Unfortunately those who go against the political recommendations are crucified by the media.
I'm an epidemiologist and virologist (they aren't the same things). A real, live one who has made his money off the study of patterns and causes of diseases up to and including this one and coming up with/executing plans to mitigate damage as a result of them. It is absolutely maddening that I - and most others in my field - have to sit back and quietly watch as talking haircuts, career politicians, and random software engineers at social media companies dictate what the messaging on this is going to be and how it runs basically exactly opposite to what people who have devoted their careers to this would say were we not muzzled.
But that's all I'll say on that.
What I will say specific to the NFL, however, is that their policy on this is completely nonsensical. They've created a caste system by which jabbed and unjabbed players and personnel have different standards for when they can return, when the data has proven (and all the data we have so far on Omi bolsters this) there is no functional difference between the level of contagiousness the 2 groups represent as it pertains to others. Further, if it's this latest variant which, though the data is incomplete it is strongly leaning towards this conclusion, has a significantly higher level of infectivity but a significantly lower rate of mortality (true of 99.9% of all viruses, as their goal is to survive, so as they adapt they increase contagion and infection but as a trade-off become less dangerous), the current jabs which are based upon a dead strain are going to be less than 40% effective against it. This variant is going to tear through locker rooms one-by-one.
And there's nothing wrong with that because these people will be fine, you should just keep certain personnel out during what should amount to a modern day chicken pox party.
