Just last week, ESPN host Sage Steele made headlines for expressing dissatisfaction with her employer’s mandatory Covid vaccination policy.
Now, Steele has already come down with Covid within a week of receiving the jab, and ESPN is suspending her regular noon “Sportscenter” slot for one week.
So much for Joe Biden telling Americans, “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”
Steele has also been removed from hosting the 2021 “espnW: Women + Sports Summit,” scheduled for later this month.
A source for Front Office Sports reported that Steele is being punished for the recent comments she made about ESPN’s parent company Walt Disney Co.
“I work for a company that mandates it and I had until September 30th to get it done or I’m out,” Steele said on former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler’s podcast last week.
“I respect everyone’s decision, I really do, but to mandate it is sick and it’s scary to me in many ways,” Steele added. “I just, I’m not surprised it got to this point, especially with Disney, I mean a global company like that.”
Steele got a Covid vaccine just days before the company’s deadline despite reluctantly admitting she “didn’t want to do it” and saying she felt “defeated” afterward.
I wish people would stop saying you can’t get covid with the shot. It supposed to lessen the symptoms. Babbling idiots.