The Green Bay Packers quarterback blasted the NFL for “punishing unvaccinated players” when those who have received the jab are falling to the virus just as quickly.
In a Tuesday appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show,” Aaron Rodgers questioned the league’s coronavirus policies.
“What I don’t understand, it makes no sense to me to continue to spread this narrative that non-vaccinated players are more dangerous or superspreaders,” he remarked. “Which obviously has been proven to not be true.”
Rodgers tested positive for COVID-19 on Nov. 3, after attending a team Halloween party, which was against the league’s rules for unvaccinated players. He was fined $14,650 and missed a Nov. 7 game versus the Kansas City Chiefs, which the Packers lost, while the team was fined $300,000 for the violation.
“I don’t understand why there is still this two-class system that exists in our league,” Rodgers continued. “There’s not many unvaccinated guys left in the league, but it’s obviously not a pandemic of the unvaxxed.”
"Vaccinated people & unvaccinated people are testing positive for Covid.. the facts of whatever science we're using here & it's changing all the time doesn't really back up having a 2 class system" ~@AaronRodgers12#PatMcAfeeShowLIVE pic.twitter.com/BOHo6zzt07
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) December 28, 2021
“Vaccinated people are testing positive, non-vaccinated people are testing positive,” he added. “It doesn’t make sense to me, because we’re still punishing non-vaccinated people when the majority of teams are mostly vaccinated.”
Rodgers, who was embroiled in scandal after calling himself inoculated, despite not getting the shot, said that the league is quietly discussing the alternative treatments he championed.
“How come in a league where we’re seeing 51 guys on the list yesterday, there’s still zero conversation, at least publicly, around treatment options for people that test positive,” he questioned.
“I do know, behind the scenes… There are many teams who are using, or recommending, a lot of the same treatments that I got for their players. There are treatments being talked about behind closed doors, but publicly, I don’t understand why we can’t talk about treatments.”
He went on to bash the NFL for refusing to consider alternative treatments to speed up the healing process. “If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science any more — it’s propaganda.”
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