NBA legend and current TNT analyst Charles Barkley is not a fan of the anti-vaxxers. It was just last month when he appeared on CNBC and blasted people across the US who refuse to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
“Can you imagine if one of these guys that are not vaccinated, if they get one of these players’ kids, wives, girlfriends, moms and dads sick and they die over some unnecessary conspiracy bullshit,” Barkley said. “I think that would be tragic.”
“There’s shit you can’t do at work and there’s shit that have to do at work,” he added. “So every workplace has rules, and I think one of the rules [should be] that guys have to be vaccinated.”
The NBA legend, while guest co-hosting Thursday’s episode of “The Mike Missanelli Show” on Philadelphia’s 97.5 The Fanatic, questioned exactly what point some athletes were trying to make by continuosly railing against getting the vaccine.
“For us to be selfish and not trying to help the world get back where we can take these stupid masks off and go out to dinner in a full restaurant, I just think it’s selfish,” said Barkley, 58, who is fully vaccinated.
“I’ve heard these idiots talk about chips in it, and I heard people talking about [the government] wants to follow us around,” the basketball Hall of Famer added of conspiracy theories surrounding the shots. “They can follow us around anyway. Everybody got a cellphone. And first of all, what are you doing that you’re worried about people following you?”
The conspiracy theories circling on social media are easily one of the biggest obstacles why most people will continue to fight against the vaccine.
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As of late July, 90% of NBA players were vaccinated, according to players’ union executive director Michelle Roberts.
New York and San Francisco will not allow unvaccinated players to participate in games or team activities.
“This follows local governmental policies, meaning unvaccinated players on the Nets, Knicks and Warriors are not allowed to play in home games,” Stadium’s Shams Charania wrote on Wednesday. “Visiting players are exempt from the vaccination requirements in NYC and SF.”
