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Aaron Rodgers lashes out against NFL, ‘woke mob’ in defense of vaccination status

Can't imagine what it must be like to live in the flyovers, next to a bay that's frozen half the year. No wonder he's such an insufferable dbag and jelly of the goat.

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I'd **** mercilessly with the media.

I'd cause them as much misery as possible. I'd want to cause as much misery as possible for all the people that live and die with what they have to say.

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Nobody would give a shit and then when you test positive everyone would know your lying ass wasn’t vaccinated all along.

He lied because he knew State Farm (an insurance company remember) would drop him for being an idiot who doesn’t believe in vaccines. You think they want someone like that representing an insurance company? Hell no.
 
Nobody would give a shit and then when you test positive everyone would know your lying ass wasn’t vaccinated all along.

Eh???

You must have missed the 55 million threads noting vaccinated people can become infected after a period of time.

At this point... too much HROT for the day. Posting between sets at the gym is too much.

Good day.
 
He’s a football player. I really don’t care if he’s vaccinated or not. Time for everyone to start to calm down over what others choose to do.
Things are moving in the right direction as it is, and a whole new age group became eligible for vaccination this week.
This is how things will be now.
Sure, but he is subject to league rules, and he is looking more and more like a nut job. I cannot imagine his agent approved of this interview. Big time advertisers don’t like to associate with nut jobs.
 
He’s a football player. I really don’t care if he’s vaccinated or not. Time for everyone to start to calm down over what others choose to do.
Things are moving in the right direction as it is, and a whole new age group became eligible for vaccination this week.
This is how things will be now.
You aren't following it if you think people are mad about his vaccination status. He lied about it and then now he's saying he didn't lie about it.

The guy is seriously delusional.
 
My fantasy football league has a term for Rodgers (we even have a Packers fan). It is not nice. And that was before this. Aaron can E.A.D.
 
You aren't following it if you think people are mad about his vaccination status. He lied about it and then now he's saying he didn't lie about it.

The guy is seriously delusional.

So, we’re actually mad about league rules, advertisers and if he was intentionally deceptive in his answer to reporters about his personal medical decisions? Yeah, that really doesn’t have much to do with football, but ok.
 
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He was looking like a homeless cat lady before this came out. Dude is going to retire and 10 years later you’re going to read about him running naked in the street somewhere. His tailspin has already started.
 
So, we’re actually mad about league rules, advertisers and if he was intentionally deceptive in his answer to reporters about his personal medical decisions? Yeah, that really doesn’t have much to do with football, but ok.
He was asked if he was vaccinated and his response was "Yea, I'm immunized."

He knew the intent of the question but in typical Aaron Rodgers style he likes to be a passive aggressive douche. Now, he's on the Pat McAfee show crying like a little bitch.
 
So the NFL said that as long as you were tested daily for Covid, you could go without the vaccine?

He chose to go without getting the vaccine, but he did get a daily Covid test?

He followed the guidelines; what is the problem here?

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That policy was publicly announced sometime along the way, and is somewhat of a standard policy for many organizations.

I guess it is (sort of) fair to ask if the Packers were keeping some sort of tabulation of the test results. They must have understood that he was on a program of daily testing. On the other hand, if Mr. Rogers was simply on the honor system, it is somewhat apparent that he was getting tested regularly ... so again, what is the problem?

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If there is an issue anywhere in this developing story, it is perhaps that words (once again) mean different things to different people. Mr. Rogers seems to consider that the word "Vaccinated" has a slightly different meaning from "Immunized."

My results of a Google search:

What is Vaccination?​

It is the drug (weak pathogen/ inactivated viruses) that is administered to a person to prevent the onset of a disease

What is Immunization?​

It is the body’s ability to generate an immune response naturally, or through vaccines. These methods build immunity or resistance towards a particular disease.

It would indeed appear that Mr. Rogers is well-versed on the subject ... and that the reporter was not well-versed on the subject. Additionally, Mr. Rogers seems quite conversant on immunization protocols, so it is clear that he was following somewhat of a specific program.
The issue most people are having is that he was asked DIRECTLY if he’d gotten vaccinated. He replied yes, I’m immunized. Which everyone took to mean he’d gotten the vaccine. If not an outright lie, it was deliberately deceptive. And now he’s trying to blame everything on the media.
 
The issue most people are having is that he was asked DIRECTLY if he’d gotten vaccinated. He replied yes, I’m immunized. Which everyone took to mean he’d gotten the vaccine. If not an outright lie, it was deliberately deceptive. And now he’s trying to blame everything on the media.
It’s like being asked if you’ve been loyal to your partner, and answering, yeah, I believe in monogamy.
 
I wonder if the new Pfizer COVID pills work if you dissolve them in someone's Gatorade when they're not looking? Just thinking of ways to have the best playoffs possible this year
 
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The issue most people are having is that he was asked DIRECTLY if he’d gotten vaccinated. He replied yes, I’m immunized. Which everyone took to mean he’d gotten the vaccine. If not an outright lie, it was deliberately deceptive. And now he’s trying to blame everything on the media.
This. It’s that simple. It’s like he’s a qb in high school, the school secretary asks if he passed the science test, he says instead of I passed, he says “I know the material.” 2 weeks later he flunks the midterm and has to miss the big game. And now he’s pissed at the high school (sorry no pic) secretary.
 
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What is interesting is the punctuation that the press is using in his response to the vaccine question. Someone decided to use a comma which slightly helps his double-talk. But what if it was actually a period?

Are you vaccinated?
Yeah, I’m immunized.
or
Yeah. I’m immunized.

Those sentences have different meanings and we don’t really know which is the right one because it was a verbal response transposed into text. Either way I’m going to assume it was the latter and he answered in the affirmative to the question, then added a comment about being immunized. That is the only way that the league should have been letting him out of the non-vaccinated player protocol. So dude is a dirt bag that doesn’t care about his teammates, lies to them, his employer, his employer’s governing body, and the public.
 
He’s a football player. I really don’t care if he’s vaccinated or not. Time for everyone to start to calm down over what others choose to do.
Things are moving in the right direction as it is, and a whole new age group became eligible for vaccination this week.
This is how things will be now.
He lied. I know Trump normalized lying for a lot of you people but it’s not cool.
 
I think it would have been less a big deal if he had not been showing other signs the last 12 months of not being right in the head. The way he handled being at GB even into the season, his disheveled homeless look and now lying and crying about this in a rant point to him becoming the Mel Gibson of the NFL.
 
Aaron has failed his teammates and the Packer organization.
He is the most important person on that TEAM, and he knows this, as well as his teammates and his organization. He is compensated accordingly. And everyone understands this, too.
However, with privilege and rank come responsibility. This would include doing things that although you personally don’t agree with, they do have the best interests and best outcomes of others in mind. Aaron...quit being a selfish little 3rd grader...get your damned shots and be done with it! Basically you have told your employer to phuque off and given your teammates a middle finger.
GOAT, perhaps. Asshole of the week...unanimous choice! Aaron Rodgers is just another way of saying “ douche bag”...
 
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So the NFL said that as long as you were tested daily for Covid, you could go without the vaccine?

He chose to go without getting the vaccine, but he did get a daily Covid test?

He followed the guidelines; what is the problem here?

.........................

That policy was publicly announced sometime along the way, and is somewhat of a standard policy for many organizations.

I guess it is (sort of) fair to ask if the Packers were keeping some sort of tabulation of the test results. They must have understood that he was on a program of daily testing. On the other hand, if Mr. Rogers was simply on the honor system, it is somewhat apparent that he was getting tested regularly ... so again, what is the problem?

...........................

If there is an issue anywhere in this developing story, it is perhaps that words (once again) mean different things to different people. Mr. Rogers seems to consider that the word "Vaccinated" has a slightly different meaning from "Immunized."

My results of a Google search:

What is Vaccination?​

It is the drug (weak pathogen/ inactivated viruses) that is administered to a person to prevent the onset of a disease

What is Immunization?​

It is the body’s ability to generate an immune response naturally, or through vaccines. These methods build immunity or resistance towards a particular disease.

It would indeed appear that Mr. Rogers is well-versed on the subject ... and that the reporter was not well-versed on the subject. Additionally, Mr. Rogers seems quite conversant on immunization protocols, so it is clear that he was following somewhat of a specific program.

Shut the phuck up
 
Look, I’m not some sort of anti-vax flat-Earther. I’m somebody who’s a critical thinker.’ You guys know me. I march to the beat of my own drum.
“I believe strongly in bodily autonomy and the ability to make choices for your body, not to have to acquiesce to some woke culture or crazed group of individuals who say you have to do something. Health is not a one-size-fits-all for everybody. And for me, it involved a lot of study in the offseason. … I put a lot of time and energy researching this and met with a lot of people to get the most information about the vaccines before I made my decision.”


Just shut the f*ck up you dumb f*cking idiot.
 
Poor Aaron:

Decrying the “woke mob,” “cancel culture” and what he described as a “witch hunt” against him, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers vigorously defended his decision not to be vaccinated against the coronavirus during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Friday, lashing out at the NFL’s coronavirus protocols and saying they “were not based on science but on a more shame-based environment.”

Rodgers was revealed to have tested positive for the coronavirus Wednesday, and he will miss Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs. He cannot rejoin the Packers until the day before their Week 10 game against the Seattle Seahawks. Rodgers said that he experienced symptoms of covid-19 and “didn’t feel great” earlier this week but was feeling better Friday.
In August, Rodgers was told he was considered unvaccinated under protocols developed by the league and the NFL Players Association after he raised an issue regarding his vaccination classification.
Sally Jenkins: Aaron Rodgers is entitled to stay unvaccinated. He’s not entitled to lie about it.
Rodgers responded to a reporter’s question in August about his vaccination status by saying he was “immunized.” At the start of a nearly 20-minute opening statement Friday during an appearance that lasted nearly an hour, Rodgers said he didn’t lie about his status.






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“It wasn’t some sort of ruse or a lie,” he said, appearing to read from prepared remarks. “Had there been a follow-up to my statement that I’ve been immunized, I would have … said: ‘Look, I’m not some sort of anti-vax flat-Earther. I’m somebody who’s a critical thinker.’ You guys know me. I march to the beat of my own drum.
“I believe strongly in bodily autonomy and the ability to make choices for your body, not to have to acquiesce to some woke culture or crazed group of individuals who say you have to do something. Health is not a one-size-fits-all for everybody. And for me, it involved a lot of study in the offseason. … I put a lot of time and energy researching this and met with a lot of people to get the most information about the vaccines before I made my decision.”


Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers tested positive for the coronavirus and will miss the NFL game against the Kansas City Chiefs on Nov. 7. (Reuters)
Rodgers said he could not get the Moderna or Pfizer shots because he has an allergy to an ingredient in the mRNA vaccines made by those companies. Rodgers did not identify the specific allergy.



His only option, he said, was the vaccine created by Johnson & Johnson, but he “had heard of multiple people who had had adverse events around getting the J&J … physical abnormalities around getting the J&J shot. And then, in mid-April, the J&J shot got pulled for clotting issues. So the J&J shot was not even an option at that point.”

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine went back on the market within days because regulators determined its benefits outweigh its risks.
After “talking to a lot of medical individuals and professionals,” Rodgers said, he “found an immunization protocol that he could go through to best protect myself” that didn’t involve getting one of the three available vaccines. He said later that he also had consulted with podcaster Joe Rogan, his “now good friend” who said he treated his own covid bout with ivermectin, an anti-parasitic that the Food and Drug Administration has said is not an effective treatment for the disease. Rodgers said he also had taken ivermectin, which can only be obtained with a prescription.



“I’m thankful for people like Joe stepping up and using his voice,” Rodgers said.
Congressional leaders unsatisfied by NFL’s initial response to WFT document request
Rodgers said he petitioned the Packers and the NFL during the preseason to accept this alternate protocol — he “gathered over 500 pages of research on the efficacy of immunizations,” he said — but said he realized he would not win his argument when one of the NFL’s doctors told him “it was impossible for a vaccinated person to get covid or spread covid … which we know now that that information is totally false.” Rodgers later decried that the league did not offer any opportunity to consider “alternative medicines.”
According to a person familiar with the league’s handling of the matter, no doctor for the NFL or any of the infectious-disease consultants utilized by the league and the NFL Players Association communicated with Rodgers during the process. In August, according to that person, a member of the Packers’ medical staff inquired to the NFLPA on Rodgers’s behalf whether an alternative homeopathic treatment could lead to a player being regarded as the equivalent of vaccinated under the protocols.



The NFLPA shared the Packers’ request, along with materials provided by Rodgers, to Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer, and the infectious-disease consultants. A review concluded there was insufficient scientific data to support the petition, that person said, and the NFLPA indicated that it would inform Rodgers of the decision.
Unvaccinated NFL players face stricter restrictions compared with vaccinated players and are tested for the coronavirus daily, and Rodgers said Friday that he had been following those rules and that the Packers knew he was not vaccinated. He said his decision not to take one of the accepted vaccinations “was what’s best for my body. … My medical team advised me that the danger of me having an adverse event was greater than the risk of getting covid and recovering. So I made a decision in the best interest of my body.”
Rodgers added that he was worried about the vaccines’ effect on his chances to father children, though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises that there is no evidence that coronavirus vaccines cause fertility problems.



Regarding the NFL’s coronavirus policies, Rodgers said, “they were not based on science at all, they’re based purely on trying to out and shame people” and making unvaccinated people “feel like the most dangerous people in society.” He questioned why the league forces people to wear masks around vaccinated people and why unvaccinated people need to be tested every day when vaccinated people can spread the virus as well.
“The great MLK said, ‘You have a moral obligation to object to unjust rules and rules that make no sense,’ ” Rodgers said, paraphrasing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Rogers lashed out at reporters who he said “were trying to shame and out and cancel all us unvaccinated people, call us selfish: ‘You’re selfish for making a decision that’s in the best interest of your body.’ … I go back to two questions for this woke mob: Number one, if the vaccine is so great, then how come so many people are getting covid and spreading covid and unfortunately dying of covid? … For the media out there taking shots at me: Like, you don’t know my story. Now you do. So quit lying about it.”



The NFL said Thursday that it, along with the NFLPA, would review the case to determine whether any protocol violations occurred. The NFL would consider fines for the Packers and Rodgers if protocol violations are established, but Rodgers would not face the possibility of suspension, a person with knowledge of the matter said Thursday night. Rodgers must remain in isolation for 10 days and can rejoin the Packers at that point if he is symptom-free.

He has issues
 
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Everybody is all the time the victim of all the things. America. Land of the victim.

And you also complain about a media (and social media culture) that needlessly foments stupid controversy and elevates something like Rogers' lack of a vaccine to a story that dominates the news cycle for days or weeks if possible. Because we're not awash in enough moralization and squabbling over vaccines.

It's obvious want Rogers didn't want to deal with that circus.

How terrible. It's obvious that he was bitching about that. So he used language to throw them off the trail, which, technically, wasn't incorrect.

Should bad about deceiving the public & media this way? No.
 
And you also complain about a media (and social media culture) that needlessly foments stupid controversy and elevates something like Rogers' lack of a vaccine to a story that dominates the news cycle for days or weeks if possible. Because we're not awash in enough moralization and squabbling over vaccines.

It's obvious want Rogers didn't want to deal with that circus.

How terrible. It's obvious that he was bitching about that.
Dude likes his attention. don’t be silly.
 
And you also complain about a media (and social media culture) that needlessly foments stupid controversy and elevates something like Rogers' lack of a vaccine to a story that dominates the news cycle for days or weeks if possible. Because we're not awash in enough moralization and squabbling over vaccines.

It's obvious want Rogers didn't want to deal with that circus.

How terrible. It's obvious that he was bitching about that. So he used language to throw them off the trail, which, technically, wasn't incorrect.

Should bad about deceiving the public & media this way? No.

If Rodgers didn't want to deal with "a media circus", he shouldn't have lied about talking to NFL docs regarding the vaccine.
 
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