Posted on 09/07/2021 9:30:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Georgia Bulldogs football team is more than 90% vaccinated against COVID-19 and yet they’re still dealing with the very harsh reality of positive tests from players and staff members that are fully vaccinated against the virus.
On Saturday night, No. 5 Georgia played its opening game of the 2021 regular season in Charlotte against No. 3 Clemson. Georgia’s defense thoroughly dominated Clemson’s offensive line, sacking quarterback D.J. Uiagalelei seven times and held Clemson’s offense to just 180 total yards.
It was a massive victory for the Bulldogs, but it was different news on Monday that grabbed everyone’s attention.
The football program is dealing with a COVID outbreak, and the positive tests are coming back for players that are fully vaccinated.
“I’ll be honest with you, I’m as concerned as I’ve ever been, because we have three or four guys out with COVID and we have a couple staff members that have been out with COVID here recently,” head coach Kirby Smart said. “For us, we’re at our highest spike. And people are talking about vaccinations, well these are people that are vaccinated. We’re talking about breakthroughs, and so that concerns you not only for the players on your team that are unvaccinated, that are playing and not playing, because we want everybody to be safe. But it concerns me for the players that are vaccinated that we could lose them.”
Smart did not say which players had tested positive, though he did discuss the positive test of Ron Courson — Georgia’s sports medicine director — who was forced to miss Saturday’s game in Charlotte.
“Ron’s doing good, he’s had a tough run,” Smart said. “Ron’s the hardest worker I’ve ever met in my life, and he’s never not been at this building on any day. Never not been here two days in a row, including spring break and off time, and it’s killing him, I think, to not be here. His health seems good and, hopefully, he’ll be back.”
Smart had previously praised Courson for his efforts in getting many players vaccinated.
“We are above 90% [vaccinations]. Ron [Courson] and his staff have done a tremendous job making sure that guys feel comfortable getting the vaccination,” Smart said. “We feel really comfortable with where we are. My goal is always to be 100%, because I think that it is the safest thing for our players. In terms of ‘back-to-normal,’ I would not say it is back-to-normal, because it is not exactly normal.”
Georgia plays its second game of the season against UAB on Saturday.
While the college football season started off with a bang this past weekend, COVID still had a small impact.
Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin was forced to miss his team’s first game against Louisville Monday night in Atlanta after testing positive over the weekend.
“I am disappointed to confirm that I have developed a break-through case of Covid and will not accompany our team to Atlanta,” Kiffin said in a statement. “I am grateful to be vaccinated and experiencing only mild symptoms. So much so, I debated over being tested, but I’m relieved that I did. I’m proud of our program’s commitment to vaccination, and as a result, there are currently no other cases to report or team members expected to miss the game.”
Kiffin previously stated that the Ole Miss program was “100% vaccinated.” The Rebels beat Louisville Monday night 43-24.
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Ron [Courson] and his staff have done a tremendous job making sure that guys feel comfortable getting the vaccination,”
Making them comfortable. Anyone on here ever get a flu shot and did you have to have someone make you feel comfortable about it?
Hmmmmm.......This sounds little like, bend over, take a deep breath and it’ll be over before you know it.
Folks want to take it. Take it. Stop busting ballz about those of us that haven’t or won’t. Given the fact that it apparently isn’t doing much for you or anyone else.
Oh wait, it’ll make my symptoms less severe IF I get The ‘Rona, again. Says who? Fauci? Walensky? Collins? Folks should believe them about as far as they could kick them at this point, especially after finding out that they DID in fact fund the research. Imagine that.
I am very happy this is very rare and not happening much.
I'll bet the coaches and the school are thinking more about their program's bottom line financially than they are about the safety of their players and staff.
VAXXED SUPER-SPREADER PLACEMARKER!
“Don’t shed on me bro!”
And that is the core of the issue right there. $cience has replaced Science in too many areas.
What is also interesting is that when these vaccinated people who contract COVID are hospitalized they are given monoclonal antibodies and other treatments as if the vaccine doesn't work or something like that. Very strange.
You think they don’t know? You are very generous.
It becomes clearer every day, why governments around the world, who gleefully took on healthcare responsibilities when it meant tax money, now want this virus/vax combo.
They really need to stop calling it a vaccine. It is a flu shot.
> $cience has replaced Science in too many areas. <
Yes. And when it comes to the vaccine, that’s true on BOTH sides of the issue. There are pharma scientists who tell us how great their vaccines are. Neutral observers they ain’t.
And then there are anti-vaxx scientists who make a living telling us how horrible the vaccines are. Dr, Sherri Tenpenny is a good example of that. Her website is filled with all sorts of anti-vaxx stuff to buy (DVDs, books, seminars, etc.). A neutral observer she ain’t.
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No, my wife has an Aunt that is 100% tears in her eyes certain that anyone without the Poke will DIE if they catch COVID and anyone that did take the Poke is iron clad safe against it. Which is really weird seeing how her husband passed away less than a week after getting jabbed. He had a history of TIAs and one happened almost immediately after the Poke.
She's so far in the tank that she can not even see any potential dots, let alone connect them.
And if you don't get the Jab, you may still get the disease. But you probably won't get the side effects of the Jab.
Published: 5:55 AM EDT May 21, 2021
Updated: 6:55 AM EDT May 21, 2021
"ATLANTA — The director of the CDC visited the Whitfield County Health Department in Dalton, Ga. to take a tour of the facility and talk with locals on the importance of receiving vaccination."
"The vaccine is working against the variants that we have circulating in the United States. And in general, something that wasn’t studied during the trials, if you get vaccinated, you can’t transfer it to somebody else. You can’t give the disease to somebody else. So in context, we said, you as an individual are safe if you are vaccinated and take off your mask."
"“We know that this vaccine is safe. We know that it’s effective," she said. "The science has indicated that it’s working just as well as it did in clinical trials. What we really want to do is get people vaccinated, so that we can put this pandemic behind us."
And the EUA's were issued solely on the statement the vaccines PREVENT infection with COVID.
Free beer day for all the players till they are ‘comfortable’. Oh yeah, before you leave here is a vaccination for you.
“I’m told* that the vaccine will not always prevent the disease. But it will [lessen] the symptoms in most people.”
How do they know it will lessen the symptoms. That’s a hypothesis put out there as truth in order to promote the “vax”, except it doesn’t seem to be working like a vax. Many unvaxxed people who contracted CCP virus also had mild symptoms.
Ehhh, not quite.
What no one bothered to tell those jabbed was that the fake vax was not designed to protect against re-infection. Since the virus is all over the place, the TWOT’s go out thinking they are safe.
In any case, why care? Fer Chrissakes, they are young and healthy. They have no chance of dying from this unless the drug tests they routinely take misses the crappola they just bought on the street — to party.
“Nearly 60% of gravely ill patients are fully vaccinated.”
Since this was published on 8/14, Israel cases have soared higher—in one of earth’s highest vax nations.
Are we at a tipping point? https://t.co/iIz9brpfZ2— Mary Beth Pfeiffer (@marybethpf) September 3, 2021
““I am grateful to be vaccinated and experiencing only mild symptoms. So much so, I debated over being tested, but I’m relieved that I did. I’m proud of our program’s commitment to vaccination,...” - Coach Kiffin
Coach actually sounds like he has to tow the party line ... doesn’t want to lose his decent paying job in an area with lower than national average standard of living. Why was he debating taking the test? Oh, and coach since you informed us you were vaxxed, give us the complete picture - are you considered obese? diabetic? were you wearing a mask at all times? etc
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