U.S. swimmer Michael Andrew on why he will go to Tokyo Olympics without Coronavirus Vaccine

MSN ^ | 07/09/2021 | Dave Sheinin

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Team USA swimmer Michael Andrew confirmed Thursday that he remains unvaccinated for the coronavirus ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, reaffirming a stance he and his family made clear at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials last month and probably subjecting himself and U.S. officials to further uncomfortable questions when the Games begin in two weeks.

Andrew, 22, said during a remote media availability from the U.S. swim team’s training camp in Hawaii that he chose not to get vaccinated in the month between the trials and the Olympics, explaining: “It was kind of a last moment. I didn’t want to put anything in my body that I didn’t know how I would potentially react to. As an athlete on the elite level, everything we do is very calculated. … I didn’t want to risk any days out, because there are periods where, if you take the vaccine, you have to deal with some days off.”

Dave Durden, the men’s coach for the U.S. swimming team, deflected a question about Andrew’s vaccination status, saying: “All of our athletes, in the community that we’re in right now, we’re being very conscious, being very safe with how we’re handling our teams, how we’re going from place to place, how we’re operating in our training camp environment, how we are effectively bubbling ourselves. … And that’s probably the more important piece of this. Regardless of vaccinations or not vaccinated, it’s what our attitudes and actions are.”

[KC_Lion]

GASP!

[clearcarbon]

"I didn’t want to put anything in my body that I didn’t know how I would potentially react to. "

Heretic!

[NEBO]

As a person who almost died from penicillin my doctor gave me, TWICE... I respect his comments! Almost lost a son to Ceclor, antibiotic his doctor gave him. He had taken it for years then all of a sudden one day, BAM!. Not fun. Dangerous. Drugs can and do kill. Even the legal ones. And covid vaccine is experimental. Not approved by FDA.

[CheshireTheCat]

Why do I feel as if Covid tests of Olympic athletes are going to be real fun to watch the ramifications of?

Will a higher number of the favorites test positive?

Will athletes of certain countries test positive more often than others?

Will the Chinese athletes mysteriously not test positive?

Regarding the vaccines, will the vaccinated athletes perform worse than the unvaccinated ones?

[Jamestown1630]

This is very good sense.

I had a very hard reaction to the second shot of Moderna. I’ve had worse cases of ‘flu before, but never such intense joint/muscle pain and disability, for about two days.

I chose to take the vaccine, for a variety of reasons; but I don’t blame a young athlete for forgoing the vaccine.

[SoConPubbie]

[SoConPubbie]

See post #7. :)

[kiryandil]

Three paragraphs in to the MSN propaganda piece, and it wasn’t mentioned that he had Covid and recovered...

[kiryandil]

I read the entire newspuppet propaganda piece.

Not ONE whisper that Michael Andrew had already had Covid and recovered.

He has the REAL antibodies.

I wonder why the Media liars would lie by omission about that?

[consult]

Another lost sole....throwing their life away. How can it be? Keep up this great reporting MSN

[peggybac]

He already had Covid so he doesn’t need the jab. But, even if he hadn’t had it, it’s nobody’s fricking business. I wish he wouldn’t have explained why, but I like his explanation.

[simpson96]

Guess he pre-CANCELED himself. The MSM will take it from here.

[rktman]

😳

[clearcarbon]

"I wonder why the Media liars would lie by omission about that?

After over a year of helping ruin the economy I doubt they want to find too many folks alive that have never been vaccinated.

[alexander_busek]

Another lost sole....throwing their life away.

Yeah, sounds like a real heel!

Regards,

[Steven Tyler]

and probably subjecting himself and U.S. officials to further uncomfortable questions

“probably”, right there your first indicator this a fake news piece designed to brainwash the uninformed

Will be looking for the solid “un named sources” to bolster the writers bias and agenda

[Steven Tyler]

we’re being very conscious, being very safe

superb advice for everyone.
Keep your distance from vaccinate folks, wash your hands, etc.
The vaccinated folks could be shedding the mRNA and nobody should have that junk in their body

[Hot Tabasco]

I find it odd that the article never mentions the fact that Andrew had already contracted Covid.....

Speaking on the swimming podcast “Inside With Brett Hawke” in January, Andrew said he had already contracted the virus and justified the decision not to get vaccinated: “So my thought pattern is kind of like, if I’ve already got it, there’s not as much health risk for me.”