RIP 2021 NFL Season
 

140 players on COVID list

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/n...on-covid-list/

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to plague the NFL. Since the start of last week, 213 players have tested positive for COVID-19, according to NFL Network's Tom Pelissero. That's almost 10% of the league.

The 2021 NFL season is DOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!

P.S. I'm going to bed. I will read all my hate mail in the morning.

Nah, there's money involved. If the players have to play on mobile ventilators, the league will make it happen.

The NFL is going to push on with whatever is left to throw out there these next few weeks. I wouldn't worry about any kind of shutdown.

It's not a plague. Just ****ing end testing.

and that folks, is the thread

No chance in hell but the champ will look like a paper champ. Too many teams have lost games from players being on covid.

They’ve scaled back testing for asymptomatic players. Logical next step would be to allow them to play if positive but asymptomatic.

Omicron is rampant but pretty mild.

I just don't think they are going to make it. Pray for them.

They screwed up when they made the schedule. They should have had the 17th game, i.e. the KC vs GB game scheduled for the end of the season. Then, they could simply cancel that game for every team and move games that have an abundance of players out into that spot. But, they wanted the most impactful games at the end of the season, so they didn't do it. Now, here we are, teams jockeying for position, or just to get into the playoffs, and they're going into games short 15-20% or more of they're roster. That is beyond stupid.

We need another NFL COVID thread.

Moar

That's the last time I start a thread when I am stoned.

FYP

In a sane society, people would continue without issue. But in a society that thinks this variant is smallpox and the plague combined (two diseases that actually killed off young people like crazy), we get panic.

Trust the science!

RIP 2021 NFL Season
 

Lit up every room it entered and never met a stranger

RIP

Exactly

WBF!!!

We have lots of Chiefs COVID threads, but not many general NFL COVID threads l

Should be treated like any other illness at this point.

As long as they closely monitor the pressure in Brady's tires I'm okay with it.

Mass non compliance is the only way to end it.

Lamar Jackson was sick enough with a non-COVID illness to miss the Bears game last month, and yet that requires no additional quarantine/transmission mitigation measures and meanwhile players who are asymptomatic with COVID are being put through arbitrary restrictions/thresholds to return to play.

It’s ridiculous.

Lol ok

If only that simple.

bad link or the deleted the article?

Also, as many have said, too much money involved and the league doesn't give a **** about a single one of them so they will force them to play in coffins if they have to

It's just like any other illness that killed 5 million people in a year.

If it got bad you could just pause the season for a week. Super Bowl is going to be messed up anyway. They need to move it out of LA ASAP

Rimmers on Covid list, thought he was injured

They ought to stop the season now, get teams healthy and roll with the playoffs in 24 days as scheduled. Those 7 teams in each conference who currently hold playoff spots are in.

It is the NFLPA that will not agree to that.

As of this date which teams are you referring to other than Green Bay with 1 game?

Who is Rimmers? I think you mean Remmers.

That is never going to happen it would cost them too much money on a lot of different fronts. It would also alienate way too many fans.

God Dam I hate China.

I would be good with that, too. Or just delay the games coming up a week or two.

NFLPA prez said today that the NFL wanted to cancel the 3 games this week. And not pay the players.

If the NFL was really concerned about health, why allow fans in the stadiums?

It isn't surprising to anybody that the NFL cares about the cash above all else

this keeps going like this, no way Cali allows 80K in a stadium and all the packed parties to occur. It sucked here last year. They only had an outdoor thing. We had to have our SB party at an outdoor minor league stadium.

Regardless of the rhetoric, it all comes down to the hospitals filling up. In a sane society we’d have 95% vaxxed, the hospitals would be under control and we would be going on with our lives.

The hospitals are full? I missed that memo.

In some places yeah. People can’t get elective treatment. Having to shop all over for a bed for some really important procedure. Instances have been posted in the covid thread here and I’ve seen plenty elsewhere.

Because all those vaxxed people sure aren't getting sick. :banghead:

The only problem is players who aren't even sick are testing positive. So much less testing is needed. Too easy.

People have been packing stadiums/arenas… outdoors and indoors for months now and there have been no significant outbreak to-date linked to attendance at sporting events, including with Omicon.

Well good news this far is hospitalization rates are still way down with this variant. There was a study (meta ofc) showed that hospitalization with this variant was 80% less than even Delta.

Let hope that news is true and can be replicated in more hard data.

The problem is.. there is no data to support the idea that ANY measure you take at this point is going to slow the spread of Omicron. You are just pissing in the wind to make yourself "feel" in control. (not "YOU" in particular but it sounds pretentious to say "oneself")

who's the blockhead naming these viruses? i took greek for a year. i don't remember a damn thing except the alphabet. omicron does not follow delta. epsilon follows delta. nut hugging egg head morons.

Xi are getting close to the reason….

Boosted people aren't getting sick at all, and if you check any hospital covid ward - it's 85-95% unvaxxed.

Yeah I never said anything about stopping the spread of Omicron. My point is that if hospitals stop filling, all the preventative measures that annoy all of us will stop.

In the reddest state or the bluest state - ultimately if the hospitals got stressed, measures were taken - if not by the state, then by the country or city. All the rest was just rhetoric on both sides.

It's unfortunate that lies like this are allowed on this site, but don't really know how to combat it

I presume a thread ban is in order?

Don’t worry.

MODS are about to come in here and ban him for turning this into another DC thread.

Wait, so in your minds, this is ok:

While this reply to the above is worthy of being banned:

What is the reasoning behind that? Why is the first thing fine but the reply bannable?

Just because you want something to be a lie, doesn't make it a lie. Every stat I've seen for boosted looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/LJlQl2N.png

https://www.mass.gov/doc/covid-19-ca...setts/download

https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/i...080-io9qz5.jpg

https://www.kark.com/news/state-news...rnado-cleanup/

https://www.kark.com/wp-content/uplo...vax-status.jpg

Feel free to provide actual data to the contrary.

oh ok got it so 140 players have mild headaches and the sniffles. terrible

88 in the user name never fails.

This is a stupid thread to begin with. God forbid we let data and statistics about vaccine effectiveness pollute our thread about... RIP NFL Season. I'm tattling to a mod!!!

Who are you honoring with “99”, Kendrell Bell?

His Chiefs career was about as decrepit as your posting acumen so that’s a fitting # for you.

Careful. If you point out that vaccines are not stopping the spread of covid you will get banned. :D

The mods don't like different opinions or data when it comes to covid.

Pretty sure the guy who owns this place is good. :thumb:

Even the last person on earth should by now know that the covid vaccine does not prevent infection for a long time, it’s no surprise that countries like Israel plan to introduce a 4th booster shot. The reason for this madness is that western countries over the last 30-40 years have reduced massively the workforce in the health sector, reduced salaries and depend heavily on foreign workers for doing the job in e.g. nursing homes. We would not have these kind of development with better health care infrastructure.

Omicron sounds cool. The next one will be Armegadron. Ominous. Scary. News programs will love it.

Loxdrn will follow Omicron.

Nice that Omicron is in my auto correct. Omicron.

At this point it is. AIDS used to be a death sentence

Talked to my sister in law who is a person. She said that the hospitals are full.

Are they filled with NFL players? :doh!:

What a dumb thread.

In a sea of dumb threads, this one floats to the top. Like a turd.

Amazing.

No matter what anybody tells you we still don't know the long term mortality data for Omicron.

I hope you're right but we're not nearly there yet.

There. Fixed.

Anti vax horseshit is not welcome

But pushing the pandemic and the variants are?

Okay.

And what I stated wasn't anti vaxx. It's fact.

Nothing he said was anti-vax so don’t label it as such. It’s just a statement of fact.

What if the vaccine k-k-k-kills you one day? Yeah that's the same thing as wondering about the long term mortality of a variant of a coronavirus that has killed over 5m people and counting.

It's antivax horseshit and you ****ing know it

It’s not worth engaging you in this emotional state.

Don't you guys get tired of the same arguments over and over and over again for 18 months? :shake: