(07-16-2021 07:33 AM)dansplaining Wrote:  

(07-16-2021 07:06 AM)cidbearit Wrote:  

(07-16-2021 06:35 AM)dansplaining Wrote:  

(07-15-2021 04:53 PM)emu steve Wrote:  https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31823940

EDIT: Covid strikes the N.Y. Yankees. Also Bradley Beal is in the protocol and will miss the Olympics.

Outbreaks will probably be localized to low vax states and local areas, but it could be a problem come fall and the CFB season.

Even a few cases can cause ramifications as far as the medical personnel are concerned.

You know how you avoid that issue? programs should require their players all be vaxxed - not exceptions.

I'm in support of vaccination on as broad a scale as possible, but playing devil's advocate here, what about employee rights?

So let me respond in two different ways:

1.) Thanks to 'At-Will Employment' a person can be fired for just about any reason so long as it isn't covered by any civil rights legislation. This would carve out an exception for people with medical reasons not to get vaccinated (such as allergies) or religion exemptions. Unless you have either of these exemptions - you gotta get the shot. WebMD has a good write up about this: https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-...accination

2.) As has been litigated TO DEATH on this board - players aren't employees. They're students. Students at schools are required to get vaccinations at literally every level of schooling - why should this be any exception?

Agree. Whatever rules apply to the student body at EMU should apply to STUDENT-athletes, too.

Going geek but student-athletes are a subset of the full time EMU student body.

Using the term 'subset' indicates are not separate or apart but a part, but less than the whole, of the student body.

That said, EMU athletics, may opt to be more restrictive for student-athletes than the student body as a whole in certain circumstances, usually related to athletics. E.g., a school may take a hands off policy of marijuana usage subject to state law but an university or NCAA may have stronger rules. And certainly they may as far as performance enhancing drugs.