I firmly believe that the distrust of the government and media combined with the lack of transparency regarding COVID and the vaccines have a huge impact on decision making regarding getting vaccinated.Csl312 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 8:32 pm It's seems lost in this conversation that there are more than just healthy young men employed by the NFL. There are plenty of older people on training staff, coaches, equipment managers, even cleaning staff etc. So theres that too.
Also lost in this conversation is sure it's your choice whether or not to be vaccinated and it should be. But I don't really get why doing something that will protect your community and the most vulnerable members. Asthma was mentioned earlier. Believe it or not there are nfl players with asthma too! It's strange to me that if this were happening in the 1950s people would like up to do something that would be in the best interest of their neighbors, community, and country. Now people who often are the same group that seems to want America to return to the "good old days" of that same Era are those who refuse to take action to help their neighbors out.
Basically none of my post is relevant to fantasy football. Sometimes real life is more important though.
Look at the numbers you can find - the mortality rate for COVID among males 30 or younger is .00256%, but all you can find from the CDC regarding vaccine deaths is a .0017%, but even that is based on the number of doses and not the number of people receiving the shots, meaning the mortality rate is likely significantly higher - most probably greater than the mortality rate for 30 and under males from COVID itself. This is even more disquieting when there is no demographic breakdown in the vaccine deaths, but there are allusions in the CDC report that the vaccine negatively impacts under 30 males at a much greater rate than others. Now, neither number is statistically significant but don’t you think that fully educating those getting vaccinated would be important, as would making fully public all the other health hazards of the vaccines to under 30 people rather than putting forth the false narrative that the vaccines are completely safe?
Then there are all the anecdotal events where COVID was listed as a contributing factor in a person’s death when the death was clearly due to something completely separate like a car accident, or the guidelines for assigning COVID related deaths being so fuzzy that the conclusions in an unknown number of cases can be considered nothing less than subjective. There’s also plenty of data showing that many times more people actually have contracted COVID but that the symptoms were so slight or even nonexistent that it was not reported as COVID, meaning the mortality rate could be much lower than what is actually being reported. There is no accounting for all of this in the data being presented to people, and you have to go on a very thorough search to find all this information.
And we all know for a fact there there is absolutely no data on any long term health hazards since the vaccines simply have not been around long enough.
If I’m a young male in optimal physical condition and I’ve educated myself fully, there would logically and legitimately be some question of whether I’m putting myself at greater risk getting vaccinated rather than just taking my chances unvaccinated.
I do know one thing - if you want more universally vaccinated people, there’s going to have to be a lot more trust involved. Right now, the trust in anything on a federal government level and from mass media is clearly broken, and rightfully so. Complete candor from both would go a long ways in healing that rift.