OK Allergic QB Rodgers Passed On Cheesy Vaccines?

Any reports of Covid-positive Aaron Rodgers’ professional death are premature as were earlier reports of his having been “vaccinated” rather than “self-immunized”. In a clarifying ESPN article & tv appearance the Packers’ QB explained he was “allergic” to two of the available vaccines & was advised by docs that the risks from side affects associated with the 3rd vaccine were “outweighed” by his likely survival should he contract the disease. Say cheese, please, and give the future HOFer a pass on this Covid play call? Even if he’s been cancelled out of one lucrative sponsorship gig?

Well, Rodgers may also have been scratched from Sunday’s game with the Chiefs but he & his docs were apparently right in “self-immunizing” as it were, i.e., he’s pretty much asymptomatic aka he’ll live to torment the Chicago Bears again. One other positive is that, thanks to a common Covid side effect, Rodgers may be unable to smell teammates’ cheesy sweat in future huddles. Rodgers’ articulation of his decision:

“First of all, I didn’t lie in the initial press conference [in which he used the word “immunized” rather than “vaccinated” to describe his own status when asked by reporters his stance on the league’s vaccine mandate]. During that time, it was a witch hunt that was going on across the league, where everybody in the media was so concerned about who was vaccinated & who wasn’t & what that meant & who was being selfish & who would talk about it, what it meant if they said it’s a personal decision & they shouldn’t have to disclose their own medical information … Look, I’m not some sort of anti-vax, flat-Earther. I am somebody who’s a critical thinker.” Actually, Rodgers sounded like a critical thinking President Trump, who many of us can thank for the vaccines, & he may yet thank the federal appellate court in Texas that just issued an emergency injunction suggesting folks may have a constitutional right to “say no thanks” to No. 46’s mandate.

Davd Soul