Anti-vax NFL star Cole Beasley offers to buy UNVACCINATED fans tickets to Buffalo Bills games played on road
NFL star and anti-vaxxer Cole Beasley has offered to buy unvaccinated fans tickets to Bills games away from home.
Wide receiver Beasley, 32, along with side’s long snapper Reid Ferguson, 27, made the gesture after the Buffalo Bills issued a mandate saying proof of vaccination was required to attend games held at Highmark Stadium.
Fans who have refused to get the coronavirus vaccine have been planning to support their team at away games.
But it looks like those fans won’t have to stump up the cash for tickets if Beasley and Ferguson keep their word.
Responding to fan Chris Hauquitz on Twitter, Beasley wrote: “If you find an away game you are able to go to then I will buy the tickets for you guys. DM me names and everything and I’ll figure out the best way to make it happen.”
“I’ve had Covid, so in my opinion, I’ve already got the antibodies,” Hauquitz told the Buffalo News. “I think they’re just as good as the vaccine. The vaccine came out pretty rushed. I don’t really know all the information. In my opinion, there’s so little information out there and it all seems to be one-sided. And then, personally, my religious beliefs. I think God created me for a purpose. He has a plan for my life. And whether I have the vaccine or not, I’m taken care of.”
Hauquitz added that when he got Covid-19, it was his decision to “take a chicken pox approach” and pass it along to his entire family, including his children, who range in age from 23 months to 12 years.
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Similarly, Ferguson, also responding to a fan on the social media site, wrote: “I hear you brother. If you can find your way to an away game this year, tix are on me.”
So far, only four NFL teams - the Seahawks, Raiders, Saints, and Bills - require proof of vaccination as a condition for attendance in their home stadiums.
Unvaccinated Bills fans could travel to Miami for the Week 2 game, as well as upcoming road games against the Chiefs, Titans, Jaguars, Jets, Buccaneers, and Patriots.
Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the chief medical advisor to the president, said in a July press briefing that unvaccinated individuals accounted for 97 per cent of Covid hospitalizations and deaths in the US.
Just three states, Florida, Texas, and Missouri, accounted for 40 per cent of all cases nationwide.
Beasley spoke out about the NFL's Covid policies in July this year.
He released a statement that called into question the league's transparency regarding the new policy for vaccinated and unvaccinated players.
"I'm not anti or pro vax. I'm pro-choice. With that being said, the issue at hand is information being withheld from players in order for a player to be swayed in a direction he may not be comfortable with," Beasley started his statement.
"When dealing with a player's health and safety, there should be complete transparency regarding information that is vital in the decision-making process."
"Without having all the proper information, a player can feel misguided and unsure about a very personal choice. It makes a player feel unprotected and gives concerns about future topics regarding health and our ability to make educated decisions," he continued.
In August Beasley and Isaiah McKenzie were fined by the NFL for violating Covid protocols.
More than 5.95 billion doses have been given out across 184 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg.
That works out at around 33.1 million doses a day.
In America there have been 386 million doses given out so far. And an average of 763,444 doses per day were administered over the past week Stateside.
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In the UK, more than 92 million vaccines have been administered.
The risk of clotting from the jab — 79 in 20million doses, or one per 250,000 — is tiny compared to other medical emergencies.
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