Years after stirring controversy with his “immunized” admission, NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers revealed the “one thing I wish could have gone different.”
Amid a whiplash turnaround fueled by propaganda, leftists everywhere had gone from slamming the pharmaceutical fruits of Operation Warp Speed to readily being coaxed to line up for shots with cookies and french fries after an administration change. As people from all walks of life lost their livelihoods by taking a stand for medical freedom against draconian mandates of the COVID mRNA shot, the footballer’s own approach to avoiding a “Fauci Ouchie” was a matter of some regret.
“If there’s one thing I wish could have gone different, it’s that, because that’s the only thing [critics] could hit me with,” Rodgers told Ian O’Connor for an upcoming unauthorized biography, according to ESPN.
During an interview for “Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers,” the Green Bay Packers star turned New York Jets quarterback asserted that he had used specific phrasing because it represented “the crux of my appeal.”
“But if I could do it again, I would have said (in August), ‘F— the appeal. I’m just going to tell them I’m allergic to PEG (polyethylene glycol), I’m not getting Johnson & Johnson, I’m not going to be vaxxed,'” Rodgers was quoted as saying.
In Aug. 2021, the quarterback said, “Yeah, I’ve been immunized,” only to explain a few months later on “The Pat McAfee Show,” “I realize I’m in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now. So before my final nail gets put in my cancel culture casket, I think I would like to set the record straight on so many of the blatant lies that are out there about myself.”
“It wasn’t some sort of ruse or lie. It was the truth…I have an allergy to an ingredient that’s in the mRNA vaccines…And so I looked into and talked, again, to a lot of medical individuals and professionals and found that there was an immunization protocol that I could go to, to best protect myself and my teammates,” he explained.
When Rodgers went on to contend that a doctor associated with the NFL had made an all too common claim at the time and said “It’s impossible for a vaccinated person to get COVID or spread COVID,” a spokesperson countered, “No doctor from the league or the joint NFL-NFLPA infectious disease consultants communicated with the player. If they had, they certainly would have never said anything like that.”
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The player explained to O’Connor, “I had an immunization card from my holistic doctor, which looked similar. I wasn’t trying to pawn it off as a vaccine card, but I said, ‘Listen, here’s my protocol. Here’s what you can follow to look this up.’ And it was an ongoing appeal. So, if I had just said [I was unvaccinated] in the moment, there’s no chance that the appeal would have been handled the exact same way.”
He also made clear that a mandate like the one that took Brooklyn Nets player Kyrie Irving off the court in the NBA would not have changed his mind. “I wouldn’t have done it.”
Along with his position on the COVID shots, the book was said to cover Rodgers’ estrangement from his family and his reaction to key moments in his career through “hundreds of original interviews” to deliver “the definitive portrait of the legendary yet mysterious quarterback who has astonished, befuddled, yet always captivated fans of America’s #1 sport.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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