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Vaccines and footballers

Should professional footballers be expected to take a Covid19 vaccine?

  • Yes

    Votes: 50 72.5%

  • No

    Votes: 19 27.5%
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I'd be very surprised if Premiership players weren't regularly getting jabs far more "experimental" than the Covid jab that the players couldn't care less about, and have no idea about what they are and their the long term implications.

It's just anti-covid jab paranoia for idiots.

Should be compulsory for the sake of the squad. The Club's Insurance company should demand it if nobody else.
 
chrismpw said:
I agree - but I'm also against compulsory stuff.

There's no tacit vaccine passport (which there shouldn't be) but me and the missus have to "apply to get a letter to say we've both been double jabbed" before we can go on a cruise (that we've already paid for).

This is the way of a tory government- they slyly slink away from a vote-losing policy and don't make something mandatory because they get their cronies in the free market to do the dirty work for them. But the morons still vote for them, gleefully waving their Daily Mail subscriptions.
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Dont make it compulsory, no.

Just tell any footballer that if they dont have a vaccine they dont play.
 

By the way, on a related issue: take a look around the stadiums of Italy and France etc: no 50K or 60k capacity crowds crammed in...barely attended.

What's happening here will not last much longer as we head into autumn and winter, be certain of that.
 
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Tennis is struggling especially re vaccinating the players. Chardy news didnt help the cause.

www.news24.com

Tennis veteran Chardy suspends season after reaction to Covid jab | Sport

Veteran French player Jeremy Chardy will suspend his season after suffering a debilitating reaction to a Covid-19 vaccine, he told AFP on Thursday.
www.news24.com www.news24.com
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Some people need reminding that Covid-19 is not FDA approved and there are no assurances about long term side effects.

Anything that would mitigate the effects of Covid (i.e. the vaccine) has to be better than a full exposure to the virus, even if there are side effects in a small number of people, which will be not as bad as a reaction to Covid itself.
 

Nobody, in any profession, should be made to have any medical procedure, including vaccinations, against their wishes.

For people to actually have to leave professions and/or jobs, due to not having the jab, is a disgrace imo.

If you want the vaccine you get it, if you don't, for whatever reason that's personal to you, then you don't - it's that simple.

No need for the vitriol and derogatory comments either.
 
NathDogg said:
Nobody, in any profession, should be made to have any medical procedure, including vaccinations, against their wishes.

For people to actually have to leave professions and/or jobs, due to not having the jab, is a disgrace imo.

If you want the vaccine you get it, if you don't, for whatever reason that's personal to you, then you don't - it's that simple.

No need for the vitriol and derogatory comments either.
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They aren't being made to do anything in my scenario. A footballer can make a choice to do what they want; then a football club can decide what they want to do about anyone not getting one.

No coercion.
 
davek said:
They aren't being made to do anything in my scenario. A footballer can make a choice to do what they want; then a football club can decide what they want to do about anyone not getting one.

No coercion.
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Correct.

You'd like to assume that the players would be doing everything possible to reduce the effects, recovery time and fitness hit that sufferers have due to a Covid infection.
..and so would Everton's Player Insurance.
 
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davek said:
They aren't being made to do anything in my scenario. A footballer can make a choice to do what they want; then a football club can decide what they want to do about anyone not getting one.

No coercion.
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Aren't you saying if the players don't get a vaccine, then the club's tell them they don't play?
 

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