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Mandates Meet the Woke: Dozens of NBA Players Refuse the Shot
PJ Media ^ | 10/02/2021 | Rick Moran

Posted on 10/02/2021 8:44:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The NBA season is close upon us and there are some interesting developments that are blowing up the conventional wisdom on those refusing to get vaccinated.

The League says that 5-10 percent of players have yet to be vaccinated. This presents a big problem because most major cities where NBA teams play have vaccine mandates that prevent players from participating unless they’ve been jabbed.

The League has taken the position that if players won’t play, their pay will be docked. NBA players are paid by the game in most cases so this could get serious.

After spending most of the last few months portraying those refusing to get vaccinated as anti-science, Kool-aid-drinking MAGA supporters, the media is now stuck. How do they stereotype mostly black NBA players who refuse to get vaccinated?

Especially a player like the Orlando Magic’s Jonathan Isaac. Mr. Isaac, who has already contracted COVID-19, wonders why he has to get jabbed if the antibodies in his system are already protecting him?

Nobody had an answer for him because there is none.

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nba; vaccination; vaccinemandate
The quote from NBA Player Jonathan Isaac which NO OFFICIAL in the NBA has any scientific answer for:

I understand that the vaccine would help if you have COVID, you’ll be able to have less symptoms from contracting it. But with me having COVID in the past and having antibodies, with my current age group and physical fitness level, it’s not necessarily a fear of mine. Taking the vaccine, like I said, it would decrease my chances of having a severe reaction, but it does open me up to the albeit rare chance but the possibility of me having an adverse reaction to the vaccine itself. I don’t believe that being unvaccinated means infected or being vaccinated means uninfected. You can still catch COVID with or with not having the vaccine. I would say honestly the craziness of it all in terms of not being able to say that it should be everybody’s fair choice without being demeaned or talked crazy to doesn’t make one comfortable to do what said person is telling them to do.


1 posted on 10/02/2021 8:44:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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And Stephen Miller points out the NBA's conundrum.
I don’t personally agree with his vaccine stance. I myself contracted COVID last year and still chose to get vaccinated. However there is a deeper meaning to what he’s saying that goes beyond ‘Bill Gates is trying to microchip everyone.’ It stands against what the media and the Biden administration are attempting to do by shaming and other-ing anyone who opts not to get vaccinated or can’t because of medical reasons. And that’s before we even get into the dark history African Americans and vaccinations, which has no doubt played a role in lower vaccination rates among that demographic.

Isaac is rejecting the atmosphere of division, the idea that anyone who’s unvaccinated is deserving of scorn from the desks at CNN, as well as ostracization from polite society by employers, friends and family. Division is the lingua franca of the national media — and Isaac isn’t speaking it. Legitimate medical diagnoses are being lumped in with QAnon Facebook conspiracists. That leads nowhere good.

2 posted on 10/02/2021 8:46:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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3 posted on 10/02/2021 8:47:49 PM PDT by datura (The voice that brought you peace has nothing left to say.)
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4 posted on 10/02/2021 8:51:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

While I agree that there are no microchips, realistically there do not need to be.

What if each “mRna” lot codes the serial number of that lot into the spike protein itself ?

what if you shed the spike proteins which can then be read using a scanner ?

What if the Israelis are doing this already with their project Omega ?

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/netanyahu-coronavirus-infection-rates-low-still-work-to-be-done-648498

think about the implications


5 posted on 10/02/2021 8:55:38 PM PDT by algore ( )
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Obviously tabakee chewin MAGA hat wearing racist white supremacist science deniers....

...colonized their minds...


6 posted on 10/02/2021 8:56:52 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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RE: Obviously tabakee chewin MAGA hat wearing racist white supremacist science deniers....

The Orlando Magic Player Jonathan Isaac is also one of the players who refused to kneel during the playing of the National Anthem. He very clearly stated that he differentiates between “Black Lives Matter” as an idea that he firmly believes in with “Black Lives Matter” as an organization which does not represent him as a black man.

Clearly a Player who uses his brains to think rationally. If only most black folks could think like him ....


7 posted on 10/02/2021 9:04:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Isn’t Isaac the one who wouldn’t take a knee? If so, he has a lot going for him!

What a conundrum. Schadenfreude! NBA woke BLM SJWs, but don’t want a vax for a minimally dangerous disease.


8 posted on 10/02/2021 9:07:43 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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RE: Isn’t Isaac the one who wouldn’t take a knee? If so, he has a lot going for him!

I just mentioned it in Post #7 above.


9 posted on 10/02/2021 9:09:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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They can’t pressure NBA players to take the vaccine because that would be racist to do so lol. Good. Even though I got the vaccine myself.


10 posted on 10/02/2021 9:29:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Simple solution: Move all NBA games to China, and rely on US broadcasting revenues to sustain the profits. Let the stadium vendors rely on local welfare to replace lost wages and profits. That avoids all local mandates for vaccination.

As long as the Chinese go along with it.

11 posted on 10/02/2021 11:11:47 PM PDT by Bernard (The very best scientific articles always contain this phrase: “My personal intuition has been…”)
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BEYOND DUMP TRUMP
9 MINUTE VIDEO
https://www.brighteon.com/99cc36a2-f553-4adf-9770-58d1daaa2477
THE MARXIST DEMS BROUGHT COVID HERE FOR MORE THAN SIMPLY GETTING RID OF TRUMP, AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THEIR CORRUPTION. COVID WAS JUST STEP ONE OF A FAR MORE INSIDIOUS


12 posted on 10/02/2021 11:33:54 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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Vast majority of NBA players are blacks.
Maybe they are aware of the federal gub mints history of using blacks to experiment drugs on???
Blacks and Indians of course.


13 posted on 10/03/2021 3:39:16 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Dementia Joe and the Whore, leaders of the Free world. ( F-you dementia Joe.))
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