NASCAR drivers consider getting vaccinated, reducing appearances with new protocols

[doublethink]

Nate Ryan
Sun, August 22, 2021, 2:00 PM

BROOKLYN, Michigan – Corey LaJoie’s benching for a COVID-19 exposure and stricter NASCAR protocols had an impact this week in the Cup Series as drivers reconsidered public appearances and their vaccination status.

Joey Logano confirmed to NBC Sports during a media session Sunday morning at Michigan International Speedway that he elected to get vaccinated after LaJoie was sidelined by a COVID-19 close contact.

Though LaJoie since has tested negative for COVID-19, he is under a mandatory seven-day quarantine (with a test on the fifth day) before he can return to the car.

The policy is different for vaccinated drivers, who don’t have to quarantine but aren’t cleared to return to the NASCAR garage until they have a negative test three to five days later. In LaJoie’s case, his exposure to someone who tested positive occurred last Monday, meaning if he were vaccinated that he could have been cleared Thursday through Saturday to race at Michigan (where he was replaced Sunday by Josh Berry. -snip-

rest of story here ...
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/nascar-drivers-consider-getting-vaccinated-210028626.html


Personal thoughts: Nowhere in the article does any driver state a concern for 'others' like yeah man I could be covid positive and kill Grandma. Nope it's all about themselves, $, staying in the competition, personal choice, freedumb to make your own choice, the old fall back on 'what to believe?' ... IT'S FREAKING SCIENCE YOU ASSHOLES. It's not the first rodeo for VACCINES ... and by the way ...
LaJoie is the driver who had Trump sponsorship on his cars during last election. Of course he's the driver under a 7 day mandatory quarantine. Guy never finishes in the top 20 ... ha and I always root he doesn't ... Out.

[Skittles]

1. surely you are not surprised it is all about them

fucking selfish assholes

[elleng]

2. Some time during the past ?decades, a concern for 'others'

departed/started departing our 'culture.'

[dweller]

3. wait ... wut?

They’re going to zoom the races ?



✌🏻

[magicarpet]

4. It is baked onto our culture... insanely rugged individualism.

It is part and parcel to rabid capitalism,... me,... me,... me,... my,... my,.. mine. Greed is glorious,.. Prosperity Theology,...Jesus was a snowflake,... fuck you, fuck them,... I only care about me and mine and owning the Libs.

[doublethink]

5. Yep more baked into the Republican mind though ...

today more by mindless slogans, social media, mis-information ... lies ha ... on and on. Hard enough for the rest of us to stay informed and really care for one another on the one hand, and fight off the ignorance of that other part of our society. Peace and all the best.

[Iggo]

6. Oh, consider it, do they?

Well, then!