People are free to wonder and ask about his reasons, and he is free to say as much or as little as he chooses to say in response, and people are free to keep right on talking and asking about it. Washington State is equally free to require vaccinations, as schools have wisely done for a long time, and to impose consequences to protect the health and safety of its community. He’s free to refuse to explain himself even a little bit, whether he has one of the vanishingly rare legitimate reasons not to get the shots or whether he’s under the influence of bad ideas. The contours of this pushback have been dominated by freedom talk and completely missing any mention of consequence and responsibility, as though freedom is some teen dream of pure liberty – do whatever dumb thing you want, put yourself and others at risk, with no repercussion or cost. That’s the part that goes missing among the clarion calls of freedom among the anti-vaxxers, and particularly in the idiot wind blowing from politically motivated anti-vaxxers that is nourishing the pandemic when it could have been defeated. But it would also be an excellent way for Washington State University to clearly emphasize – to Rolovich and to its students, faculty and staff, as well as the now-watching world – that its commitment to vaccination and the safety of all is not subject to a glib, unexplained veto by a coach.įor Rolovich, the highest-paid and highest-profile Cougar as its football coach, it would be a potent reminder of something the young people he leads are told constantly: Choices have consequences. It would be a real pain in the neck, this highly unlikely hypothetical. Think of the high-pressure distress when his connection glitches out on a key fourth-and-inches call. Imagine the amusing mixups over muting and unmuting. Just pipe him in from some faraway basement, calling plays and hollering formations by Zoom. Maybe Wazzu ought to make Nick Rolovich do all of his coaching remotely.

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