Aaron Rodgers: Another Great Moment In Lack Of Self-Awareness
Being "silenced" doesn't meant what he thinks it means
NFL star Aaron Rodgers has hit out at Joe Biden after the US president said he wanted the Green Bay Packers to get vaccinated.
Mr Biden made the remark to a Packers fan as he toured an area of Kentucky devastated by tornadoes and told the fan, “Tell that quarterback he’s gotta get the vaccine.”
Rodgers, a friend of podcast host Joe Rogan, caught Covid in November after falsely implying that he had been vaccinated and claimed the NFL had a “two-class system” for vaccinated and unvaccinated players.
Now he has blasted the president in a new interview with ESPN.
“When the president of the United States says, ‘This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,’ it’s because him and his constituents, which, I don’t know how there are any if you watch any of his attempts at public speaking, but I guess he got 81 million votes,” said Rodgers.
“But when you say stuff like that, and then you have the CDC, which, how do you even trust them, but then they come out and talk about 75 per cent of the COVID deaths have at least four comorbidities.
“And you still have this fake White House set saying that this is the pandemic of the unvaccinated, that’s not helping the conversation.”
Not so very long ago, President Joe Biden referred to the COVID-19 pandemic as a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”- and he’s spot on. When you look at the fact that something like 95-98% of the COVID deaths currently are among the unvaccinated, it paints a picture. Also, an overwhelming percentage of COVID patients in hospital beds are unvaccinated. That only adds to the picture. If 95-98% of Americans were vaccinated, there’s an excellent chance this pandemic would be close to being over.
Unfortunately, it’s selfish, arrogant, know-it-alls like Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers who are responsible for prolonging the pandemic. What makes matters worse is his refusal to recognize and accept his part in making things worse. He lied about being vaccinated early in the NFL season, saying he was “immunized” without detailing what that meant. The reality was that he was doing his own thing outside accepted medical protocols and wasn’t vaccinated.
And he couldn’t understand why the NFL, the press, and football fans were angry with him over his duplicity. While other NFL players decided to play by the rules, Rodgers claimed he was allergic to an ingredient in the mRNA vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer (without specifying the component). He didn’t want to take the Johnson & Johnson. So instead of consulting a doctor, he consulted podcaster Joe Rogan and ended up on a regimen of Z-Pak, prednisolone, and ivermectin. That none of those treatments are approved for COVID-19 didn’t matter to Rodgers. He would do his own thing regardless of what the science said.
Over the past few weeks, Rodgers had become increasingly defensive about his poor decision-making. He’s whined publicly about being “canceled,” and he recently ranted about being “silenced” on a 28-minute phone call to ESPN.
Methinks “being silenced” doesn’t mean what Mr. Rodgers thinks it means.
I don’t begrudge him his right to believe as he sees fit, but when he begins to whine about being “canceled” or being “silenced” during a nationally-broadcast interview, someone needs to call “BULLSHIT!”
For him to blame the pandemic on the President and “his constituents” is the impotent bleating of someone who has nothing to offer in his defense. He’s not vaccinated, and he has no excuse for not being vaccinated- especially when the unvaccinated are responsible for so much of what’s happening now. That’s not me piling on; that’s the fact of the matter. This IS a pandemic of the unvaccinated, and no matter how much Aaron Rodgers bleats about being “silenced,” it doesn’t change the truth of the situation.
Rodgers may be a singular talent as an NFL quarterback, but he leaves much to be desired as a human being. His arrogance, over-inflated sense of entitlement, and over-cooked victim mentality have grown tiresome. Whatever credit he may once have had outside of Wisconsin is gone, and most who aren’t Packers fans see him- quite accurately- as a waste of humanity.
Aaron Rodgers could benefit from a heaping helping of self-awareness- like that’s going to happen. Not when he lacks the self-awareness to be honest with himself about his overheated victim mentality.
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