After clearing waivers earlier today, it was expected that Blue Jackets winger Zac Rinaldo would be assigned to Columbus’ AHL team in Cleveland. The veteran wasn’t invited to training camp after declining to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. However, GM Jarmo Kekalainen released the following statement, announcing that Rinaldo will not be going there after all:
Our position has been very clear that our organization is committed to doing everything we can to ensure the health and safety of our players, coaches, staff and fans. Given the impact COVID-19 continues to have in our communities, we believe the best course of action given Zac’s vaccination status is to not have him report to Cleveland at this time. While we respect an individual’s right to make a personal choice with regards to being vaccinated or not, we have a responsibility to do what we believe is best for our organization. We will honor Zac’s contract, but if he wants to pursue any other opportunities to play this season we will allow him to do so.
Rinaldo’s contract calls for an AHL salary of $275K and contains a guaranteed payment of $300K which the Blue Jackets will be on the hook for regardless of whether or not he plays anywhere this season. In the meantime, Rinaldo’s camp may be on the lookout to try to find the 31-year-old a place to play outside the Columbus organization. Now that he has cleared waivers, Columbus could loan him to an unaffiliated team overseas, for example. Rinaldo had spent the last two seasons in Calgary’s system, suiting up in 23 games for the Flames in that time.
100% NOT about safety and looking after people and 100% about control. The difference between rinaldo and kekalainin is that rinaldo has a greater chance of showing symptoms and possibly dying while also building up his immune system
^ Keep drinking the Kool-Aid bud.
I don’t understand why they think the Covid vaccine is the only medication that Bill Gates can plant mind control chips inside.
As if we haven’t been putting mind control chips in their insulin and cholesterol drugs for years.
Just silly.
Your tin foil cap is too tight
Yeah, I guess the 16 to 2 vote by the CDC advisory committee to not have people under 65 get the booster shot means they’re in on the conspiracy too, right?
As for Zac, I’m glad the Jackets are out $300,000 to pay him not to play. Wish it were more.
Theres nothing tin foily or any conspiracy about allowing the body to do what it was designed to and heal itself. I got covid twice and all twas a slight cold for a couple days. Me and my immune system will be aight.
Has absolutely nothing to do with anything in the shot itself.
I thought i made it clear why its a power issue, him not being vaccinated doesnt increase the odds of anything other than showing symptoms. So there should really be no issue with him being around his teammates.
Wait, are you trying to spin the CDC saying that the two doses are holding up so well that (based on very limited current data) under 65 doesn’t need a booster right now (BUT that over 65 does need it and the CDC approved it) as a way of trying to hint at or claim that the vaccine is somehow bad?
Josh, if you actually watched the hearing or read the transcript from it, you would know that the reason they voted 16-2 against approving the booster shot for those under 65 was due to the risk of the booster outweighing any potential benefits.
And it was one bureaucrat (initials RW) who overrode the advisory counsel. But science, eh?
Exactly, it’s so risky that they approved third doses for old people, did not revoke any prior approvals for anyone and are about to approve it for kids as young as 5.
And when they have more data, they will approve third shots for under 65 because it was a lack of data, not awareness of previously unknown risk as you want to portray that led to that decision at that time.
Have you ever heard of the risk vs reward theory? If you are elderly and not in good health, the reward may be better to get vaxxed. The opposite is true for healthy young people.
But had you actually listened to some of the comments made by members of the advisory panel, you might not keep repeating misinformation here.
Rinaldo has his freedom.
And, now, lots of free time.
It’s nice that you just keep radicalizing peoples valid concerns with the vaccine and comparing to those of the crazies. It shows that you watch your one news channel and unless they report it it’s not true. I think Jonathan Issac said it best.
I would gladly address a legitimate concern about the vaccine. I’ve yet to hear one based on actual facts based in reality.
I have heard one seemingly reasonable concern based on what at first glance seems like reasonable logic, “we don’t know the long term side effects” but it falls apart in context.
“OK, sure…2,000 people are dying a day right now BUT one day 8 years from now, someone could die from the vaccine” is fuzzy math. Ignoring actual current real world danger because of the statistically unlikely potential for theoretical dangers later is a dubious strategy.
The mere fact that you claim to know of no good reasons to not get vaxxed clarifies why you are so ignorant on the subject. Preeminent epidemiologists and even the original inventor of mRNA technology have in great detail given reasons as to why healthy young people should not be vaccinated, yet you claim to know of no good counter argument to your vax position.
As I’ve said before, invincible ignorance.
Invincible ignorance is…saying the thing that is actually killing 2,000 people a day is of more concern than the theoretical concern of possible later issues…? In Backwards Land, maybe.
Hundreds of people who would otherwise not die are dying each day because they came to believe bad information on the vaccine. They ask for the vaccine right before intubation after it’s too late. Had they not been misinformed, they would be alive today. It’s a shame that people continue to spread misinformation that leads to the deaths of hundreds of people who would otherwise not die per day.
How many of those 2000 people you mention are aged 65 or under? You have no idea. In fact, your only talent seems to be reguritating what you watched on CNN.
If therapeutics that have been widely available in the past had been perscribed at the outset of symptoms, many of these people would never have gotten to the point of being put on ventilators, which is basically a death sentence. Instead, the jab, jab, jab crowd cuts off access to those very life saving medicines. Wonder why?
Depends…
Do you mean Regeneron, which actually does work even if it costs $1200 a dose and has to be administered early in the infection process to work so you don’t die in the lobby of the Jacksonville public library? Like saying I don’t need a parachute (vaccine) because there are people below the plane waiting with a tarp (antibodies)”.
Or do you mean the dewormer that people want to pretend is an anti-viral drug and does not work?
Because if you mean Regeneron, so be it, it does work…but you undercut all of the previous talking points used against the vaccine since Regeneron is not FDA approved (it’s only an emergency approval), it’s new and hasn’t been tested for long, etc. etc.
And if you mean the other stuff, the CDC you SUDDENLY hold in such high regard says it’s utter bunk, so you don’t have to run to Tractor Supply today. Waste of time.
You are probably not aware that Penicillin is also used on horses just as Ivermectin is. So I guess anyone taking Penicillin is also a loon.
India has used Ivermectin quite effectively to combat corona illness. But that’s a backwater country, right?
I do admire the advisory panel at the CDC, but not the bureaucrats at the top that you follow like a pied piper. How’d that Remdesivir work out? Cheap, effective drugs like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine could have helped many people, but instead your big pharma companies had to cash in on people’s misery.
Over 6 billion jabs given. Shouldn’t we expect to see the problems the conspiracy theorists keep whispering about?
There is simply no reason for Rinaldo not to get his shots.
Maybe you should ask former 2017 Davis Cup winner tennis player Jeremy Chardy about why one might want to think twice about getting vaxxed.
Cool anecdotal example, bro.
There’s plenty more “anecdotal” stories just like his, bro.
A lot of you are debating the vaccine here rather than the very clear rules the CBJ set out. Rinaldo chose to do what he wanted and the Jackets did, too. End of story. Weird signing for Columbus and a lot of people didn’t want him anyway, so…bye.