Cook on COVID list

Cook is unvaccinated.

The NFL is going to be a shit show this weekend. Tons of players on the COVID list. 3rd stringers starting at QB in New Orleans. This Omicron variant is EVERYWHERE. The NHL shutdown their league because of it. What's hilarious is poor South Africa is bearing the brunt of announcing the variant and having travel restrictions put in place but the variant was everywhere already anyway....and probably was for months.

It's Wu time.

Very disappointed but not surprised.

yup.   Just flashed on NFLN

typical Vikings...two steps forward, one step back

SMH  :/

It is just amazing and disappointing that the spirit of team first and winning is just completely lost on many of these players.  You would think as a team you would want to do whatever it takes to give your team an edge.  Ironically, many of them have had more needles stuck in them with all kinds of stuff that they have no idea how safe it is, but the difference is that it benefits them personally and it enhances their performance and consequently their paychecks.  Huge game with playoff implications and we have to be without our best player.  We can win without Cook, but we are not going to win without Cousins and you just have to wonder if he is next.  

@"JR44" said: It is just amazing and disappointing that the spirit of team first and winning is just completely lost on many of these players.  You would think as a team you would want to do whatever it takes to give your team an edge.  Ironically, many of them have had more needles stuck in them with all kinds of stuff that they have no idea how safe it is, but the difference is that it benefits them personally and it enhances their performance and consequently their paychecks.  Huge game with playoff implications and we have to be without our best player.  We can win without Cook, but we are not going to win without Cousins and you just have to wonder if he is next.  

This is fun. I am having fun. The Rams game will be fun.

@"Knucklehead" said:

@"JR44" said: It is just amazing and disappointing that the spirit of team first and winning is just completely lost on many of these players.  You would think as a team you would want to do whatever it takes to give your team an edge.  Ironically, many of them have had more needles stuck in them with all kinds of stuff that they have no idea how safe it is, but the difference is that it benefits them personally and it enhances their performance and consequently their paychecks.  Huge game with playoff implications and we have to be without our best player.  We can win without Cook, but we are not going to win without Cousins and you just have to wonder if he is next.  

Patrick Peterson tried to make the same point in training camp. Evidently, it fell on deaf ears.

If you caught Covid and were unvaccinated, you should lose your game check.  

Until it affects their wallets they won't give a shit.

We all knew this would bite us in the ass when we were in the playoff hunt, zero surprise here. 

Thielan and Cousins are also unvaxed, so odds are they have been exposed as well. We have 3 must win games to control our own destiny....does anyone here think we can win a game or two upcoimg if we are down to our iffy backup QB? Just a whole reflection on the shitshow the VIkings have been all year. Time to wipe theslate clean. Zimmer and Spielman gone, and let new coach decide on the future of QB.

Being vaccinated won’t necessarily keep you from getting COVID. Yes, it could definitely mean a less severe case of it, but obviously as far as the NFL is concerned whether or not you have a severe case means nothing. You go on the list regardless.

I am a medical transcriptionist and I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve typed COVID cases for patients who are fully vaccinated, and now for ones who have had boosters too. I guess in my opinion anyway all the players and coaches are at equal risk, vaccinated or not, of ending up on the COVID list. This isn’t me advocating against the vaccine, it’s just my experience as a healthcare employee.

@"prairieghost" said: Being vaccinated won’t necessarily keep you from getting COVID. Yes, it could definitely mean a less severe case of it, but obviously as far as the NFL is concerned whether or not you have a severe case means nothing. You go on the list regardless.

I am a medical transcriptionist and I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve typed COVID cases for patients who are fully vaccinated, and now for ones who have had boosters too. I guess in my opinion anyway all the players and coaches are at equal risk, vaccinated or not, of ending up on the COVID list. This isn’t me advocating against the vaccine, it’s just my experience as a healthcare employee.

The current "solution" seems more like running around screaming in panic than any form of science.  In the NBA, Irving has sat out the season because his team plays in NY where they require the vax for indoor events.  Now that his vaxxed teammates are popping positive, the Nets actually are considering bringing him back for road games.  Tell me that makes an scientific sense.

Since he has to be out 10 days is that going to be two games? That’d be really annoying to not have our best running back in the two toughest games down the stretch when we are fighting for a playoff spot

If things go the same for #Vikings RB Dalvin Cook as they did for DT Dalvin Tomlinson and RB Alexander Mattison (two other unvaccinated Vikings players recently on the COVID-19 reserve list), Cook will be activated off the list Jan. 1, in time to play Jan. 2 at Green Bay.

— Chris Tomasson (@christomasson) December 23, 2021

Prairieghost— I believe what you mean to say is-all players and coaches (whether vaccinated or not) are equally at risk of being put on a Covid list if they test positive. But I think what some may read that to mean all players and coaches are equally at risk of testing positive whether they are vaccinated or not.  And that is a proven scientific falsehood. Those who are fully vaccinated are FAR LESS LIKELY to contract Covid and if they do (because nothing is 100% effective) their symptoms tend to be FAR LESS severe. That’s different. And for someone to say yeah but how good did he play against Detroit? is frankly ridiculous. It’s completely irrelevant.That has nothing to do with Covid or one’s vaccination status. Even the best—like Dalvin Cook- are going to have games in which the struggle. He’s not a RB machine. 
As long as people think they could get Covid whether they are vaxed or not, and therefore why get vaxed? the longer this will go on. Mutations (like omicron) will continue to happen as long as the virus exists. If we allow the virus to grow unchecked, the mutations will happen at a faster rate. It’s a numbers game. The lower the numbers the fewer the mutations.

@"Caactorvike" said: Prairieghost— I believe what you mean to say is-all players and coaches (whether vaccinated or not) are equally at risk of being put on a Covid list if they test positive. But I think what some may read that to mean all players and coaches are equally at risk of testing positive whether they are vaccinated or not.  And that is a proven scientific falsehood. Those who are fully vaccinated are FAR LESS LIKELY to contract Covid and if they do (because nothing is 100% effective) their symptoms tend to be FAR LESS severe. That’s different. And for someone to say yeah but how good did he play against Detroit? is frankly ridiculous. It’s completely irrelevant.That has nothing to do with Covid or one’s vaccination status. Even the best—like Dalvin Cook- are going to have games in which the struggle. He’s not a RB machine. 

As long as people think they could get Covid whether they are vaxed or not, and therefore why get vaxed? the longer this will go on. Mutations (like omicron) will continue to happen as long as the virus exists. If we allow the virus to grow unchecked, the mutations will happen at a faster rate. It’s a numbers game. The lower the numbers the fewer the mutations.

Never did I make an assertion to not get vaccinated. I am vaccinated. My whole family is. But the truth remains that many, many people are contracting COVID despite being fully vaccinated. Are the unvaccinated people more at risk? In general, sure. But we’re talking about football players and coaches who are in close physical contact of one another. Their risk, vaccinated or not, is greater.

Many of the physicians I transcribe have come down with COVID. They are vaccinated and boostered. But their risk is greater; they are in close physical contact with sick people.

@"Caactorvike" said: Prairieghost— I believe what you mean to say is-all players and coaches (whether vaccinated or not) are equally at risk of being put on a Covid list if they test positive. But I think what some may read that to mean all players and coaches are equally at risk of testing positive whether they are vaccinated or not.  And that is a proven scientific falsehood. Those who are fully vaccinated are FAR LESS LIKELY to contract Covid and if they do (because nothing is 100% effective) their symptoms tend to be FAR LESS severe. That’s different. And for someone to say yeah but how good did he play against Detroit? is frankly ridiculous. It’s completely irrelevant.That has nothing to do with Covid or one’s vaccination status. Even the best—like Dalvin Cook- are going to have games in which the struggle. He’s not a RB machine. 

As long as people think they could get Covid whether they are vaxed or not, and therefore why get vaxed? the longer this will go on. Mutations (like omicron) will continue to happen as long as the virus exists. If we allow the virus to grow unchecked, the mutations will happen at a faster rate. It’s a numbers game. The lower the numbers the fewer the mutations.

@"Caactorvike" said: Prairieghost— I believe what you mean to say is-all players and coaches (whether vaccinated or not) are equally at risk of being put on a Covid list if they test positive. But I think what some may read that to mean all players and coaches are equally at risk of testing positive whether they are vaccinated or not.  And that is a proven scientific falsehood. Those who are fully vaccinated are FAR LESS LIKELY to contract Covid and if they do (because nothing is 100% effective) their symptoms tend to be FAR LESS severe. That’s different. And for someone to say yeah but how good did he play against Detroit? is frankly ridiculous. It’s completely irrelevant.That has nothing to do with Covid or one’s vaccination status. Even the best—like Dalvin Cook- are going to have games in which the struggle. He’s not a RB machine. 

As long as people think they could get Covid whether they are vaxed or not, and therefore why get vaxed? the longer this will go on. Mutations (like omicron) will continue to happen as long as the virus exists. If we allow the virus to grow unchecked, the mutations will happen at a faster rate. It’s a numbers game. The lower the numbers the fewer the mutations.

@"Caactorvike" said: Prairieghost— I believe what you mean to say is-all players and coaches (whether vaccinated or not) are equally at risk of being put on a Covid list if they test positive. But I think what some may read that to mean all players and coaches are equally at risk of testing positive whether they are vaccinated or not.  And that is a proven scientific falsehood. Those who are fully vaccinated are FAR LESS LIKELY to contract Covid and if they do (because nothing is 100% effective) their symptoms tend to be FAR LESS severe. That’s different. And for someone to say yeah but how good did he play against Detroit? is frankly ridiculous. It’s completely irrelevant.That has nothing to do with Covid or one’s vaccination status. Even the best—like Dalvin Cook- are going to have games in which the struggle. He’s not a RB machine. 

As long as people think they could get Covid whether they are vaxed or not, and therefore why get vaxed? the longer this will go on. Mutations (like omicron) will continue to happen as long as the virus exists. If we allow the virus to grow unchecked, the mutations will happen at a faster rate. It’s a numbers game. The lower the numbers the fewer the mutations.