It is the future. Interstate travel/international travel, if you are not fully vaccinated you will not be allowed in. WA will be the poster child. You currently have to show 1 jab to be lucky enough to get to quarantine. If you want to play elite level national sport you must be vaccinated. Simple

Corey Williams is reporting that unvaccinated players will be kidnapped in Perth.

I actually thought this was a very adult response to the debacle. They specifically mention religious beliefs rather than anti-vaxers per se.

NRL have already said all players will have to be vaccinated. Odd that the NBL claim they can't do the same. Business are slowing enforcing this too.

I'd rather they took that approach for the safety of all.

99.9% survival rate and the hysteria around COVID compared to other diseases.

Everything turned to shit unfortunately

Hopefully this will spur some people into action then. No jab, no play. As someone else mentioned, this is the way it's going. Are anti-vaxxers seriously going to give up their careers....

"99.9% survival rate and the hysteria around COVID"

Symptoms of the hysteria include wrong buttons being pressed on calculators so that even seemingly basic arithmetic calculations end up with horribly inaccurate results.

You believe the government then you probably think nasa went to the moon as well

That's why they haven’t been back but have been to mars

Players have every right to not be vaccinated if they chose. Blame that on the federal government.

What they don't have the right to is their pay IF they can't play due to their choice to no be vaccinated. No jab and not able to travel? No pay for that game.

I suspect some of these anti-vaxers are in fact (or will be) vaccinated which will be awkward for them.

Doing something for the sake of public health is entirely different to choosing not to do something which only affects the individual. By not getting vaccinated, you're potentially also infecting others and also putting a whole team at risk ( esp if others aren't vaccinated in the team), or perhaps other community members around you if they legitimately can't get the vaccine (only a small % in this category though).

If someone has an STD but says "I choose not to wear a condom because I want to do whatever I want," do you really think that's acceptable? We get "told" not to drink and drive for the safety of ourselves and others too.

For me, the vaccine is in the same category. Also, no idea why any of the athletes would want to risk long covid. Jayson Tatum had it for months and has spoken about his struggles - https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/04/14/jayson-tatum-still-dealing-with-long-term-covid-effects-reveals-he-uses-inhaler-before-games/?sh=5c7f37e4a898

P.s that moon comment was ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!

"I think that such rules are against players` rights"

The NBL is not saying players can't play if they’re not vaccinated. They’re saying that if players can’t travel because of interstate border restrictions requiring unvaccinated players to quarantine, then they’re considering rules to allow the teams to replace those players.

Silesti what the hell are you on about?

Link?

Lmao. Nbl would be better with out you being there, I'd certainly feel safer.

Hoppie non-vaccinated players are going to have a hard time getting into some states least of all worrying about testing positive. And in addition just because you're vaccinated doesn’t mean you can’t catch it, just generally your symptoms are lessened.

In addition NSW is proposing you have to show proof of vaccination to go into licensed premises. No jab no flying will be a given

Nsw won't be open up to any other state this year even if they get to 70%. If you actually read the report, covid cases have to be very low to keep hospitals able to function before opening up. Nsw will be 4000 by end September, they have lost the plot.

Exactly, D.2.