Ex-NFL player now on the frontlines against coronavirus

Myron Rolle, a former NFL safety who is now a neurosurgery resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, describes the similarities in battling his opponents on the field and fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

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    1. AMEEN YAH RAHBI ALAHMINA MASHA ALLAH πŸ˜‡πŸ™πŸΌπŸ™πŸΌπŸ™πŸΌπŸ‘Œ

    1. @Johnny Pena President Trump is a wise and patient gentleman that does not appreciate people disrespecting the highest office in the land as if it is a hollow titular role after the nonsensical fanboying the fake news media carried on their schedules over Obama. President was celebrated endlessly for waffling and equivocating for 8 years and delivering nought but tax cuts for the largest corporations and allowing a US government official to be left to die due to a daft misadventures in Libya-Northern Africa.

    2. aljanat5 you should really be looking at current events that will lead to future economic failure. Hope you’re still working because millions aren’t. So much for the greatest economy.

    3. We’re a great country. We’ll rebound quickly from this. It’s scary right now, but we’ll be back and better than ever before when it’s all said and done

  1. Not even in his 40s and already a NFL player and a NEUROSURGERY resident…He’s the male version of Barbie

    1. @98LowDown
      Trump is part of the problem and I’m a black Republican of 4 decades. Trump is a Confederate president.

    1. @Iris maybe you should look up his interviews and interviews from when he was this guys age. They are similar. Obviously you weren’t paying attention during Ben’s heyday.

    2. Just Suzie Then Ben has past his heyday. He looks & sounds drugged. If I was choosing a neurosurgeon, Carson’s affect would not instil any confidence.

  2. Now this is someone to look up to for all the great work he’s done, thanks to all the ones on the front lines!! GO TEAM!!! ❀️❀️❀️

  3. Good report CNN. This is actually a pretty good story. This guy needs to be paraded as a role model for American youth.

    1. @Simply Ridiculous I respect the man. Now that I have said that, I deeply despise the culture of personality that fawns over and ego boosts a normal working person as if they are somehow about natural. The Greeks did it with Omypians with good reason because achieving supremacy in the heat of physical contest was a true once in a lifetime achievement whereas there are literally thousands of Neurology residents across the US, one man is not above any of them on the basis that he was physically and mentally gifted enough to compete on an NFL pitch and also for the record, CNN did not rank him according to his career stats or contextualise his teams win loss record with him as a regular starter.

      All I am saying, is people should be judged with a calm head and an assessment of all facts, not just the shiny head line grabbing sensationalist ones. I respect the Dr but he is simply not the Second Coming and showering him with praise for pulling overtime shifts like everyone else is a bit disrespectful to the others that have been doing it longer and for more years.

      Facts matter and they do not care about our feelings bro. Be well and keep things in context, do not allow CNN or other news media to trigger emotional responses that short circuit your rational scrutiny of a person in the wider context of the class they are a part of, be it NFL players, kids from New Jersey or Neurologists. As salaam ualaykum πŸ˜‰

  4. Hope that we give these people who are fighting to save lives medals even the janitors and Orderlies heroes all of them

    1. Not heroes. But they have definitely proved their worth in gold and should be financially compensated before the year is out. Establish a trustfund for them.

    2. @Rastor Oyola in order for them to be paid millions, they would have to be able to generate millions and that is not the case. Who would fund that amount of money? The patients will not the people who can afford to back that up.

    3. @Just Suzie This. The money would have to come from somewhere. Just giving them millions I don’t think i financially or practically gonna be possible.

      But we *do* owe them some kind of compensation for their extreme dedication, risks and sacrifices, in what is looking poised to possibly become the biggest crunch to save Americans lives on a path to death, in our entire history. Not just in peace time, but including civil and world war. Some kind of compensation that is worthy, and go beyond the absolute mandatory ones of symbolism and honorary.

      It’s really important, it cannot be understated, that both leadership and the public understands. While we talk a lot of these parallels to war, as it’s really the only thing most of us have even _heard_ of in modern time that have caused suffering and death on this scale and severity… These people on the never ending never pausing frontlines in this – _They are not soliders._ They are ordinary civilian medical workers and support staff. They did not sign up for this. They have not been prepared, educated or trained for anything like this. They barely have the resources to _try_ to not get sick and die themselves. They were almost running on just skeleton crew _before_ this thing hit us. And they still likely have _months_ of this kind of living nightmare ahead of them.

      That also makes it extremely, glaringly obvious that these people will not just suffer while this goes on. This will haunt a very big portion of them, that survive this, for the rest of their lives. The level of severe, cronic PTSD among them will likely be orders of magnitude beyond what we’ve experienced with the men and women of out armed forces. We need to have the support structure they’re gonna need when this dies down – in place before that happens. And their families. They and all of us are sadly very likely to lose thousands of them across the country, to suicide in the times beyond this crisis.

      We need to make sure these people are taken care care of in suffering, fear, compassion, honor – and death – like they took care of us.

  5. His parents must be so proud to have a son dedicated to his academics while playing a sport that he could play in the NFL and be a doctor as well.πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

  6. I remember this guy. He was a beast on the field. From high school to college. He have it up to go to oxford. Big respect !!

    1. Dedication to the sport most likely. It’s easy to lose interest in football when you have other opportunities in life.

    1. @Tom Adams Damn dude you’re a weirdo. Seem like you’re a Looser. If your personality on the internet is the same way in real life, I’m sure your still a virgin.

    2. @Linda Rose Stewart trump’ can easily be compared to person of ignorance and negligence selfish bastard

  7. We so appreciate what all the Doctors, Nurses, and first Responders are doing for us on the front line of it all. Thank You Sir!

  8. MYRON, WE LOVE YOU, BUT DAHLIN, YOU NEED TO GET SOME REST! YOU AND DR. FAUCI NEED SOME REST! πŸ’–πŸ™πŸΎ

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