1/ What makes me so mad about the Aaron Rodgers stuff - and there are buckets and buckets of things to be mad about - are the things he didn't say. I heard zero mention of the 750,000 American souls who have died from this virus, a number bolstered by people like himself who...
2/ ...who have the gall, thanks to never being told they're wrong, to think they know better than an overwhelming majority of scientists and medical professionals. Not a damn word about anyone who lost a child, or a parent, or a brother or sister.
3/ I didn't hear anything from him about the precautions he took to make sure people around him on the Packers or in the community were protected from him, given his unvaccinated status. He's free to make his own health decisions, but did he stop for a moment to consider others?
4/ I didn't hear a word about the damage this pandemic has done to millions upon millions of families the world over. About people who have lost jobs as it has dragged on unnecessarily long, or about kids who have suffered from isolation. Not a peep.
5/ Nothing about the millions who got COVID and survived and are now dealing with long-term health issues. Nothing. All I heard was Aaron Rodgers talk about Aaron Rodgers. His rugged individualism. His wholly unfounded fear about fertility.
6/ His unwillingness to let society - a society that has elevated him to a lofty perch - tell Aaron Rodgers what to do. HE is the aggrieved party here. HE is the one being put upon. HE is the lone precious boy in the room who whines of cancellation as he blabbers his gibberish...
7/ ...to a massive satellite radio audience while having a platform bigger than most could ever imagine. OH GOD, AARON RODGERS, I HOPE WE, AS A SOCIETY, HAVE NOT MADE YOU THE LEAST BIT UNCOMFORTABLE!
8/ I HOPE THE DEATHS OF SO MANY WHO COULDN'T MUSTER YOUR AWESOME, ALEBIT INEFFECTIVE, IMMUNITY HAVE NOT FORCED YOU TO SPEND A MOMENT THINKING OF SOMEONE OTHER THAN YOURSELF!
Clearly that hasn't happened. This is Aaron Rodgers world. We're just here to watch.
Clearly that hasn't happened. This is Aaron Rodgers world. We're just here to watch.
9/ Like most Americans, I and my family have done our best to do all the right things throughout the pandemic. We follow mask guidelines, we're vaccinated, we have avoid situations that might be risky to us OR to other people. That's not a brag. That's just doing one's part.
10/ So it pisses me off to hear a self-righteous ass with a massive profile and ample ability to make the world better decide that his way - the Aaron Rodgers way! - is what's right, science be damned. He'll listen to mental slugs like Joe Rogan and the rest of us can get bent!
11/ F*ck you, Aaron Rodgers. On behalf of exhausted Americans, f*ck you. Nobody will force you to get vaccinated. But if your choice is to not, you should've owned up to it from the jump. You should've put other people's lives ahead of your own, both then and now. But you didn't.
12/ Because you give a damn about one thing: Aaron Rodgers.
And now a lot of people don't give a damn about you.
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And now a lot of people don't give a damn about you.
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