Post by Rey Kahuka on Dec 14, 2021 15:47:34 GMT
We need to ask ourselves how seriously we still want to take this, and for how long. There will always be new variants, it will supplant the flu as the seasonal illness, which we have vaccines to combat. So how many years in the future will we be testing for covid as if it's the black plague?
Hey, I get wanting to keep the illness from spreading in your locker room (or any place of business), but we need to keep things in perspective. It isn't March 2020 anymore, there are solutions to these problems that don't include shutting the world down or acting as if anyone infected is on their deathbed. It's going to be shitty the day a superstar in any sport gets held out of a championship game because he tested positive despite being vaccinated and asymptomatic.
It's still relatively early going for this, but the real game changer is gonna be the so-called 'Covid pill' or some real deal treatment, which by all accounts is coming soon.
And it's gonna be a shittier day when some superstar has to retire from long haul covid or a huge chunk of the roster gets sick. But this also is only new because covid is new. But if your middle linebacker is sick with the flu you wouldn't want him coming into the facility either. When the Giants had an outbreak of Staph infection a few years ago they quarantined the player that got it, deep cleaned/disinfected their buildinfs, tested every member of the staff and player on roster, and moved their operations off-site until they could assess the safety of their facility.
You take the reasonable precautions for the situation. The way they're doing things now still makes sense for where we are. I don't know what's going in the team meetings with masks and air filtration and whatnot, but sequestering players that test positive, for the time being, makes sense. If a low ankle sprain was highly contagious then any team in the league would want to quarantine anyone with a low ankle sprain until they had a better handle on it.