OT: LSU requiring proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 test at stadium for fans 12 years & older
LSU will require all fans 12 years and older to provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 PCR test at home games this fall. In consultation with various important decision-makers, including Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, LSU president William F. Tate and athletic director Scott Woodward, the decision comes out of concern for the fast-spreading Delta variant of the coronavirus. The policy will take effect for LSU's home opener against McNeese State on Sept. 11.
Fans at Tiger Stadium will be asked to show proof of at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine backed by the FDA. That includes those shots from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, both of which remain under emergency use authorization. Pfizer-BioNTech's two-dose vaccine received its full FDA approval on Monday. Physical or digital proof of a vaccinate card will be accepted upon inspection.
Those who aren't vaccinated will have to show proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of kickoff. Kids under 12 will not need to show proof of a negative test and wearing masks is encouraged, but not required. The school is still in the works with other measures like further masking requirements and pop-up vaccine sites.
August 24th, 2021 at 12:38 PM ^
Oh man, if I had to choose one major school/fan base that this would not go over well with, it would certainly be LSU. I can’t wait.
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Their inner emotions of “muh freedumz” vs “I gotta support my Bayou Bengals in person” might cause their heads to explode.
August 24th, 2021 at 1:23 PM ^
True, but I'm not sure people have an appreciation for how awful the situation has been for the past month (and counting) for Louisiana.
For example, just today they reported a record amount of COVID deaths --139. Most hospitals in rural areas (and Louisiana is quite rural) have been out of beds for weeks. And so on.
So while I was surprised when I looked at the social media announcement how positive (relatively speaking) that people took the news, I guess I shouldn't have been. It was like, "Well, of course. It's the least we can do considering how bad things are."
August 24th, 2021 at 3:12 PM ^
It's bad *because* they are fucking idiots who aren't taking it seriously, hence the surprise that these assholes finally are.
August 24th, 2021 at 5:02 PM ^
There's some truth to what you're saying -- Louisiana vax rates are very low. But while I don't know the people who run LSU at all, and from a sports perspective they seem dirtier than most (e.g., keeping Will Wade employed all these years), that's small potatoes stuff.
Like most flagship universities (e.g., U of M), LSU runs a large health system -- with a big hospital(s) and clinics in multiple locations across the state. And that health system is currently overrun. So it is not surprising they are taking it seriously, regardless of whether fans of their football team in the Bayou are. It's literally life and death.
“This fourth surge is now becoming the worst surge we’ve seen,” says Leonardo Seoane, MD, senior vice president and chief academic officer for Ochsner Health in New Orleans and associate vice chancellor of academics at LSU Health Shreveport. “The team is feeling like it’s another Hurricane Katrina.”
August 24th, 2021 at 6:07 PM ^
LSU is acting sensibly here. It is a good policy. Why then are we shitting on them for doing the correct preventive measures?
August 24th, 2021 at 6:10 PM ^
Exactly, we should be shitting on UGa, which is doing nothing
August 24th, 2021 at 9:16 PM ^
Which is the correct approach.
August 24th, 2021 at 9:21 PM ^
On this LSU message board, the thread starts out calmly but then becomes a real doozy.
August 24th, 2021 at 9:32 PM ^
And look - vaccination seems to not do as much as they've told us all this time.
But in early July, with citizens over the age of 60 almost completely vaccinated, Israeli scientists began observing a worrisome rise in infections—if not in severe illness and death—among the double-vaccinated.
Fully vaccinated people with weakened immune systems appeared particularly vulnerable to the aggressive Delta variant.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ultra-vaxxed-israel-debacle-dire-073840050.html
Line up for your boosters and show ze papers.
August 24th, 2021 at 10:19 PM ^
Which is why booster shots are going to be a thing. Like with influenza, we'll probably need to get the shot every year.
Do not interpret this as "It's better to never get it." Right now, U.S. hospitals are full of unvaxxed Covid patients. And in Israel, while Covid cases are close to what they were last winter, Covid deaths are far lower.
August 24th, 2021 at 11:11 PM ^
After reading some of the stories on https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/
I have come to the conclusion that many of the antivax people are completely insane. They are far, far beyond being reasoned with.
August 25th, 2021 at 12:23 AM ^
Sort of like....
August 25th, 2021 at 10:10 AM ^
Unfortunately that is almost mild crazy. I was reading a story about a person who is homeless living I their car because their parents kicked them out for getting vaccinated. Apparently they think shedding spike proteins will kill them or some shit.
August 25th, 2021 at 12:52 PM ^
I'm so over it. Fuck you anti-vax asshole. You're making life miserable for the rest of us by your selfish behavior. I'm done being nice or "understanding". Fuck yourself. If you don't want to get vaxxed, fine, but then you're not welcome in ANYPLACE where you'd be threatening innocent people . . . like anyplace with other people. Go find a remote retreat where you can live with your fellow anti-vax idiots, grow your own food, entertain yourself, and treat yourself when you get sick with COVID. Just don't mix with the rest of society.
August 24th, 2021 at 9:08 PM ^
I think you're looking at this wrong.... the LSU fanbase will suck it up and get vaxxed to be able to see 6 or 7 home games.
This really sticks it to visitors.... Shame, really.
August 24th, 2021 at 9:28 PM ^
Yeah, your snark seems to imply that LSU and their fans in general are dumb.
Perhaps THAT is why they made this rule?
#ShowMeZePaperz
August 24th, 2021 at 12:44 PM ^
Based on the experiences with move-in day at the dorms, I'm sure everyone will follow the instructions and everything will go very smoothly.
Instead of turning away students [that weren't vaccinated or have proof of a negative test result] until test results came through, she said the school immediately put them back with everyone else in the move-in line.
When asked if that policy risked coronavirus transmission by sending people back in the mix before ruling out whether they carried COVID, David said she would have to refer the question to LSU administrators or health experts.
Move-in day puts LSU's 11th-hour pandemic protocol to the test, leaves some students in limbo
August 24th, 2021 at 12:50 PM ^
I don't care for eggplant
August 24th, 2021 at 1:31 PM ^
same, but I also dislike zucchini. love me some spaghetti squash though
August 24th, 2021 at 6:19 PM ^
You're obviously an uneducated knuckle-dragger. Everyone with at least a single functioning brain cell knows that eggplant is the most versatile vegetable on the planet. If we didn't have eggplant parmigiana and baba ghanoush, puppies would die and babies would grow up without bouncy seats.
<end-sarcasm>
August 24th, 2021 at 12:50 PM ^
Not a surprise as it has already been implemented in NOLA.
FDA Approval = imminent large scale mandates.
August 24th, 2021 at 1:08 PM ^
Considering LSU is generally a 'win sports at all costs' school, I'm really surprised they're doing this. Especially considering the cultural climate of Louisiana wrt covid and vaccines and such
August 24th, 2021 at 6:21 PM ^
The military basically immediately mandated it after full approval.
August 24th, 2021 at 12:53 PM ^
This should go over so, so well in a Deep South state.
I’m sure everyone is going to be so respectful of the policy and ticket takers won’t be verbally abused, harassed, spat at, and treated like they are the second coming of the redcoats here to subject us all to another round of the Intolerable Acts.
Of all the schools that would impose this, LSU is probably among the last I would’ve considered. Right up there with any school in Alabama or Mississippi.
August 24th, 2021 at 1:14 PM ^
This should go over so, so well
Like a fart in church.
August 24th, 2021 at 2:29 PM ^
I was so bummed when that show was canceled. I still call people “bud” in memory of Tandy.
August 24th, 2021 at 12:54 PM ^
Good to see schools aren't messing around anymore, though my guess is compliance and enforcement will be spottier than one would like.
August 24th, 2021 at 12:55 PM ^
…but will accept $50 in cash and/or a reduction in a relative’s jail term in lieu of proof of vaccination…
August 24th, 2021 at 12:57 PM ^
Oh good a Covid-related thread. This will be an excellent opportunity for me to learn about all the ways the vaccine is bad for me and how the government isnt telling us the truth from that segment of our community who graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Facebook.
August 24th, 2021 at 1:13 PM ^
Remedial course. You could have learnt this yesterday in the Oregon/Oregon State thread on the same topic.
August 24th, 2021 at 6:04 PM ^
To be fair, the needle does cause pain
/s
August 24th, 2021 at 12:57 PM ^
Oh man...somewhere in the Bayou swamps, all of the LSU fans are exploding over this act of "tyranny".
August 24th, 2021 at 1:00 PM ^
Good.
August 24th, 2021 at 1:04 PM ^
Agree. This is good and I hope more and more schools decide to do this.
August 24th, 2021 at 1:06 PM ^
Damn. If you had told me to rank the P5 schools in order of most to least likely to implement a requirement like this, I think I'd have had LSU in the bottom 3
August 24th, 2021 at 1:07 PM ^
Seems like this is the direction we're heading.
I'm amazed LSU is ahead of Michigan on something like this.
August 24th, 2021 at 3:50 PM ^
Louisiana has 100.4 cases per 100,000. Michigan has 17.8. Louisiana hospitals are struggling to handle all the covid cases they are seeing. Michigan hospitals are not. While there are some factors that make it surprising they are being more aggressive, there are other factors that make it clear why they are.
August 24th, 2021 at 1:14 PM ^
Can we just stop with these?
August 24th, 2021 at 1:21 PM ^
LSU taking the lead on this was not on my bingo board
August 24th, 2021 at 1:22 PM ^
I'm for auto-banning any OP that posts this crap. It's clearly troll baiting. I can click on espn.com or twitter or whatever to find out the latest institution and their Covid policies. If you are creating this OP and you're pretending to be naive about what it will turn into you're completely full of shit and you're just sowing discord in what used to be a great community.
August 24th, 2021 at 1:32 PM ^
Settle down, Francis. The post should have been labeled 'OT', but it's still college football newsworthy. I mean, who would think that LSU, of all schools, would institute such a policy? This is the same school that banned small LA colleges and high schools from inviting Michigan coaches to football clinics because it might impact home state recruiting, under penalty of not offering any scholarships to players from those schools.
In other words, LSU is a school that has demonstrated that it doesn't care about the good of the state's population, only about itself. So yeah, this school demonstrating care about others is news worthy...
August 24th, 2021 at 1:37 PM ^
I did go to espn.com after reading your comment since you put it in my head. I saw an article that was 'Will Michigan make it to 8 wins?' ??♂️
August 24th, 2021 at 1:38 PM ^
Sounds like you might need to step away from the board if this upsets you that much. Also, was the community really that great if something like getting a vaccine is cause enough to throw a tantrum?
