Minor League Baseball Teams Follow Trend Of Relaxing COVID Protocols

Sports are experiencing a sea change.

Major League Baseball’s minor league system will no longer require players to be vaccinated to lace up during the 2022 season. Although it is not clear if MLB will host a season this year (the league has been locked out), it is becoming more aware that the league does not have to ban everyone to ensure a successful season.

All other team personnel will have to be “up to date” on the vaccine dosages, but you’ve got to celebrate the victories – even when they are small.

In recent weeks, however, the little victories in sports are increasing in number.

The NFL – which has been the most consistently rigid American sports league with their COVID policies – will no longer test asymptomatic players, regardless of their vaccination status. With the relatively harmless Omicron variant showing that people can test positive for the virus regardless, the NFL actually made a rational decision based on “following the (actual) science” and not inventing their own.

Likewise, the NHL is taking incremental – yet still positive – changes to their COVID protocols. If they are positive, players and staff who have been fully vaccinated will not need to be quarantined for 10 days. They only have to stay in quarantine for five. While most other aspects of their nonsensical protocols will stay in place, it is still a sign that they realize that some of the most physically in shape players on the planet don’t need nearly two weeks to recover from the mild disease.

Over the past two years, many sports leagues across the nation have attempted to stop the spread COVID-19 within their respective teams. But it was not enough. It seems that now they realize they can’t stop it spreading and they slowly but surely allow life to get back to normal.

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