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(146,288 posts)Warpy
(111,255 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 posts)Football players are more essential than nurses, apparently.
Warpy
(111,255 posts)It costs a lot to buy players and operate those taxpayer built sportsball megaplexes.
Hospitals where the proles go are not on their radar, they're not money makers.
mucifer
(23,542 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts)The Seattle Times
@seattletimes
Registered nurses gathered in Los Angeles to protest the fact that UCLA's athletic department conducted 1,248 tests in a single week while health-care workers at UCLA hospitals were denied testing.
PhylliPretzel
(140 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)calimary
(81,238 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)ETA: Actually, not just Americans. Athletes being treated like fragile pieces of glass while the needs of the common person are ignored is a global phenomenon.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,431 posts)those highest on the priority list might include... athletes instead of health care workers. Athletes first, immunocompromised seniors second.
I'd like to be mistaken.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)of course all Rethug high-level politicians.....
Then, highest paid athletes and then Republican healthcare workers....
Thank goodness for Joe and Kamala........ .....
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I have no doubt.
JI7
(89,248 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Big ticket athletic programs and pro franchises can afford the extra testing. Hospitals "can't."
Yeah, our priorities suck as a nation.
Shermann
(7,413 posts)The DPA can fix what the free market can't.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)at least as long as those with the money don't have tubes down their throats.
erronis
(15,241 posts)But if you're a man (usually), white (usually), with money and power, then you can get what you want.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Have been for centuries. The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.
bluestarone
(16,926 posts)WHY WHY WHY???? Gotta change THIS!
Demobrat
(8,976 posts)Any questions?
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)that adds another dimension to this - I hadn't thought of it in that light.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Almost 10% of the nurses in America are male.
Demobrat
(8,976 posts)Just curious.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)or something reasonably close to it. :ca
As long as states are left to their own devices to get tests, the priorities will be screwed up, and the test results may be questionable. Major Trump FAIL.
are male nurses too.
Demobrat
(8,976 posts)Bless your heart.
dansolo
(5,376 posts)They would still be fucked over. This is not an issue with sexism, and claiming it does just ignored what the real problem is, which is the blatant disregard that hospitals have for their employees. They won't spend the money to keep their employees safe, even though they are being exposed every day.
2naSalit
(86,586 posts)KPN
(15,643 posts)Priority one.
Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)I agree its outrageous especially as they are all in the UCLA system, but my thought about testing athletes frequently was to prevent spread to the population in places they might visit. One infected person on one football team... wow, thats a super spreader.
HUAJIAO
(2,385 posts)Plus, imagine one infected nurse in an elder care center, or an ER, or ICU, or maternity department.....
marble falls
(57,081 posts)... to get it than give it.
And if you don't get it, you probably don't give it.
HUAJIAO
(2,385 posts)Not all health care workers dress like that. In fact, most do not.
marble falls
(57,081 posts)healthnut7
(249 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,191 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)paleotn
(17,912 posts)football = money. Networks must have content or no eyeballs on ads and they don't get paid. Athletic programs don't get the real money unless they meet their TV contract requirements. Large universities are slaves to their athletic programs. Yes, that's pointed at YOU Big Ten and Pac 12. You caved. The SEC? They're money grubbing whores where their member institutions actual mission is a minor nuisance. Everyone knows this. Of course they're going to do the WRONG thing. But I thought you guys had more backbone. Foolish me.
JDC
(10,127 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)If one of them shows a positive, then the athlete, coach, staff, etc, gets a PCR test to confirm. Athletes are not getting PCR tests every day.
Does the medical staff want rapid tests or PCR tests?
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)are more valuable than highly-trained medical professionals who will go on giving comfort to the sick and injured, and saving lives, probably for years to come. And some will undoubtedly have those years cut short because of this.
Am I missing something?
58Sunliner
(4,386 posts)Gee, why am I not surprised by how fucked up this is.
dlk
(11,561 posts)This is their way of administering healthcare. Which workers are valued is a policy decision and we can make different choices.
WOW, Just,WOW, when will we start protesting,or boycotting?
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Oh my god I am so pissed of !!!!!
BlueNProud
(1,048 posts)Fla Dem
(23,656 posts)After all, football players make money for the university. We have to pay the nurses.
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)Like the economy, dont blame poor people. It isnt that sports teams have so MUCH, its that medical institutions have NONEa complete failure by the Trump administrations federal government response.
Be mad at them, athletic teams just buy in bulk. Commercial test-makers sell theirs one-at-a-time. Why?More profit. Its all about the money, Trump will enable his corporate buddies to make money off of the suffering of citizens.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Vinca
(50,269 posts)professors eke out an existence. Our country has had just about everything ass backwards for what seems like forever, but this particular example is at the top of the list. I couldn't believe an interview I heard with a nurse the other day. She's been working in the Covid ICU since February and hasn't been tested once. It's beyond shameful, it's lethal.
Thunderbeast
(3,407 posts)Just WAIT to see who gets to the front of the vaccine line.
More bullshit about "Job Creators" is my guess.
PJMcK
(22,035 posts)I hate to be so cynical, but this is truly the evil side of Capitalism.
Universities need to be reformed.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)When I was at UofA Fayetteville (1980) the Physics Dept. needed upgrading or lose accreditation. Instead, Little Rock spent $2M on an indoor tennis court. Just sayin'...
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,112 posts)Why nurses, of all groups?
Tikki
(14,557 posts)Follow his political history from meeting with energy companies through to his embarrassing end.
Tikki
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,112 posts)And there are conservatives in CA with children who deny it. They listen to those saying it is happening, but not for bad. There are as many explanations for climate change as there are versions of Christianity. Not by accident.
JI7
(89,248 posts)state like California which is almost like being a national leader of a top country needs people who can actually govern and do the job. Just having the right positions on various issues is not enough .
Moostache
(9,895 posts)This nations' values are clear to anyone wishing to look...
Do we care about education?
Ask an elementary teacher spending part of their own paltry wages on supplies...
Do we care about healthcare?
Ask these nurses about access to widespread and pervasive testing...
Do we care about small businesses?
Ask those who are bankrupt right now about this country's love of them...
Do we care about meaningless entertainment?
See how many hoops are being jumped through for football season right now or the NBA and MLB recently...
Do we care about truth and honest journalism?
Tell me how many people believe Facebook nonsense and yet 'doubt' the experts on virology or climate science or simple goddamn math!
We care about 'likes' and 'favs' and 'tags' and nonsense above everything else. Vacuous entertainment and vehicles for marketing more and bigger and flashier shit we can't afford and do not need...
This society is terminally ill and the patient (our habitable climate zones) are already on ventilators. We will all be gone in 100 years time because there is no common good to rally around any longer and no willingness to compromise, collaborate or even logically debate the issues at hand. The faster the better for the rest of life on Earth.
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)kacekwl
(7,016 posts)Unless the whole student body gets to attend free then these schools with massive football/ basketball programs along massive tv contracts and massive coach/staff salaries should be ended. Not to mention pro ball. These teams should pay for their own tests and wait in line way behind healthcare workers and other essential workers.
Oldem
(833 posts)I found the entire Seattle Times story, read it, and switched from an NFL game to a movie. There are lots of reasons to shun the NFL, college football too. But this one is particularly egregious and indefensible. The only way to bring these SOBs in line is to stop consuming their product, in massive numbers.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)Despite stated priorities, I'd bet the professional and college sports teams get the Covid vaccinations before healthcare workers. Follow the money.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,853 posts)the football culture in this country, is that no one has ever attacked during a Superbowl. Although, it would be best to wait for a year when the Washington Football Team is playing. Especially if they win, it would be days before anyone in DC would notice.
George II
(67,782 posts)bdamomma
(63,846 posts)Nurses and Drs. on the front line aren't being tested and the UCLA Athletic Department is. SMH.
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Meowmee
(5,164 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I don't know if that would affect regional or national supplies to any large degree. I imagine they developed their own test for students, faculty, etc.
I don't know if UCLA is doing the same. Regardless, perhaps universities could help provide testing.
I don't know how the supply chain organization works, except to say it was the Trump Administration's duty to make testing available to everyone. That is what pisses me off, not that the Athletic Dept can test.
Holy shit, thats fucked up!