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The Pittsburgh Steelers announced that they will monitor the team’s vaccination status using yellow bracelets to mark players who have yet to receive their COVID shot.
Players are instructed to wear the bracelets during training camps and for the foreseeable future. Head coach Mike Tomlin was asked about the team’s progress with vaccines and how Pittsburgh can benefit from the new bracelets.
“We really kind of moved on, to be honest with you,” said Tomlin. “That’s why we wanted to be so proactive about addressing it, so we’re not spending a whole bunch of time thinking or talking about it. So, it’s a non-issue for us, thankfully, due to the efforts and willingness of our guys. We’re focused on football.”
According to the AP, 85% of the Steelers roster has been vaccinated, with the new system in place to encourage the remaining players to get vaccinated.
The Steelers aren’t the only NFL team implementing the new ruling. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced that they will be using a similar system leading up to the start of the new season, marking unvaccinated players with red bracelets.
Buccaneers running back Leonard Fournette jokingly admitted on Twitter that he remains hesitant about the mandatory vaccination ruling, but he then deleted the incriminating tweet.
Commissioner Roger Goodell and the league announced that unvaccinated players league-wide will be fined $14,650 for any COVID guideline infractions.
The vaccine has been estimated to have killed 47,000 people and that’s just through one reporting system. Apparently there are over ten different reporting systems so that 47,000 number is just the tip of the iceberg. The virus itself has 600,000 people but a lot of them are died with COVID not from COVID. This whole thing is a complete sham and it blows my mind that millions of healthy people will blindly take this vaccine at the governments word that’s it’s safe. Give me a break. This is and has been about control, eventually leading to a social credit score. The cool kids vs the losers like high school all over again but this time backed and enforced by the government. And people are just willingly sitting back and taking this shit. Crazy times
You’re out of your mind. Three people are suspected to have died from the vaccine in the US. Out of almost 200 million. It’s proven to be one of the safest vaccines ever put to the public.
You are out of your mind, you clearly don’t know anything, so don’t spout off like you do. You can’t trust any “reporting” from any government agency. We still don’t have verified deaths actually caused by covid. Why, because of of lies, misrepresentation. Only a complete idiot would touting some number I believe you pulled out of thin air. The White House staff has yet to be fully vaccinated and they said this weekend there is no mandate for them to be… why? Why? Didn’t they also say last week that the unvaccinated were killing people?
It’s not pulled out of anything. Three people have died from blood clots after getting the vaccine. Those are the only verified deaths that can be contributed to the vaccine. Period. That’s a fact.
More than 99% of people dying of Covid are unvaccinated. That is also a fact.
Where has it been “proven” to be one of the safest vaccines ever? Dr. Fauci and the CDC saying so? If it’s so safe why is half the country obviously not convinced? I guess you’re accusing 150 million people of being “insane”? Maybe you need
To read up more.
I’m not saying they’re insane. If you don’t want the vaccine then don’t take it. That’s your choice. What I’m saying is that out of almost 200 million people only 3 have died as a cause of the vaccine. That is an insanely safe vaccine.
A new system of public shaming for healthy players who don’t want or need to put excessive chemicals in their body? Wow.
George Orwell here we come
What purpose does “wearing a yellow bracelet” serve in Football? Is that like a QB wearing a red jersey? Do the yellow bracelet guys use a separate locker room and showers? Do the bracelets ward off evil spirits? … … … Does Nancy Pelosi’s husband own stock in the company that makes the yellow bracelets ??????
If members of Congress had to wear bracelets to signify medical procedures, Nancy Pelosi would have them going from her wrist and up to her shoulder…
Vaccine, Botox, facelift, dentures, ….
You can’t catch botox from being around people who had botox.
Hey Mr government stooge, how do vaccinated people catch covid from unvaccinated people?
And I’ll add on to that good retort Dennis. IF vaccinated people DO catch covid (and they do), then why on earth do we keep calling it a vaccine? It’s not a vaccine if it doesn’t vaccinate you. If it’s not classified as a vaccine you can’t get all the backing and special consideration, so that’s another questionable act. See how this constant gas lighting shell game might make half the world less distrust what they’re being told when the facts don’t align?
Being vaccinated doesn’t mean you can’t catch the virus. No one has said that. It just means you will very likely not get ill from the virus. Which is why more than 99% of people dying from Covid are unvaccinated.
Makes it easier for those who are there to enforce the rules to tell which players are vaccinated. Nothing more to it. Just like you get a bracelet when you go to a festival so it makes it easier to tell who has paid and who is sneaking in.
You Gestapo or just a brownshirt fanatic?
You think when you get a stamp after having paid to get into a club makes them gestapo? The hell does that have to do with anything?
Stop watching the NFL.
yep
How much will vaccinated players get fined for covid infractions? Just a couple weeks ago 6 Yankees players who had been vaccinated tested positive and forced a game to be canceled. What’s the difference? Again, what a player’s union they’ve got there in the nfl to sit back and allow this. Might as well be an extension of Goodell’s office.
The White House doesn’t have a mandate. They aren’t all vaccinated at the White House. So cut the crap. Get it if you want, don’t if you don’t want it. If you have the vaccine, why are you concerned if someone else doesn’t? Because you have either, control issues, or you have mental issues to deal with, apparently your fear of life is debilitating.
Please explain why it’s perfectly okay for thousands of migrants to come across the border & never even get a Covid test. Goodness knows what some of them are carrying.
Exactly right great point
100%. The absurd open borders from 3rd world countries tells you that I government understands it’s not a crisis.
Or —> they want it to increase so they can have a ‘reason’ to lock everything down again. #GreatReset
Sounds like nazi Germany identifying a certain group of people they deemed a problem smfh
Maybe put the name of another criminal on their helmets to keep COVID away