Maelstrom88 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 12:56 pm
Comparing it to drunk driving is completely asinine. Any lawsuit would fall apart very quickly. For starters can the person prove they contracted the virus from the unvaccinated teammate?
A vaccinated person has at least taken steps to prevent injury. That doesn't guarantee they won't injure, but that's the underpinning of the legal liability concept of negligence. Or in the case of Rodgers, willful negligence. As in, the league has a policy for vaccinated players. I knowingly hold myself out as immunized, and I behave as if I am immunized under that policy knowing full well I am not. One of my teammates gets sick and dies.
Don't tell me you think Rogers or the Packers wouldn't at least get hit with a lawsuit if that were to happen under that set of facts.
Maelstrom88 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 12:56 pm
Rodgers and Joe Rogan both used Ivermectin and had great results. Why is that not a treatment that is pushed? Couldn't be $$$ and lobbyist related could it?
Forget the drug companies for a second...
Why do you think the medical and scientific community would not seriously consider and evaluate any proposed preventive or treatment option?
But it clearly IS being pushed - by certain media and talking heads like Joe Rogan who seem intent on recommending anything other than proven mechanisms to combat this virus.
Once again, why would that be? In your view, the drug company lobbyists are the only ones with a $$$ motive, while guys like Rogan and various Fox "News" opinion hosts don't have a $$$ motive? Those big, bad heavily regulated Pharma companies deserve suspicion, but not your trusted talking head or for-profit "news" network?
Second, there is no scientifically valid and replicated independent study that has demonstrated Ivermectin can treat or prevent infection or reduce the severity of disease once infected. Not one. You can take it on a boat, you can take it with a goat. COVID doesn't care. It's a virus.
The original "studies" that showed Ivermectin prevented or reduced the severity of COVID infection have all fallen apart under independent scrutiny, and no subsequent objective study has replicated what the original author claimed was observed (same is true for hydroxychloriquine).
Contrast that with the vaccines that were rigorously studied and tested and the data behind them has been repeatedly independently replicated and publicly available. They do a good job of preventing infection in people with healthy immune systems. For others, they do a good job of reducing the severity of infection. Proven. Scientific. Fact. Results replicated all over the world.
Rodgers and Rogan did do something good though. At least both aren't a threat to give other people worms now...
What about the makers of Ivermectin and Hydroxychoriquine? Do you get your Ivermectin from the local Ivermectin brewer down the street?
Or how about the phama companies making monoclonal antibodies? Those are different companies than the ones hawking any of the myriad other drugs we constantly see being advertised on TV?
You think a different set of companies makes vaccines?