Enjoyed almost every piece you've written. One of the most talented basketball minds I've seen in my time. Net fan for almost 40 years. You are completely off the rails with the vaccine nonsense. Amazes me how so many of the same people who were appalled by the "Just Shut Up & Dribble" crowd are now sponsoring and lauding the "Just Shut Up & Get the Shot" crew. Thousands upon thousands of negative side effects to it, every day we're seeing more and more evidence that the shot simply does NOT work in keeping one from getting or transmitting the virus, yet intelligent people like yourself insist Kyrie is the idiot! Instead of calling the Mayor of NYC out for his ridiculous overreach on authority, not to mention his blatant disregard for science and logic (ya know, you can play in Barclays as a visitor LOL), you, and many of your colleagues, continue to pile on a guy who is exercising his free will to NOT inject an experimental concoction into his body. Point the blame where it belongs, Steve. No government entity should be empowered to mandate that a medicine be taken for a disease with a 99.97% survival rate, and which has now proven not to work (See Gibraltor and their 100% vaccinated population) C'mon man! You're an exceptional basketball writer! SHUT UP AND WRITE (about basketball)
Thank you for the kind words--at the start. You should know I write these from the point of view of a Nets fan and the simplest solution is for Kyrie to just get the vaccine. That's what all but like a dozen of his NBA cohorts have done. If you've read my previous columns on this topic, you'll know that I called out the inconsistencies in the Executive Order--not only can opponents play at Barclays without a vaccine, but Kyrie is allowed to practice every day at HSS. Makes zero sense. I also pointed out that such inconsistencies left open the door for legal challenges, with the understanding that the Nets wouldn't be the ones to initiate a challenge. I will argue that your info on the vaccine is 100% false, and you can ask multiple players about the long-term effects of getting COVID-19 while, um, no one has ever complained about how side effects from the vaccine have impacted their games. The vaccine is not experimental. There are now hundreds of millions of data sets that prove it is safe. You also need to understand the difference between infection and disease. The vaccines were never intended to halt transmission--in fact, the published results have been at best 90% effective against the alpha variant while declining against the delta variant. Still, that means that vaccinated people are much more likely to become dead hosts when infected, shedding the virus quickly and thereby reducing the risk that they will transmit it further. The vaccine is even more effective in combatting the disease. In my home state of NJ, over 28,000 people have died of COVID-19--about 280 were fully vaccinated among the over 6 million fully vaxxed people. Getting back to Kyrie, "freedom" isn't a legitimate excuse to not get vaccinated, not when his stance has consequences to the Nets. They're all still supportive of him publicly, but we don't know how they really feel about a player who isn't about the team. Sorry about the long response, but I felt it was important for you to see the full picture.
Enjoyed almost every piece you've written. One of the most talented basketball minds I've seen in my time. Net fan for almost 40 years. You are completely off the rails with the vaccine nonsense. Amazes me how so many of the same people who were appalled by the "Just Shut Up & Dribble" crowd are now sponsoring and lauding the "Just Shut Up & Get the Shot" crew. Thousands upon thousands of negative side effects to it, every day we're seeing more and more evidence that the shot simply does NOT work in keeping one from getting or transmitting the virus, yet intelligent people like yourself insist Kyrie is the idiot! Instead of calling the Mayor of NYC out for his ridiculous overreach on authority, not to mention his blatant disregard for science and logic (ya know, you can play in Barclays as a visitor LOL), you, and many of your colleagues, continue to pile on a guy who is exercising his free will to NOT inject an experimental concoction into his body. Point the blame where it belongs, Steve. No government entity should be empowered to mandate that a medicine be taken for a disease with a 99.97% survival rate, and which has now proven not to work (See Gibraltor and their 100% vaccinated population) C'mon man! You're an exceptional basketball writer! SHUT UP AND WRITE (about basketball)
Thank you for the kind words--at the start. You should know I write these from the point of view of a Nets fan and the simplest solution is for Kyrie to just get the vaccine. That's what all but like a dozen of his NBA cohorts have done. If you've read my previous columns on this topic, you'll know that I called out the inconsistencies in the Executive Order--not only can opponents play at Barclays without a vaccine, but Kyrie is allowed to practice every day at HSS. Makes zero sense. I also pointed out that such inconsistencies left open the door for legal challenges, with the understanding that the Nets wouldn't be the ones to initiate a challenge. I will argue that your info on the vaccine is 100% false, and you can ask multiple players about the long-term effects of getting COVID-19 while, um, no one has ever complained about how side effects from the vaccine have impacted their games. The vaccine is not experimental. There are now hundreds of millions of data sets that prove it is safe. You also need to understand the difference between infection and disease. The vaccines were never intended to halt transmission--in fact, the published results have been at best 90% effective against the alpha variant while declining against the delta variant. Still, that means that vaccinated people are much more likely to become dead hosts when infected, shedding the virus quickly and thereby reducing the risk that they will transmit it further. The vaccine is even more effective in combatting the disease. In my home state of NJ, over 28,000 people have died of COVID-19--about 280 were fully vaccinated among the over 6 million fully vaxxed people. Getting back to Kyrie, "freedom" isn't a legitimate excuse to not get vaccinated, not when his stance has consequences to the Nets. They're all still supportive of him publicly, but we don't know how they really feel about a player who isn't about the team. Sorry about the long response, but I felt it was important for you to see the full picture.