The NFL’s vaccination rate is near 90%. That’s good news.
It’s better news that the most popular sports league in the country achieved this without a strict COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Not that mandates are wrong, they just hit too many the wrong way.
Oh, the league made it more inconvenient for those who shunned the shot, requiring masking, social distancing, more testing. And if an unvaccinated player tests positive and triggers the threshold for forfeiting?
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That’s a helluva burden, made heavier by ruling that forfeited games will result in lost pay.