While appearing on The Joe Rogan Show, Aaron Rodgers admitted that he deliberately withheld his vaccine status by calling himself “immune.”
Aaron Rodgers tries to spin the vaccination interpretations as if he were spinning balls on the court. He is not as good in the former task as he is in the latter.
The midfielder appeared in the Packers Joe Rogan Experience And he tried to justify his handling of the question of vaccination against the Corona virus.
It started with the claim that he was allergic to polyethylene glycol, or PEG, which is an ingredient in the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
He then moved on to Rodgers’ admission that he actually lied to the media by calling himself “immune”.
Aaron Rodgers admits to intentionally misleading the media regarding immunization
“They were doing it, I described it as a witch hunt, where they would ask every player ‘Have you been vaccinated? You know, they were asking a bunch of big guys and some guys were saying, ‘That’s personal’ or whatever. They didn’t want to talk about their condition and it was almost guaranteed you didn’t get vaccinated, right? And then you rip them apart after that,” Rodgers said. And some guys said, ‘Yeah, I got vaccinated’ and then they tried to get them to read on their unvaccinated teammates — call their teammates.
“So I was prepared the whole time for this question and thought about how to respond to it. I came to the conclusion that I would say, ‘I’ve been immunized’ and if there’s a follow-up, talk about my work. But I thought there was a possibility, I’d say I’m immune, maybe they understand what that means. Maybe they don’t, maybe they follow. They didn’t follow through.”
But wait there is more.
“But I knew at some point that if I had contracted COVID or if word got out, because it’s the NFL and there are leaks all over the place, I could have answered the questions. And then, for sure, I contracted COVID at the beginning of November/ The end of October, and that’s when the dirty storm hit because I’m now a liar and put the community and my teammates at risk, all those people. It started trying to get me off, you know, my word and my integrity started.”
So, basically, Rodgers knew he’d have to answer questions about his vaccination status and wasn’t willing to hold on to his status, so he lied despite knowing the truth would eventually come out and he’d have to face the music anyway. But he wants to blame the media for questioning his integrity.
All of this begs the question, why didn’t Rodgers explain his situation from the start?
He deliberately misled people about vaccination rather than calmly explaining, as he did with Rogan, that he had not been vaccinated because of an allergy. He could have used his platform to promote the alternative immunization process in which he felt very confident. He could have drawn attention to the difficulties faced by those who are allergic to the components of the vaccine.
Instead, obscure and silent.
It wasn’t hard to simply say, “I’m allergic to polyethylene glycol, which is in mRNA vaccines, and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been withdrawn. So I don’t get the vaccine.”
He didn’t, which is why the heat was so intense on him.
Now, Rodgers’ explanations sound as hollow as those of baseball players who claim they wound up with a banned substance in their drug test because of a fungal cream. This is his fault. No media.
Say what you will about Kirk Cousins and others, but at least they had the courage to stand behind their own vaccination decisions.
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