The NBA will now require their referees to be fully vaccinated ahead of next season. Of course, provided they don’t have religious limitations because that’s the protocol pretty much everywhere that’s requiring the jab.

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Makes you wonder why Scott Foster or Tony Brothers wouldn’t come out publicly as Buddhist. They really should, and if the NBA still insisted to keep their jobs as referees, then they hold out the way NFL refs did in 2012.

You "must be fully vaccinated in order to conduct in-person interactions with players," Yahoo Sports’ Shams Charania tweeted.

Referees, who are obviously far more likely to die from covid with their advanced age than players, need vaccines to come face-to-face with world-class athletes? It’s almost like the league threw out every morsel of evidence that proves obesity and covid hospitalizations/deaths have a direct correlation. Anyone ignoring that fact has aspirations far more cynical than an obsession with public health.

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The NBA is making the same mistake the NFL did a few months ago by abusing their rights as a private company. Just because you can force employees to do something doesn’t mean you should. A two-tiered society is building before our eyes and it’s starting with professional sports. But will the refs stop them?