Michigan above 95% vax rate
https://twitter.com/byaustinmeek/status/1423354391667658753?s=21
All coaches and staff too. Great job, hopefully we can get to 100%
I thought you meant the State of Michigan. Because I'm not very bright.
Me stupid too. I was like "Even all those survivalist goofs?"
me too, which would have explained why i NEVER SEE MASKED PEOPLE INDOORS.
we're never. getting past this.
Same. I was going to say, "Way to go!" But, hey, way to go, University of Michigan football team! Let's finish strong and get to 100%.
This is ‘M’goBlog, after all. Although, I have to confess, I thought the OP meant the entire student body. I guess that makes me somewhat less stupid.
I doubt we get 100% as someone will almost certainly not be medically able to but close would be nice!
Agreed, I am very impressed with above 95% with 18-22 year old athletes.
Well they are required to get vaxxed per university policy so maybe don't get TOO impressed with "complying with mandate"
Right. The reality is more like:
(1) 70% got vaccinated willingly (that's about the national rate),
(2) 83.3% of the remaining 30% got vaccinated after being told "get vaccinated or don't be allowed to play football for U-M, per University policy", and
(3) 16.7% of the remaining 30% still haven't chosen or can't medically choose choice 1 in the above.
I just saw something on the news . The gist was , they were scheduling college kids to get tested at 6 am if they werent vaccinated . Get a shot and sleep in or dont get a shot and have to be at a clinic by 6 am for a test .
Thats an easy choice .
Yes, bribery can be very effective.
It's definitely not bribery. If you're intending to throw negative shade on the policy, you might find another more appropriate word for it. I'll let the hamster wheel spin on that one for a bit.
Bribery fits. Whatever one thinks as regards mandates, it's an appropriate word.
No it doesn't.
Inventive fits.
6am is not that early...you all act like it's 3am.
If you have to get tested before you can do ANY team activities (which is the rule), and breakfast is at 6:45 or 7am...what time are you supposed to get tested?
They're in fall camp, you have 2 a days, even if they're not the old school 2 a days.
Eat breakfast, treatment, lift, practice, lunch, meetings, nap, dinner, walkthrough, meetings, snack, bed.
If that's you're schedule...which is a typical fall camp schedule. You can either get up at 5:30 to go test at 6 or 6:30 to go eat at 7.
100% of college kids are going to take the extra hour of sleep...especially, when you've got a fall camp schedule like they have.
So you're incentivized to get vaccinated if you value more sleep.
Boom, and the crowd goes wild...
I forgot, another incentive is masks.
I'm willing to bet they're not requiring them for vaccinated players, but if you're not vaccinated, they're probably making you wear one when you lift, when you're in meetings, basically anytime you're not eating, showering or practicing.
Nooooow cue my music.
August 6th, 2021 at 10:46 AM ^
What you call incentivizing, I call punishing.
Coercive, manipulative tactics with negative outcomes if you don't comply.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Yes, I will cue your military march music.
So when do you suggest they do it? 9pm before they go to bed?
Grow the fuck up and quit acting acting like these guys are running stadiums at 5am every morning because they're not vaccination.
August 6th, 2021 at 10:44 AM ^
Bribery refers to the offering, giving, soliciting, or receiving of any item of value as a means of influencing the actions of an individual holding a public or legal duty
"Public duty" is what is being pushed hard right now. Do it for the greater good, blah blah blah.
Definitely bribery, but if you prefer to call it coercion (do this or else), we can go there as well.
Spin on that hamster wheel.
August 7th, 2021 at 12:30 AM ^
That’s not what “public duty” means in the definition of bribery. Bribery means that someone who has a duty to perform a task (whether on behalf of the public as on office holder, for example, or on behalf of an employer, etc) cannot ask for money or something of value in order to fulfill that duty. If my job is to work at the Secretary of State’s office, it’s my duty to issue driver’s licenses, and I can’t demand extra payment for doing that job.
You're an idiot. By your interpretation anything is a public duty.
Even though I'm in my private home, if I run my air conditioning too much or take a long shower...you can spin that as public duty.
If I throw away clean foil or use bleach, in my own house.
All of those things impact the public. I have a duty to help protect the environment. That is not the same as public duty in bribery.
I can't believe I had to explain that to you, but you're arguing against vaccinations and it makes so much since that you don't know what bribery or public duty actually mean.
Proud of these young men. Wish the rest of the country would follow their lead.
Considering their season ended due to an outbreak, it's a competitive advantage to have everyone vaccinated. Good on the staff and players.
Two covid threads in a row. Should be interesting.
Kirk Cousins is considering entering a plexiglass bubble to avoid vaccination. Sparty on
Cousins shared that he is even considering putting plexiglass around himself in meetings so that he can not have a close contact force him to miss practices or even games.
I am thinking of dragging an IV stand around with me. I'll be damned if I'm going to drink a glass of water!
Kirk Cousins is an idiot Spartan, but I repeat myself.
I remember I got dragged on twitter a decade ago when he was a featured speech at Big Ten media day, since I commented that he didn't sound all that bright. Plenty of Spartans came around to let me know he was so smart he was going to be a DOCTOR. Guess I was right all along.
I like his argument about why his decision is "personal and private", which apparently includes erecting a plexiglass enclosure around him for whenever he's in the building of the organization paying him (checks notes) $21M next year.
Anyway, glad to see he isn't wasting any of the $140M+ he's made in his career on common sense or humility.
I was thinking that it'd be cheaper for him to put a plastic bag over his head but it sounds like he's already been doing that for extended periods of time.
Summary of Kirk’s dad’s church video currently going around Twitter:
Kirk Cousins’ dad believes that Satan is behind textbook changes, cancel culture, efforts to remove Confederate statues, and the current [Black Lives Matter] platform in “pro sports.”
August 5th, 2021 at 11:07 PM ^
Considering where Kirk grew up, it's not really surprising that he took an anti-vaxx stance.
Unfortunately the secret is out and people are leaving their liberal cities for this area.
and probably the IQ goes up in both places
August 10th, 2021 at 7:27 AM ^
So funny ya’ll on here make fun of a Spartan for not getting an experimental gene therapy treatment that has killed tens of thousands already. Cousins has atleast educated himself on the non-fda approved, experimental trial “vaccine”
August 10th, 2021 at 3:49 PM ^
Wow, you are...special. Paint chips?
I wonder what the vaccination rates are amongst other top college football school. I bet Alabama may have the lowest.
This was july 21, Nick Saban says Alabama close to 90% vaccination rate. You don't mess with Mrs Terry's season.
I bet Alabama may have the lowest.
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/lsu/article_0eadf288-ea78-11eb-b8e6-77a1458b5ba6.html
Posted below before I saw this. Most recent reports show LSU at 97.4% and 100% of coaching staff.
I would actually guess otherwise. Alabama the state may be one thing, but the kids on the football team are recruited all over the country. Moreover, whatever you may think of him as a person, Nick Saban REALLY likes two things: winning and control. When you couple that with the ever present risk of having to forfeit with a critical mass of positive cases, I'd guess that he would lean on everyone in the football program very heavily to get vaxxed.
I would honestly believe Alabama would have the highest vaccination percentage outside of schools requiring it. Could you imagine walking into Nick Saban's office to tell him you aren't getting vaccinated and possibly cause outbreaks or forfeits?
They probably drop a couple of Franklins on your if you get the shot.
You would be wrong.
Good. The whole country should be doing our best to approach that number
Im trying to stay out of covid threads but this news is too fantastic not to chime in. Good job Team!
Hopefully we get more good news tonight!
5G reception mustbe BANGIN' at Shembechler Hall
Also, a wireless cluster of vaccine nanobots has been constructed and the AD is mining cryptocurrency.
They can also replace helmet stickers with refrigerator magnets.