One NFL quarterback is not afraid of contracting COVID-19, even if it means potentially losing his life.
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins, who shared his thoughts about the coronavirus pandemic during an appearance on Spotify’s 10 Questions podcast hosted by NFL Network’s Kyle Brandt, also stressed that he adheres to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines to keep others around him safe.
Brandt asked, “If 1 is the person who says, ‘Masks are stupid; you’re all a bunch of lemmings,’ and 10 is, ‘I’m not leaving my master bathroom for the next 10 years,’ where do you land?” according to ESPN.
“I’m not gonna call anybody stupid, for the trouble it would get me in,” Cousins stated. “But I’m about a .000001.”
Brandt asked for an explanation, to which Cousins said that he’s comfortable with the possibility of contracting the virus if it meant allowing him to “go about my daily life.”
“I want to respect what other people’s concerns are. For me personally, just talking [that if] no one else can get the virus, what is your concern if you could get it? I would say I’m gonna go about my daily life. If I get it, I’m gonna ride it out. I’m gonna let nature do its course. Survival-of-the-fittest kind of approach, and just say, ‘If it knocks me out, it knocks me out.’ I’m going to be OK. You know, even if I die. If I die, I die. I kind of have peace about that. So, that’s really where I fall on it, so my opinion on wearing a mask is really about being respectful to other people. It really has nothing to do with my own personal thoughts.”
The NFL season is scheduled to kick off in a little more than a week and will more closely resemble Major League Baseball’s format of having teams play in their normal stadiums without fans. The NHL and NBA playoffs are currently taking place in bubble hubs. Some teams will have limited fans in the stadium, but most will be playing without fans, at least to start the season.
