The news is out: Aaron Rodgers, NFL Green Bay Packers Quarterback, is not playing because he caught COVID.
That's not the stupid part. The stupid part is he actually petitioned the NFL to consider him vaccinated even though he was not, because he claimed that he's "immunized" back in August for "alternate treatment" as reported by ESPN.
What was the alternate treatment? Homeopathy. That's right, he got some homeopathic treatment from his doctor (BTW, homeopathy is pseudoscience) who claimed will raise his antibody counts. With that, Rodgers went to the league claiming he's as good as vaccinated. The league disagreed and kept him listed as unvaccinated. And now he caught COVID. Hah!
But he's not backing down and admit he's dumb. He doubled down. He went to a talk show and claim that he's quite healthy, he's getting monoclonal antibody treatment, he's taking horse dewormer (Ivermectin), and he's taking vitamins and minerals.
And he insisted that when he answered that he was "immunized", he was not lying. People just didn't ask what he REALLY meant by that, and he would have explained if people asked.
What a weasel.
But obviously it's not his fault... "it was a witch hunt that was going on across the league", he said.
Rodgers claimed he conducted a lot of research (with his "medical team"), decided that he's allergic to one ingredient in two of the three vaccines available, and when the third one was paused for investigation of blood clots, he decided he won't get ANY of the vaccines.
But he has to do something to appease the NFL, so he came up with this "long-term protocol that involved multiple months", and tried to petition the league to declare that's as good as being vaccinated. The league disagreed, but Rodgers decided to play the victim, stating "I know I'm not going to win this."
His "medical team" told him the risk of an adverse event (to the vaccine) is greater than catching COVID and recovering from it.
Rodgers claims he's NOT an antivaxxer, but he chose NOT to mask up at a public event because he did not believe masks work, despite league rules and being 10 ft from the nearest reporter. Why? Because he believes the rules are not based on science. Does he have proof? Nope.
Rodgers actually believes he's SAFER than vaccinated people because he takes a COVID test DAILY.
In other words, he's so f***ing rich (his contract is worth 134 million USD) he can afford to f*** around. Anyone checked how much COVID tests cost recently? Sure, he can AFFORD it, but he caught COVID ANYWAY. So it proves whatever he did, it didn't work. UPDATE: Turns out the daily test was an agreement between NFL and NFL Player's Association for all unvaxxed or partially-vaxxed players. He wasn't even paying for them!
But he's too entitled to see that he was fed a bunch of crap info by his "medical team". According to reports, Rodgers apparently printed out like 500+ pages of crap that he tried to use as evidence to get NFL to accept his "regimen" as equivalent to a COVID vaccination. According to Madison State Journal, NFL's medical team could not find a SINGLE peer-reviewed research in the 500+ pages Rodgers turned in. It is basically crap.
The short of it is he doesn't believe the CDC or the FDA, or any protocols NFL developed with them. Not on vaccines, not on masks. Nothing. And of course, he considers himself a "critical thinker".
Ever heard of Dunning-Kruger Effect, Mr. Rodgers? You may be smart, but you're not smart enough to realize... you're not smart enough.
You're not a critical thinker. You just think you are.
And the sooner you admit it, the better.
EDIT: New report from anon source near Rodgers claims that Rodgers is upset
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