- The NBA proposes a new measure to “encourage” anti-vaccine basketball players to get vaccinated against Covid-19
The NBA is proposing a new measure to “incentivize” basketball players to get vaccinated against Covid-19. We tell you what it is about.
Whether for religious reasons or an anti-vaccine philosophy, the truth is that there are a large number of basketball players who have shown their rejection of vaccines against Covid-19.
The United States, in that sense, is one of the countries where more anti-vaccine groups exist in different sectors of society. An unusual fact considering that we are in a context where the Covid has not stopped and in the North American country it continues to add more infections and deaths.
However, there is one sector in particular that has attracted the most attention, and it is the world of athletes, something that in recent months has become more frequent in various parts of the world.
After the arrival of Covid-19 and the pandemic, conspiracy theories began to emerge and flood the content of social networks in a very important way.
Likewise, after the appearance of the vaccine against the disease, anti-vaccine groups have not been long in coming and, in the same way, they are wreaking havoc in American society and, mainly, they have become a real headache for women. authorities.
In this way, we have seen how more and more marches and other actions take place to demand their right to decide not to be vaccinated, either by their own decision, because of religion or because they simply do not believe in it.
The case of the NBA
This type of message has also come from athletes, being one of the most recent and that has attracted the most attention from NBA athletes.
Given this, the body in charge of one of the most popular sports in the United States has decided to start taking forceful actions that are causing controversy.
This day, the NBA announced that, as part of its “strategy” to “encourage” players to receive their dose, it will reduce the salary of basketball players. That is, they will pay less to those who do not get vaccinated against Covid-19.
“Any player who chooses not to comply with the local vaccination orders will not receive money for the matches that he / she misses, “said the agency in a statement that some have collected. media.
A subject subject to a great discussion
Now, one of the rules that the NBA has so that players are playing with their teams is that they present a PCR test that shows that they are not infected.
However, when it comes to vaccination, there are players, such as Kyrie Irving and Andre Wiggins who have publicly expressed their refusal to receive any biological against the virus that is taking the lives of many people around the world.
This certainly brings up an interesting discussion. In the end, it is true, everyone decides whether to get vaccinated or not. The risks of not doing so will be the responsibility of whoever has so decided. But making a decision like the one proposed by the NBA could be seen as an outburst to its most basic guarantees.
What does not stop calling attention is that, in a state of global emergency, this happens with personalities who serve as examples to thousands of followers, many of them children and adolescents.
A complex issue that, however, is occurring in many places and that every day becomes more difficult to control.
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