“I said I was IMMUNIZED, not VACCINATED”: Aaron Rodgers says he never lied about getting vaccinated
Aaron Rodgers, what a character. Love him, hate him, but one just can’t ignore him. On one side we have people who label as downright stupid for giving expert analysis on stuff he has zero knowledge about, while on the other hand, a lot of people consider him as someone who is fearless and opinionated.
Among a plethora of controversies he has been involved in, one of the biggest of them all is the infamous ‘vaccine lie.’ Rodgers was brutally reprimanded by NFL experts, talk show hosts, and the general public when it became apparent that he wasn’t jabbed.
“It was a pseudo witch hunt going on, who was vaccinated, who wasn’t”: Aaron Rodgers
There were reports that Aaron Rodgers misled the whole world into believing that he was vaccinated when he clearly wasn’t. For his recklessness, Rodgers was fined $14,650 by the NFL. However, Rodgers has claimed that he never actually admitted that he was vaccinated, instead, he had told everyone that he was immunized.
“It was a pseudo witch hunt going on, who was vaccinated, who wasn’t vaccinated. I was in a multimonth conversation that turned into an appeal process with the NFL at that time, and my appeal hinged on that exact statement (immunized),” Rodgers said in an interview with ESPN.
“So what I said was, No. 1, factually true. I went through a multi-immunization process. And at the end of that, I don’t know what you would call it, I would call it immunized,” he further added. So according to Rodgers, the whole fiasco was nothing more than a blatant misunderstanding.
Even after Rodgers returned, he stayed in the news for giving his analysis on Covid treatment methods. Rodgers is a pivotal part of the Green Bay Packers and he has churned out fantastic numbers. However, his actions off the field have done more harm to his reputation than good.
Shubham Bhargava
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