The CDC has flip-flopped on numerous guidelines that have disrupted tens of millions of lives since early 2020. It now suggests that those exposed to the virus do not need to quarantine, there is no longer separate guidance for vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, students may stay in class after exposure, and it is no longer recommended that people without symptoms get tested.

“For me, I eliminate all of that. Don’t hear it. Don’t see it. I go home, go to my family, study, wake up the next day, come back and enjoy football. I hear everything obviously from the media and then when [the communications staff] preps me for whatever you guys are going to say, then I’m like, ‘Ah, I’ve got to answer this. All right, let me figure out something politically correct to say,'” Tagovailoa said.