MotownMadness wrote:bisme37 wrote:MotownMadness wrote: Why stop the blame there? Let's go after everyone who traveled international and brought it to my front door while minding my own. Let's go harder on who started it.
Kyrie isn't hurting anyone being unvaccinated. The whole time he was out covid was spreading all over the league like a wildfire amongst the vaccinated.
You didn't respond to anything I said as far as being a good teammate and helping your team. I don't care about his vax status in a vacuum, I'm talking about the impact on his team. Regardless of the what or why, he's choosing to bail on his team and teammates.
Well I don't think he should have to make any medical decision based on anyone else's feelings. Unless you really think he's putting their lives in danger which clearly it makes no difference if they're all vaccinated and seem to all catch covid easily anyways.
His unvaccinated status changes nothing regarding anyone else's health.
Regardless of what people feel about the vaccines, there are plenty of instances, for right or for wrong, where players based medical decisions on the benefit to the team. I mean Ronnie Lott amputated his pinky finger to play in the playoffs for the 49ers, and countless other players, including Kyrie, have undergone surgeries that have inherent risks, to keep on playing, all the while listening to the advice of doctors. Now im not saying cutting off a finger is a smart thing to do at all, but getting a vaccination is no where near that drastic, based on the BILLIONS of vaccine shots that have been safely administered.
Players always talk about going all in for the team, and sometimes foolishly say things like they "will take a bullet" or "go to war" with their teammates, but if you have someone on the team that wont take a overwhelmingly proven safe shot in order to be in the trenches with his teammates, plus the other times he has sat out games for non injury reasons the last few years, why should you commit to him when he isn't truly committed to the team, regardless of his reasons.
Could you imagine someone like Shaq or Lebron or Curry give up a prime year of not only their careers, but of [url]their teammates'[/url], because they wont take a shot over a reason they wont clearly articulate?
In the end, i dont think the frustration with Kyrie from someone like Harden is because Harden or others are so pro vax in principal, its more "man you wont even take this like all of us have even if it means the success or failure of something we all have invested in "? Especially after he has trusted these same doctors advice in all of the procedures and surgeries he has gone through?
