Stop me if you’ve heard this before: the NFL is instituting a COVID-19 safety policy that makes no sense whatsoever.
Unfortunately, the latest chapter in the NFL’s COVID insanity novel is being written, as the NFL will now require stricter COVID-19 protocols for players once they return from Thanksgiving.
It’s the standard craziness you’ve heard before for players and staff once they return from the holiday: increased testing and mask-wearing, with all football personnel required to be tested the Monday and Wednesday after Thanksgiving and mask-wearing at all team facilities from November 25 to December 1, regardless of vaccination status.
These policies will be enforced by the NFL, however. ESPN reports that video cameras will be installed in all team buildings to monitor compliance with protocols.
“Effective Nov. 29, all NFL teams will be required to have video cameras installed in their weight rooms and cafeterias, including weight rooms that are outdoors or in practice bubbles. Teams must retain video from those cameras for 30 days in case the league requests to view it for the purpose of finding out whether people are following mask requirements at team facilities.”
Video cameras! It would make sense that the NFL might want to be stricter about making sure their employees are following COVID protocols – especially after getting hilariously outsmarted by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers on their vaccine policy – but putting cameras every which and where in football facilities seems more like players and staff will be forced into house arrest whenever they clock in.
Wait, there’s more!
It will be mandatory for athletes and their staff to follow strict COVID protocols. The NFL encourages teams to test friends and families of any players, before they come into contact.
“NFL teams ‘are strongly encouraged to offer drive-through testing’ for friends and family of staff and players who will be staying or visiting with them for the holiday. ‘Such testing should be conducted before friends and family interact with players and staff.’”
How could a business try to use their influence to help the family members of its employees? This is a business that seems to have lost all sense of reality and has no control over it.
Overreaching and fear-based NFL protocols have been implemented all year. These protocols ignored science and did not consider personal choices. This has led to divisions in the NFL between good and evil (vaccinated) individuals. The new memo may reflect the insaneness of the NFL’s reign, but it still is disheartening to watch the NFL try to control families and interfere with the holiday season.
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