pete who is a mature and fully grown man can make his own decisions. Pete should sue. We all should. NFL is a joke. Your employers most likely are too! Mask up!
The subject of this thread IS highly political. Period. So stick it where it belongs. Seriously. Stick it where it belongs.
Actually it's not political. Viruses don't do politics. They are simply contagious.
The NFL has already had to reschedule several games in order to cope with teams with Covid cases, and the season is teetering on a knife edge as to whether or not it will make it through to the Super Bowl, or be cancelled before we get that far.
If the NFL mandated full haz mat suits and drive players around in hermetically-sealed buses in order to keep the season alive, that's their prerogative, because their one and only goal is to protect the season to at least get the television revenue and keep the product on the air. And the players would go along with it, opt out as they can for this season, or be fined for violating league rules - even temporary league rules.
The NFL is doing the best they can to protect players from infection, and wearing masks is a known effective measure to contain the spread. Not to stop the wearer from getting the virus, but to stop them from passing it on, so that the NFL don't have to reschedule games and potentially lose the season.
For anyone under movement restrictions due to lockdown, or unemployed, this kind of entertainment can be necessary to maintaining mental health. It's cathartic, and it takes the mind off of problems for a few hours.
The NFL athletes are in great physical condition so they should be resilient to the virus, but the opposite is true for their performance. They USE all of that lung capacity to get the oxygen they need to perform. AS Von Miller said, "Taking 17 days off and then trying to get back into it, I really feel it. I still feel my lungs trying to get back in shape. It’s just all the wear and tear that it puts on your lungs." For some, that wear-and-tear is permanent lung damage. Do we want to take the risk of Lockett or Metcalf or Carson or Wilson being out for 17 days, and having a slow comeback hindered by permanent lung damage? They might never be the same.
Nothing at all about that is political. It's entirely about the product and being able to deliver a full season so that the Seahawks can win the Super Bowl again, which we won't do if Wilson is hooked up to a ventilator.