Nah, that takes work. He’s fundamentally lazy until/unless he needs to do something. His last several offseasons have shown that pretty clearly.
I can see him trying to be a semi-permanent fixture on Pat McAfee’s show, though. Let other people do the actual work and get the attention he so desperately craves by spouting insane conspiracy theories on other people’s channels without doing any more “research” than watching some YouTube videos. That’s pretty much the new American dream, I would think.
Looks like we’re in for a ride down the slippery slope…
The statement described the move as a shift “away from one-size-fits-all paternalistic guidance” to a stance in which “immunization for any vaccine, along with practices like mask wearing and social distancing, are an individual’s personal choice.”
The statement said that the flu vaccine can reduce illness severity and therefore may help high-risk patients — but falsely claimed “the flu vaccine does not prevent one from getting the influenza virus.”
Virulent antivaxers won’t change when children (even their own) are harmed or killed by vaccine-preventable diseases. They’ll blame Big Pharma for evildoing that got them to oppose vaccines, or the government for allegedly misleading them or even for creating and spreading the diseases in a plot to sell more vaccines. They’re nutcakes who are not susceptible to reason and evidence.
What will change is that a great majority of non-delusional parents who’ve been “fence-sitters” will react to surges in preventable infectious disease by getting their kids vaccinated.
It’s a great pity that so many will have to suffer (and this includes the immunosuppressed and vulnerable elderly) before realization dawns, but that’s where we are.
I saw a meme yesterday that said something like “What this country needs is an especially deadly Covid variant and an especially effective Covid vaccine.”
That sort of conspiracy-theorist thinking is a closed system; if you don’t buy into the conspiracy you are part of it and thus your opinion can be rejected. It makes trying to reason with them pretty much futile.
Worse. I’ve had it explained (for some weird version of “explain”) that getting the vaccination means ‘you are now infected with the virus’. AND Your blood is no longer good for transfusions (to anti-vax persons).
To play along, point out that the microchips make you smarter and the 5G reception is fantastic.
I knew an anti-vaxxer who believed that the covid vaccine made you magnetic.
I said, “Absolutely! I got my first shot last week, and walking home took forever. First I got stuck to a light post, but fortunately a semi went by, and I stuck to it. Damn, it took me clear to the lake! Luckily, the #66 bus went by, and sticking to that got me home.”