Should Survivor Require Coronavirus Vaccines?

With a lot of Survivor filmed for future seasons and ready to air at least one season in the future, we have to wonder about the future beyond it before making sure what we love and enjoy comes back. But there is an issue with more seasons. Since there is a vaccine against the coronavirus, you would have to wonder if they should require that new contestants get it in order to play the game.

 

This post won’t be talking too much about why you should get the vaccine against coronavirus or the needless politics of this as I have three other blogs where I can and do discuss politics instead. Everyone should get the vaccine against the coronavirus. My question is if any Survivor contestant or, indeed, anyone else who works for Survivor should be required to be vaccinated.

 

I don’t know much about how Big Brother does casting related to the pandemic. But I do know that they had to replace one of the contestants planned for the currently airing season before it started since they had a positive test. This would make it likely that they weren’t vaccinated against it, although there is still about a 5% chance of getting it with the vaccine.

 

I bring this up because it is likely that two different CBS reality shows would likely have the same sort of casting process going on, even now with a pandemic still ongoing. That would mean that if someone is not required to get it on Big Brother (although this is still unconfirmed by me and just speculative on my part), then it would seem unlikely that Survivor would be much different. But this might not be the case in the end as Survivor isn’t filmed in this country like Big Brother is.

 

I also wouldn’t know if things were different from the start of the 41^st season or first post pandemic one since the vaccine wasn’t widely available then. Seasons that come after it might be different, even if they have already been filmed now or will end up being filmed in the future.

 

But there is another reason that vaccines are a good idea. No contestant would want to be medically evacuated from the game and that might have to happen if they get coronavirus. Of course, it might be even more complicated than that as I speculated in a previous blog post. If you get medically evacuated from Survivor, you can’t win the game. That alone should be reason why it could be required. But the main question is whether or not they can force it. I can only hope that there is a good middle ground with all of the options available since they don’t want to violate contestants’ rights or the rights or those who make the show either and you can’t force them to get vaccinated.

 

I would say that it be highly recommended that people get the vaccine if they want to do Survivor in the future without outright forcing it as that would probably be illegal. I would think that this would mean that the producers of the show are looking out for what’s best for the contestants while also doing what is best legally and in other ways too. For this, this is Adam Decker, signing off.