You misunderstand. This has absolutely nothing to do with the fans. Nobody actually cares if they end up at the game. This is about politics, lawsuits and PR. Mostly politics, because at some point owners are going to want money and tax breaks for that new stadium.
This.
Not sure what you mean by familiar with the ownership groups. Do I know them personally? No. Do I think they are aware of how business and politics work in their state? Yes. And, guess how it works in the red states? There are literally red states threatening to take funds away from schools if they make them wear mask. Red states that never had a mask requirement. You think those states are going to be ok with the NFL saying something like that? You think the NFL wants to upset the people that will finance their next stadium? On the off chance they actually make you get a vaccine, there will be some huge loopholes.
My thoughts on each of those:
I heard yesterday that Garth Brooks is requiring masks for all attendees at all his concerts. No questions asked, no exceptions for being vaxxed, etc. Wow! That is an epic misread of his "fans, audience". I wonder if this was his idea, or if someone else is driving it (arena owners, cities, etc)
Not sure who he works with for his concerts, but Live Nation just announce they would leave requirements up to the artist. Live Nation is going to require their employees to be vaccinated though. My guess is they will see how many artist require it. If a lot do, they will make it a requirement for fans. If most don't, they will continue to let the artist decide.
Well, that would seem to go against most studies. Not surprising that managers who have to be in the office would say that though. I think you're going to see even more people being allowed to work from home permanently, because people are actively looking for jobs where you can work from home. It's starting to become the new required benefit that has to be offered to remain competitive. The new variant has already started to change some companies plans for coming back to work.
Managers don't have to be in the office, I think that's kind of an archaic thought. More choose to be than lower level workers of course but it isn't mandatory at most tech companies. They are just the ones who are evaluating their team's performance and deciding if it's working remotely. For a ton of tech jobs, you sorta have to be there with your team. Ask some Project Managers at Google (I know 2) and they'll tell you it's been much more difficult remotely.
I can see this is where it is headed, and a case can be made for everyone above a certain age having the antibodies, I suppose.
You'd have anti-vax morons having Covid parties trying to get each other sick.
Consequences of stupidity ranks pretty high on my list of you love to see it moments.
It's already happened, so it wouldn't be new. Not sure if it resulted in a lot of deaths though. When I was younger, I remember hearing about parents having pox parties when they heard about a neighbor's kid getting chickenpox. No one seemed to care about those parties. I guess the times they are a changin.
Are you not?
I mean, that's not exactly apples to apples but if you're saying that if someone is standing in the middle of traffic and they get hit by said traffic then yeah, kinda had that one coming.
I believe the mandates must be unconstitutional, be it for employment, military, dining, entertainment, school etc. It seems lawsuits on each of these fronts must be coming.Awful. But the real question is are they letting folks out of their service commitment if they refuse the vax? They should.
This will do great damage to our military. I think Uncle Sam is forgetting who is the most likely type of person to enlist. This will cause numbers to drop substantially. Yay America!
Defense secretary to mandate COVID vaccine for US military by Sept. 15
The Pentagon is requiring members of the U.S. military to get vaccinated against coronavirus.www.foxnews.com
Vaccine mandates for military is no where near being a new thing.
I know it's anecdotal, but that whole thing could have been avoided. It didn't have to happen.
The lack of testing quality & infrastructure is disappointing.
The British are... not coming. They throw-up the white flag!
Delta variant has wrecked hopes of herd immunity, warn scientists
The delta variant has wrecked any chance of herd immunity, a panel of experts including the head of the Oxford vaccine team said as they called for an end to mass testing so Britain can start to live with Covid.www.yahoo.com
