Author Topic: About half the Phillies refuse to be vaccinated against COVID  (Read 339 times)

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https://slate.com/culture/2021/07/phillies-covid-outbreak-vaccine-skepticism-mlb-nfl.html?fbclid=IwAR0aX5jrWYQ_v1zUXa-VkOYNMUMFHipGmR2zJD-54oltF_TJAuMzDZTIn60

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He also writes the holdouts’ vaccine opposition is “driven by a handful of influential players who have voiced opposition to it,” and provides some examples of anti-vaccine talking points that are almost jaw-dropping in how nonsensical they sound. Pitcher Brandon Kintzler had neck pain during an outing and decided it was thanks to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, not, you know, to pitching. Pitcher Archie Bradley “alluded to” the vaccine, rather than, uh, pitching, causing oblique issues. Shortstop Didi Gregorious blamed the vaccine for an elbow problem. The report says team doctors have tried to “dispel” these notions, but in their defense, the players don’t seem especially movable. “There has to be some science behind it,” Kintzler said of the vaccine preceding several Phillies suffering baseball injuries. Manager Joe Girardi sounds like a guy who has given up, saying the club is “beyond” peer pressure.