{"id":1432024,"date":"2022-04-11T23:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432024"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:29:42","slug":"sixers-guard-to-miss-playoff-games-due-to-not-being-fully-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sixers-guard-to-miss-playoff-games-due-to-not-being-fully-vaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers Guard to Miss Playoff Games Due to Not Being &#039;Fully Vaccinated&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsixers-guard-to-miss-playoff-games-due-to-not-being-fully-vaccinated%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432024&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Philadelphia 76ers guard\u00a0Matisse Thybulle confirmed on Sunday that he will not be able to participate in the team\u2019s road playoff games against the Toronto Raptors, as he is not \u201cfully\u201d vaccinated, explaining that he comes from a \u201cholistic household.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was raised in a holistic household where anti-vax was not a term that was used,\u201d the Sixers guard said in an opening statement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a weird term that\u2019s been thrown around to just label people, but we grew up with Chinese medicine and naturopathic doctors and with that upbringing, coming into this situation, I felt like I had a solid foundation of medical resources that could serve me beyond what this vaccine could do for me,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs things escalated and as this situation has played out, I\u2019ve obviously had to reconsider and look at it differently,\u201d he said, explaining that he considered getting vaccinated during the playoffs last year and, as a result, got a single jab of the Pfizer shot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/matisse-thybulle-of-the-philadelphia-76ers-smiles-prior-to-the-game-picture-id1239905681?k=20&#038;m=1239905681&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=5Y1vbQMSDBy1QPaHQRyaX0TlIG-8gOeEdufMsi0yaE8=\" alt=\"Matisse Thybulle of the Philadelphia 76ers smiles prior to the game against the Detroit Pistons at the Wells Fargo Center on April 10, 2022 in...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>7<em>6ers guard Matisse Thybulle (Mitchell Leff\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Like many others, the player said he was initially \u201cunder the impression that getting vaccinated means that I could not get the disease and transmit it to other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like if I\u2019m going to be a part of society in the position I\u2019m in, I need to do what\u2019s right for the greater good. That argument of the greater good held a lot of weight for me,\u201d he said, adding that the narrative changed and \u201cit just showed to the science that that wasn\u2019t the case anymore, that even while being vaccinated, you can still spread the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At that point, Thybulle said, he no longer felt like the \u201cgreater good\u201d argument applied, as the vaccine was not protecting other people after all, as the disease continued to transmit to others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026with that being considered and the holistic background of my upbringing and just the way I view medicine in general, I felt like I was secure in going to the doctors that I have to treat COVID if I did get it and in the case that I did, I was able to go about it in my holistic way and I\u2019m able to sit here today healthy and be OK because of it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Because of that decision \u2014 to only get one Pfizer jab \u2014 Thybulle will be unable to play in the games 3 and 4, which will be in Canada, which requires travelers to be fully vaccinated:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matisse Thybulle&#8217;s opening statement on his decision to not get fully vaccinated. Thybulle has had one dose of the Pfizer vaccine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t1gkTWksvk\">pic.twitter.com\/t1gkTWksvk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Derek Bodner (@DerekBodnerNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DerekBodnerNBA\/status\/1513344217879351302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I just didn&#8217;t feel like it would benefit me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matisse Thybulle will be unavailable for road games against Toronto because he is not fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSPhilly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBCSPhilly<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4PIIxx6Qy3\">pic.twitter.com\/4PIIxx6Qy3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooSports\/status\/1513347818353672197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sixers?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sixers<\/a> wing Matisse Thybulle on why he\u2019s not vaccinated: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/slubnLyVhn\">pic.twitter.com\/slubnLyVhn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Moore (@TomMoorePhilly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomMoorePhilly\/status\/1513335695645069316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Sixers, the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference, face off against the Toronto Raptors Saturday, April 16, in the states.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes weeks after New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D), who recently tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, made waves after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/24\/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-mocked-after-dropping-vax-mandate-for-performers-and-athletes-but-not-private-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exempting<\/a> performers and athletes from the city\u2019s private sector vaccine requirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers guard\u00a0Matisse Thybulle confirmed on Sunday that he will not be able to participate in the team\u2019s road playoff games against the Toronto Raptors, as he is not \u201cfully\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}