The ongoing rampage of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic has worried nearly everyone. Well, apparently everyone except Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins. The nine-year veteran recently taped a podcast appearance several weeks ago with Kyle Brandt. He went on to stir the pot by claiming a handful of controversial statements.
At one point, Cousins was asked this question, via Andrew Krammer of the Minneapolis Star Tribune: “On a spectrum of one — masks are stupid and you’re all a bunch of lemmings — and 10 is I’m not leaving my master bathroom for 10 years, where do you land?”
“I’m not going to call anybody stupid for the trouble it could get me in, but I’m about a 0.0001,” he replied.
Cousins then further elaborated on his answer:
“I want to respect other people’s concerns, but for me personally, if you’re talking no one else can get the virus, what is your concern you could get it? I’d say I’m going to go about my daily life. If I get it, I’m going to ride it out. I’m going to 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. Even if I die, I die. I kind of have peace about that. 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 personal thoughts.”
Cousins definitely should have further thought about the impact of his statements, taking into consideration the influence that he possesses as a public figure. Notwithstanding his stance, the United States has already become a hotbed of coronavirus cases with over 6 million positive cases and 184,500 deaths thus far.
The worrying tally is only indicative of how dangerous the pandemic can be. Kirk Cousins can only hope that his statements won't come back to haunt him.
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