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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Simply refuse to take a test for the mythical Covid. I am just about 100% convinced that Covid the disease is as real as a unicorn. There may be a Sars-Cov-2 disease caused by the corona virus. I am tired of being gaslighted, bullshi’ted and pressured into Anti-American behavior.
With the cost of purchasing a degree in these times, they had better pass any and everybody. They are likely using the same grading scales as they use for All American QB’s who never go to class.
Same thing with masks.
If they worked Karen would wear hers and not worry about me.
Yes, we are immune from the common cold we caught before. New ones come around, new variants and we become immune to the ones we haven’t experienced before.
>>> There is a nefarious agenda here.
Who woulda ever thought The White Horse of the apocolypse was a reference to a lab coat?
this is the brainwashing
this is the societal pressure to fit in and get with the program
its a wedge issue because it makes us’s and them’s
and thus another way to pit a desired group against your enemy group
Was that supposed to be sarcasm?
How can they argue that the jab is BETTER than natural immunity??? huh???
Kinda strange isn't it? Almost sounds as if they don't want to know if you are immune.
No, seriously, if he doesn’t comply, tase him into submission! After getting jolted several times the vax won’t seem so bad.
Not a whole lot of science going on in her tiny little mind - but at Stanford, it appears to be "who you know".
She's got a cush gig where she's at now...
“My medicine won’t work unless you take it too.” - teammates
What exactly are these people so pissed about? They can get Covid and transmit. Michael Andrew can’t.
This is stupid.
>>> Almost sounds as if they don’t want to know if you are immune.
It’s CERTAINLY NOT about preventing deaths.
Not when the CDC is actively hiding death counts and correlations to the vaccinated!
Being a human as God made you is now insufficient.
Hmm, seems they would be happy there are unvaxxed gumming up the works, which will help to extend the pandemic. I am certain they’ll have the sheeple lining up for boosters soon and the vaccine cash cow will have Pfizer and the rest swimming in billions again. It’s all about extending the mess, not ending it. Too many good things have come from it for our new overlords.
They’re in a bubble at the Olympics so the chance of him getting it is very low, so this busybody should mind her own business.
OK. Wow. I don’t really even know how to respond to that.
I had to look at some of dragnet’s previous posts (they are being sarcastic).
Although I had to look, as on other threads some of the pro-jab folks are almost talking like that.
You might be thinking of the PCR tests. Those ARE wildly inacurate. Antibody tests actually work well from what I've read.
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