Golden State Warriors ahead Andrew Wiggins used his media day availability to filibuster any and all questions on reportedly being unvaccinated in opposition to COVID-19, which might end in him lacking all San Francisco dwelling video games.
Wiggins oscillated between boilerplate rebuttals and defiant one-liners to media members in attendance. He opened by asserting that his vaccination standing is a “non-public” and “private” matter, a sentiment that members of the Warriors group nearly actually do not agree with provided that his enjoying future and the staff’s postseason hopes now dangle within the stability due to his resolution (to not point out Golden State coaches, workers and Chase Middle employees are required to be vaccinated).
As first reported by SFGATE, the San Francisco Division of Public Well being is barring unvaccinated attendees at giant indoor gatherings, no matter any non secular or medical exemptions they could declare. The NBA introduced on Friday night time that it had denied Wiggins’ non secular exemption request, a meaningless gesture by the league that solely got here after SFDPH issued its ruling.
When repeatedly pressed about why he is imperiling his well being and hurting his staff, Wiggins resorted to amorphous cliches. “I am assured in my beliefs, what I believe is correct and what I believe is unsuitable,” Wiggins stated. He was later requested what these beliefs had been, and he responded, “It is none of your corporation.”
This more and more foolish, high-stakes sport of rooster is near the anti-climatic conclusion the remainder of us can see coming. The Warriors’ season opener in opposition to the Los Angeles Lakers is ready for Oct. 19; if Wiggins is unvaccinated, we’ll know as a result of he will not be enjoying. He’ll ultimately forfeit $8.9 million in wage if he follows by way of on his stubbornness for a complete season which, as he appropriately identified on Monday, is “my downside, not yours.”
If solely it had been so easy on actually some other side of remaining unvaccinated. Wiggins himself can not seem to resolve whether or not he is an anti-vaccine martyr or if the entire COVID factor is definitely utterly overblown. “[My] again is certainly in opposition to the wall, I am gonna maintain combating for what I consider,” he stated of not getting vaccinated in opposition to a pandemic that has now killed nearly 700,000 individuals in america alone.
Then he continued: “What’s proper to 1 individual is not proper to the opposite.”
On that, we are able to agree.
