I saw a headline somewhere yesterday that said, "The NBA led us into covid, the NFL will lead us out."

Point being, it's too hard, both physically and logistically, to cancel football games and replay them within short periods of time. The league and the players have known all fall that most of these guys testing "positive" are not showing symptoms and aren't sick and now the almighty dollar is forcing the NFL to confront the truth and act more realistically. No more regular testing of asymptomatic vaccinated players.

It doesn't go far enough for my taste: whether or not someone is vaccinated has nothing to do with their asymptomatic contagiousness. In fact, it's probably the other way around, but it's a step in the right direction and society will eventually come to the conclusion that testing healthy people does nothing but provide disruption.

FWIW - that's a big part of Brandon's logic for the 500M additional tests. They have to keep the pandemic going another year so that they can justify using mail in ballots. That's all this is.