Buffalo Bills receiver Cole Beasley will reportedly be out several days because of coronavirus protocols.
According to Pat Leonard, Beasley has been sent home for five days because he was in close contact with a trainer who tested positive. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)
Buffalo #Bills news: Per a source, Cole Beasley & Gabriel Davis passed this morning’s COVID test (came back negative) but have been removed from facility & must undergo 5-day reentry process as close contacts to a member of team’s training staff who tested positive for #COVID19
— Pat Leonard (@PLeonardNYDN) August 24, 2021
This underscores two sides of the coin:
1. If players were vaccinated, they wouldn’t have to be out for 5 days
But
2. A vaccinated player/staff can still test positive for #COVID19, which can contribute to outbreak or spread in a building that could compromise a game #Bills
— Pat Leonard (@PLeonardNYDN) August 24, 2021
Everyone should be on the lookout for the reaction to this news. Beasley isn’t vaccinated and he’s one of the most outspoken critics of the NFL’s handling of vaccines.
On more than one occasion, he’s spoken out against the league’s policies and the feeling players are more or less being forced into it.
This is crazy. Did we vote on this? I stay in the hotel. We still have meetings. We will all be together. Vaccinated players can go out the hotel and bring covid back in to where I am. So what does it matter if I stay in the hotel now? 100 percent immune with vaccination? No. https://t.co/g61WM8zAOh
— Cole Beasley (@Bease11) June 17, 2021
Knowing what we know about social media, I 100% people to drag Beasley for being unvaccinated and being sent home.
However, people really should resist the urge to do so. By mocking Beasley, nothing gets fixed and it only further divides us.
He made his decision on the vaccine, calculated the risks and he now has to deal with the situation he’s in.
The players association is a joke. Call it something different. It’s not for the players. Everyone gives me the 98 percent of people who are vaccinated don’t get covid again. The odds of me getting in the NFL and playing for 10 years are lower than that and I’m here.
— Cole Beasley (@Bease11) June 17, 2021
People acting like idiots on social media won’t change anything. Let the man make and live with his decisions.
