Athlete with Lyme disease says WNBA asked her to 'risk her life or forfeit her paycheck'
On July 25th, the WNBA will begin its 2020 season in Florida in what has been dubbed as the “wubble,” a bubble of dormitory-style housing and workout facilities that will theoretically enable them to conduct their season without spreading covid-19.show the living conditions are subpar and downright disgusting in some areas. Rat traps litter the floor and a particularly dirty laundry room appeared to be fostering mold.
A few days later, the league’s panel of doctors — without ever once speaking to me or to either of my doctors — informed me that they were denying my request for a health exemption.If Delle Donne opts out of the 2020 season the WNBA will not be obligated to pay her salary for the year. “I don’t have,” she writes in her letter. “I don’t have the desire to go to war with the league on this. And I can’t appeal. What I hear in their decision is that I’m a fool for believing my doctor.
But, as Delle Donne writes in her letter, she is one of many people who have been forced to choose between a paycheck and maintaining their health during the coronavirus epidemic, which has highlighted the Grand Canyon-sized gaps in protection for people’s jobs. But this particular case also highlights the ongoing need for more financial investment in women’s sports and particularly the WNBA.
The WNBA, which is sponsored by AT&T and Nike, hasn’t given a reason why their players are being forced to play or forgo their salary. But until the health of women in sports is considered the important investment that every worker’s safety should be, everyone will just have to deal with their own hellish wubbles.
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