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Sean Dyche - vaccine for footballers?
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OrigamiNinja
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I cant stand Dyche but I agree that footballers should be vaccinated. I don't think it is fair on them that if something non-essential is effectively forced to continue, they put their lives and family at risk. Additionally, the only way to ensure some level of integrity in the sport, is to vaccinate players so that clubs are not forced to play games with significantly weaker sides.
blue b4 the moon
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Just no.
bluetonium
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How many vaccines are we talking to be able to cover all footballers and staff?
Is it fair to only do the premier League when lower leagues are suffering financially even more?
Is it morally acceptable to know that every younger person who has the vaccine means one less for the more at risk people?
I just can't justify it in my head. I'd rather see a suspension of the season. By late Feb or early March with the most at risk groups vaccinated, we can look at the rest and then for me is when footballers and staff get the nod. The timescales of vaccine development and deployment may be inconvenient for top class sports, but we take what we have and plan accordingly.
I don't particularly blame Dyche for his stance, if I was being forced into more high exposure scenarios then I'd ask too. But the answer is not now, for me.
Is it fair to only do the premier League when lower leagues are suffering financially even more?
Is it morally acceptable to know that every younger person who has the vaccine means one less for the more at risk people?
I just can't justify it in my head. I'd rather see a suspension of the season. By late Feb or early March with the most at risk groups vaccinated, we can look at the rest and then for me is when footballers and staff get the nod. The timescales of vaccine development and deployment may be inconvenient for top class sports, but we take what we have and plan accordingly.
I don't particularly blame Dyche for his stance, if I was being forced into more high exposure scenarios then I'd ask too. But the answer is not now, for me.
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The problem I have with the footballers is that because of the greed of the TV companies they are being put at risk far more that myself, this is also going to affect their immediate family members and any bubble they are in.Fortunately NHS are being vaccinated, footballers don’t need it as the football should be suspended like all other forms of work.
I don't know about you, but personally I have been following all the guidelines and rules and have basically been living like a hermit since early March last year. I have had two COVID tests one at Wythenshawe Hospital A&E and another at Trafford General prior to an operation I had in Wythenshawe Hospital on the 30th November and thankfully both were negative.
I am in a bubble with my wife and my son who lives on his own about three miles away. I go out for exercise most days and my Sunday paper each week at 7.00am to the local Co-Op when I am usually the only person there at that time. The wife does a weekly shop early doors on a Wednesday at Tesco's Baguley as she is a fair bit younger than me.
The footballers are in the company of upward of 50 people or more for training and matches and whilst they are a lot younger and fitter than I am they are still at a greater risk.
We all have our opinions on the best way forward but this virus doesn't give a toss about any of them.
Any way I trust you and your family members are all keeping well and not going potty with the fact you can not live your normal life, best wishes from a fellow Blue.
Blue Til Death
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I disagree, let’s get the key workers the elderly and vulnerable people vaccinated, football isn’t even on the radar when it comes to the prioritisation process for vaccines ... I do however believe that lower league clubs should be given more assistance to keep them afloat until we can get back to some semblance of normality...
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Footballers are virtually safe due to age and fitness, but done properly this is a brilliant idea. Each club pays 10k per month (week?) currently for Covid tests. That is now funnelled into NHS for 6 months - between £1 and £5million into NHS. How many extra people will that pay to do the injections for everyone else. The net impact is it would speed up vaccinations for others as that money could pay for more sites or more people to vaccinate quicker. So whilst they 'jump the queue' - if the money is used wisely this speeds up vaccinations for everyone else
gordondaviesmoustache
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My thoughts exactly, plus it may encourage some more recalcitrant younger people to have the vaccine down the line.Footballers are virtually safe due to age and fitness, but done properly this is a brilliant idea. Each club pays 10k per month (week?) currently for Covid tests. That is now funnelled into NHS for 6 months - between £1 and £5million into NHS. How many extra people will that pay to do the injections for everyone else. The net impact is it would speed up vaccinations for others as that money could pay for more sites or more people to vaccinate quicker. So whilst they 'jump the queue' - if the money is used wisely this speeds up vaccinations for everyone else
The problem is that there are two arguments. The logical one, and the emotional one.
Logically, diverting 2,000 doses or so our of the "hundreds of thousands a day" promised in the next fortnight to keep football going would be a brilliant investment.
It's an industry that generates huge amounts of money for the economy, keeps other industries afloat, keeps millions rooted to their sofas every weekend and not out spreading covid, and has a big mental health impact on the majority of the country that follows football .
However it will never happen because of the emotional argument. People already resent footballers because of the money they earn, now they're going to get the vaccine before mum and dad too? I wish I was paid £100k/week to stay in a bubble and kick a ball.
Look at the way football was treated over the financial help for coronavirus. There's no logic to it at all, why bail out multinational corporations, but demand football clubs bail out other football clubs? Supermarkets didn't get told to bailout the local greengrocers. Greene King weren't told to bail out your local indie pub, but football is football, it has money it doesn't deserve, so fuck them.
The fact it's a miniscule number of doses to safeguard something which brings in billions of tax and the money saved on testing - millions per week - could be diverted to keep culturally significant lower league clubs afloat doesn't matter. People don't like footballers, they don't want them to have the jab early.
Also imagine what morons like Mendy, Mitrovic, Lamela, Walker etc. etc. would get up to when they were vaccinated and bored? It would be a PR disaster for football when the inevitable happened.
Logically, diverting 2,000 doses or so our of the "hundreds of thousands a day" promised in the next fortnight to keep football going would be a brilliant investment.
It's an industry that generates huge amounts of money for the economy, keeps other industries afloat, keeps millions rooted to their sofas every weekend and not out spreading covid, and has a big mental health impact on the majority of the country that follows football .
However it will never happen because of the emotional argument. People already resent footballers because of the money they earn, now they're going to get the vaccine before mum and dad too? I wish I was paid £100k/week to stay in a bubble and kick a ball.
Look at the way football was treated over the financial help for coronavirus. There's no logic to it at all, why bail out multinational corporations, but demand football clubs bail out other football clubs? Supermarkets didn't get told to bailout the local greengrocers. Greene King weren't told to bail out your local indie pub, but football is football, it has money it doesn't deserve, so fuck them.
The fact it's a miniscule number of doses to safeguard something which brings in billions of tax and the money saved on testing - millions per week - could be diverted to keep culturally significant lower league clubs afloat doesn't matter. People don't like footballers, they don't want them to have the jab early.
Also imagine what morons like Mendy, Mitrovic, Lamela, Walker etc. etc. would get up to when they were vaccinated and bored? It would be a PR disaster for football when the inevitable happened.
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