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WHITT

(2,868 posts)
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 01:13 PM Apr 2021

Get Ready For The RightWing Screaming

Fully vaccinated baseball fans will be granted their own section at the Los Angeles Dodgers game this weekend against the San Diego Padres.

The set-aside seats, reported by The Los Angeles Times, are part of the many incentives being offered — from doughnuts to beer — to encourage people to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The Miami Heat and the San Francisco Giants have introduced similar sections at their stadiums.


More at:

[link:https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2021-04-21/dodgers-stadium-vaccinated-fan-seats-padres|
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world wide wally

(21,755 posts)
4. Good move. I hope they are the best seats in the park.
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 02:35 PM
Apr 2021

I am a firm believer in "if you're too stupid to get it. Fuck you"

Warpy

(111,359 posts)
5. Carrots always work better than sticks
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 02:49 PM
Apr 2021

so if antivaxxers can't get the good seats, maybe some of them will reconsider, in a contest between sports and dogma, sports often seem to win out.

Demobrat

(8,994 posts)
6. They'll just look for ways to cheat
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 02:53 PM
Apr 2021

If money can be counterfeited so can those little cardboard cards.

Warpy

(111,359 posts)
8. Of course they will
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 02:57 PM
Apr 2021

and then catch Covid from vaccinated people in the crowd shedding virus (but nob becoming ill).

Most will lack the ambition, the access, or both. They will just whine about cancel culture instead of acknowledging their own stupidity.

WHITT

(2,868 posts)
12. Unfortunately
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 03:40 PM
Apr 2021

there's already PDFs of the blank vaccination cards floating around. All you have to do is print and fill it in. I see a lawsuit coming, hopefully not from a death. They could move to having the state seal stamped on the cards, but that can be forged as well.

They need to move to a digitally accessed card. It wouldn't be impossible to fake, but it would be difficult.

Demobrat

(8,994 posts)
16. Except that people like my 87 year old mother
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 06:03 PM
Apr 2021

would not be able to deal with it. Of course she’s not going to sporting events, and she does have help.

Not everyone is computer literate though, and not all of those who are not have anybody to help them deal with technology.

It’s been challenging enough to get the vaccine to people like that.

Not that I know what the answer is. But putting everything on line leaves people out.

WHITT

(2,868 posts)
19. It Could Be Displayed On A Phone
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 07:10 PM
Apr 2021

like a grandchild's photo. Or as a last resort, it could be loaded to a card, like a credit card, and scanned or waved like a credit card. If updating is required, it can be auto-updated or one-click updated on the phone, but a card would require a visit to a health department.

Demobrat

(8,994 posts)
20. If they have a smart phone.
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 07:57 PM
Apr 2021

Not everyone does. The card idea is better IMO. Something with a photo and a signature on it. Or maybe there’s a choice. Like credit card or Apple Pay. I would like to see some sort of secure ID developed. Heck I would like it if the unvaccinated wore scarlet U’s on their foreheads, but that’s just me.

HUAJIAO

(2,401 posts)
13. Who wants to watch cars drive around in a circle,
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 04:06 PM
Apr 2021

over and over and over again for 500 miles??
I don't get it...

Deep State Witch

(10,460 posts)
10. THey're Already Screaming
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 03:01 PM
Apr 2021

I was called an idiot three times this morning on the WaPo comment section about this.

Frankly, I don't see the discrimination here. Unvaccinated people are free to go to the ballpark and sit in any other section. You just have to show proof of vaccination to sit in that one particular section (hopefully, it's behind home plate). It's not like you are being barred from entering, or being relegated to the bleacher seats, the way that African Americans used to be.

The perpetual victimhood of the RWNJs is astounding.

TheBlackAdder

(28,222 posts)
11. Screaming might be a welcome change to their incessant whining.
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 03:14 PM
Apr 2021

.

WaPo comments is just a hair above the cesspool of Yahoo.

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orleans

(34,075 posts)
14. great! let me just get my fake vaccination card.....
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 04:12 PM
Apr 2021

(what i imagine will be happening. remember those stupid cards people were carrying that said they didn't have to wear a mask for medical reasons?)

TexasBushwhacker

(20,219 posts)
18. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 06:52 PM
Apr 2021

That's the way to do it. Of course, being able to get vaccine should be enough of a reward, but some folks just need that extra push.

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