Posted on 07/26/2021 8:40:15 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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.
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What? No yellow stars of David sewed to their jerseys?
Do they also have to wear a mask during practices and games?
My company accepted my medical exemption but I have to wear an N95 mask every day at work to keep my job. Only the non-vaccinated have to wear the masks...So, we wear the Scarlet Letter!
Do they give you oxygen during the day? That’s horrible.
The Left always uses fear-mongering to justify more government authoritarianism.
Climate change, systemic racism, global pandemic - you name it.
The proof that this is true is the fact that their “solutions” NEVER work.
They don’t want them to work, because if they worked, the crisis would be averted - the fear would dissipate - and that is the very last thing they want to happen.
Look at every Leftist “solution” and try to find a single one that didn’t make things worse. That is because they want to make things worse.
Welfare, affirmative action, wealth redistribution and BLM have all made race relations and minority outcomes worse.
Fossil fuel restrictions and other energy regulations have all been bad for the environment - exporting energy production and unsafe manufacturing to the very worst polluters on the planet.
The “pandemic” was over before it started, so the Left just keeps moving the goal post. Now the crisis is evil vaccine-hesitant monsters who Biden says are killing people by being unvaccinated. They need to be forced to wear bracelets so that vaccinated people can steer clear of their taint.
Violates HIPAA..
No, it doesn’t. HIPAA applies to health organizations and how they handle your medical data. I don’t think the Steelers, or any NFL team, could be considered a health organization.
“It was created primarily to modernize the flow of healthcare information, stipulate how personally identifiable information maintained by the healthcare and healthcare insurance industries should be protected from fraud and theft, and address limitations on healthcare insurance coverage.”
Nothing about private organizations.
Now, it does violate your 1st, 4th and 5th amendment rights to privacy.
The bracelets should be multi-colored just like the LGBTQ flag. This is the NFL after all.
Hmmm...
Hopefully the unvaccinated players have studied the history of the last group of people who had to display a yellow warning-insignia...
Yellow bracelets and yellow stars.
No tackles of yellow bracelets and no one wanting to touch the ball after an unclean touches it. Cool, sounds like the Steelers will win the Super Bowl.
Only $26.99 at the souvenir booth.
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