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https://sports.yahoo.com/ron-rivera-blasts-fing-aholes-spreading-vaccine-misinformation-leading-people-to-die-192846971.html

 

Mon, August 16, 2021, 3:28 PM
 
Washington Football Team head coach Ron Rivera spoke bluntly about the spread of misinformation in media and social media concerning COVID-19 vaccines. 
 

In an interview with MMQB's Albert Breer published Monday, the veteran NFL coach blamed the practice for causing unnecessary death and called for de-platforming people who engage in it.

 

“Gen Z is relying on this,” Rivera said, referring to his phone as a source of information. “And you got some, quite frankly, f***ing a**holes, that are putting a bunch of misinformation out there, leading people to die. That’s frustrating to me, that these people are allowed to have a platform."

Rivera didn't name names. But he called out "one specific news agency" as a regular source of vaccine misinformation. 

"And then, one specific news agency, every time they have someone on, 'I’m not a doctor, but the vaccines don’t work,'" Rivera continued. "Or, 'I’m not an epidemiologist, but vaccines are going to give you a third nipple and make you sterile.' Come on. That, to me? That should not be allowed.”

 

Rivera is immunocompromised after fight with cancer

Rivera, 59, is preparing for his second season as Washington's head coach and his 16th as an NFL head coach or coordinator. He is a cancer survivor. News of Rivera's squamous cell cancer diagnosis broke last August during his first training camp in Washington. He underwent grueling treatments that left him 40 pounds lighter and needing help to walk from his car into the team facility.

 

In January, he announced that he is cancer free. But as a cancer survivor, he remains more susceptible to the health risks associated with COVID-19, which has now killed more than 620,000 Americans and 4.3 million people worldwide. 

He's leading a team that was a laggard in the NFL in terms of vaccination rates but has recently seen participation eclipse 84%. That uptick from less than 50% before training camp has arrived amid vigilant urging from Rivera for his players and team staff to get vaccinated. 

“I’m truly frustrated,” Rivera said in July, per the Washington Post. “I’m beyond frustrated. One of the reasons I walked in with a mask on is I’m immune-deficient. … When I’m in a group and the group’s not vaccinated or there’s a mixture, I put the mask on, and I do that for health reasons because nobody really knows [about the new Delta variant]. I have to do that. And I just wish and I hope that our guys can understand that.”

 

COVID outbreaks will carry football, financial penalties in NFL

In addition to Rivera's obvious personal concerns about COVID-19, there's football motivation for the coach to urge players and staff to get vaccinated. The NFL isn't mandating vaccines for players. But it's placing the burden of schedule disruptions entirely on players and teams deemed to be the source of a COVID-19 outbreak that forces a game to be canceled. 

Instead of rescheduling games amid outbreaks like it did in 2020, the NFL is planning to outright cancel games this season. The team with an outbreak in a matchup that's canceled will be credited with a loss by forfeit. Players on both teams will lose their game checks. The new protocol has ramped up peer pressure among players to get vaccinated. 

But for Rivera, the subject of vaccines is obviously more important than wins, losses and game checks. 

“There’s enough positive science out there, if they’re going to tell me that over 600,000 people have died and 99.9% are people that were not vaccinated, well, what about the .1%?" Rivera told Breer. "Well, that .1% are people that had underlying conditions—old age, something else. It’s not young, healthy people. 

"So I don’t know why. And then they talk about all this distrust. Well, if half the world wants it and can’t get it, what’s the problem with us? It frustrates me.”

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I like how he's not attacking anyone's personal opinion, but rather the media's spin on it. That's a guy who understands life, different perspectives and personal differences while also understanding the need for knowledge to spread and for decisions to be based on fact rather than tribal knowledge that really shouldn't be considered as knowledge.

 

Goes to show what kind of man he is.

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43 minutes ago, PartyPosse said:

If his players don't respect him for what he's gone through and aren't willing to minimize putting him in any harm's way, I don't care how good you are, there's no place for you on a team.


Except for Montez Sweat. That guy belongs at LDE even if he’s a nimrod!

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27 minutes ago, London Kev said:

It really is unbelievable that in this internet age, more people have got access to more information and knowledge than at any time in history, and yet so many people just seem to be getting dumber.

 

"More" does not equal "better".  Social media has broken society in an irreversible way.

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54 minutes ago, KDawg said:

I like how he's not attacking anyone's personal opinion, but rather the media's spin on it. That's a guy who understands life, different perspectives and personal differences while also understanding the need for knowledge to spread and for decisions to be based on fact rather than tribal knowledge that really shouldn't be considered as knowledge.

 

Goes to show what kind of man he is.

It's really an indirect way at attacking people by saying how easily gullible and lazy they are without actually saying it.

 

GENIUS. The man is a genius.

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7 hours ago, Snagletooth said:

I agree there are a lot of f***king a**holes.  They should all be expected or forced even to take the poke or lose their job.  So that Ron can keep his job.

Assuming I’m reading you right -

Considering Ron’s pissed off/complaining about the “f****** a*******” spreading misinformation - leading to vaccine hesitancy - and talks about the overwhelming science/data supporting getting vaccinated… this is a pretty poor point.   
 

Edit: maybe I’m misreading the quoted post as sarcastic.  My bad if so.  

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On 8/16/2021 at 6:45 PM, KDawg said:

I like how he's not attacking anyone's personal opinion, but rather the media's spin on it. That's a guy who understands life, different perspectives and personal differences while also understanding the need for knowledge to spread and for decisions to be based on fact rather than tribal knowledge that really shouldn't be considered as knowledge.

 

Goes to show what kind of man he is.


Media’s spin on what? The vast majority of the media has been pro-vaccine. It’s also easier to attack the media than some of his own players and I don’t think it’s fair to attack the media for someone not taking the vaccine at this point. 

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59 minutes ago, No Nonsense said:


Media’s spin on what? The vast majority of the media has been pro-vaccine. It’s also easier to attack the media than some of his own players and I don’t think it’s fair to attack the media for someone not taking the vaccine at this point. 

Gotta see through what he was doing. Media is an easy bad guy and he used them to get his point across.

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1 hour ago, No Nonsense said:


Media’s spin on what? The vast majority of the media has been pro-vaccine. It’s also easier to attack the media than some of his own players and I don’t think it’s fair to attack the media for someone not taking the vaccine at this point. 

Coach can't attack his own team, so to get on the players case without actually being on their case, he has to attack the next best thing: The source of the players' opinion. And Rivera never actually said it's just media in general. He said it's f***ing a**holes.

 

Rivera is running a daycare for millionaire babies. Unfortunately, that means he has to be careful how he phrases his statements so that he doesn't hurt the feelings of the babies that happen to be incredibly good at their jobs.

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