Posted on 07/22/2021 7:27:11 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
He is both a COVID-19 survivor but also one of the minority of athletes preparing for these beleaguered Games that has refused to become vaccinated. Andrew, who is scheduled to compete in the 100-metre breaststroke, the 200-metre individual medley and the 50-metre freestyle, has his reasons. But for many, they aren’t sitting well.
“My reason behind it is, for one, it was kind of last moment (and) I didn’t want to put anything in my body that I didn’t know how I would potentially react to,” Andrew said during a pre-Olympics video press conference. “As an athlete on the elite level, everything you do is very calculated and understood."...
On Thursday, Team USA coach Dave Durden was pressed repeatedly by reporters on Andrew’s stance, and by extension, his living arrangements among his teammates.
Durden said the U.S. team is adhering to the extensive COVID protocols in place and at least sounded confident that Andrew wouldn’t post a health threat....
Durden claimed not to know Andrew’s precise living arrangements in the Athletes’ Village but his mere presence with the team could create huge competitive issues for the Americans. Though the International Olympic Committee hasn’t mandated vaccines — it estimated recently that 80 per cent of competitors will be fully vaxxed — there are strict lockdown rules in place, including close contact tracing, should there be an outbreak or positive....
Most pointed among them came from former U.S. swimmer Maya DiRado. The four-time medallist at the 2016 Rio Games took to Twitter to lambaste Andrew.
“That Michael would make a decision that puts even a bit of risk on his teammates for his own perceived well-being frustrates me,” DiRado wrote. “I wish he’d think harder about what he’s proud to represent.”...
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But of course Big Media refuses to discuss that taboo subject, because that might actually decrease the amount of public fear.
And Big Pharma worries that taboo subject might actually decrease the amount of publicly funded profits.
“That Michael would make a decision that puts even a bit of risk on his teammates for his own perceived well-being frustrates me,” DiRado wrote. “I wish he’d think harder about what he’s proud to represent.”...
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So if his teammates already had the vaccine remind me why they took the vaccine?
IMO, this guy represents the real America.
Yes because young healthy athletes who have already developed natural immunity need to be shot up with an experimental unnaproved vaccine against a disease they are not at any serious risk from because Big Fear-ma wants its payday.
Bill Gates had natural immunity removed from the WHO’s protocol. vaccine Immunity is the only immunity that will be accepted or recognize (sounds like a conspiracy but its all true). The removal was a few years back and had the scientific community in an uproar. No one thought that is was going to be used with the fake, planned pandemic. The definition of a pandemic was also changed by Gates to remove certain elements.
A pandemic is now simply a new worldwide disease. So they can call a pandemic anytime and mandate any vaccine to fix it.
This was all easy to find on the WHO’s site but they have “rearranged” where the data is kept now. In other words they have scrubbed that info off their site.
Michael should tell that virtue-signaling woman:
My body, my choice!
Sadly, if he ever tests positive for COVID during the games (with out without symptoms), those pushing the vaccines are going to ruin his life.
Just tell them you identify as a vaccinated woman. They’ll go away.
He’s had Covid .
There’s zero reason for him to have the vaccine.
So if his teammates already had the vaccine remind me why they took the vaccine?
....perhaps they should just swim wearing masks???
That’s what gets me. The vaccine is supposed to let you go on with living but the authorities won’t let you do that. They tell you the “vaccine” just lessens risk and symptoms. Woop-te-doo! Whatever it is, it ain’t no vaccine if you can’t live your life as normal.
The "colleges" are passing out degrees like candy these days.
All this BS media hoopla is the distraction, not his refusal to get the jab that HE DOESN’T NEED!
Everyone gets a trophy!
Send in some Biden union goons, hold this guy down and give him the jab. If necessary, tase him until restrained!
The common cold is a coronavirus.
When you recovered from your first ever common cold, were you immune for all the following years and never got it again?
I haven’t been vaxxed but the people recently got covid at work... All three were vaxxed.
The common cold is many things. Most often it is a sort of rhinovirus. It is sometimes a type or coronavirus.
You generally become immune to the virus that you have had. But in the case of the common cold, there are many other viruses that can come along and you will not be immune to those.
COVID-19 is a particular coronavirus. The variants appear to be similar enough to the original that immunity to one gives immunity to all.
Comparisons to the common cold do not apply. Broad immunity to the common cold is unlikely. Broad immunity to COVID-19 seems very likely.
Isn’t it kind of odd that nobody at this point is screaming for a valid anti-body test that will show natural immunity???
How can they argue that the jab is BETTER than natural immunity??? huh???
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