So, getting past all of this, including his rant against the “woke mob” and “cancel culture,” let's get down to the bottom.
How many people did Covid-carrying Rodgers infect after he refused to get vaccinated and ignored mask protocols? Even if only one, it is too much. Even if none, Rodgers did not have the right to put other people's health and lives at risk.
This made me chuckle: “Some of the rules are not based in science at all,” Rodgers said. “They’re based purely in trying to out and shame people.”
So, this is his scientific rationale:
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Rodgers in August told reporters during training camp that he had been “immunized” against the virus, a term that the journalists did not ask him to define further. On Friday, Rodgers said he did not want to take the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines because he had an allergy to an ingredient in them. He was also hesitant about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, he said, because the Food and Drug Administration recommended a temporary pause in administering the company’s shot in the spring because of rare instances of blood clots. Rodgers also said he was wary of the vaccines’ potential effects on fertility, a theory that most medical experts have said is unfounded.
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He knows that he is allergic to an "ingredient" in the vaccines. Exactly how does he know this?
When it was a hot topic back in May, it was reported that "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it had identified a
total of 28 cases of serious, potentially life-threatening blood clots among the more than
8.7 million people who had received the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccination." A direct causal relationship has yet to be found.
As to "the vaccines’ potential effects on fertility," that's a new one on me. Sounds like something Rodgers found on Facebook.
“I’m not some sort of anti-vax, flat-earther,” Rodgers said. Heh. Okay.
Going back to the original question of this thread, after seeing Rodgers like this in the past few weeks, including the nationally televised F-word outburst during a game, I am very glad that the
Jeopardy! producers did not go with this clown as the successor to the great Alex Trebek. What a travesty that would have been.