Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has lost a significant business partnership with the health care organization Prevea Health after he went public with his generally anti-vax views. Rodgers recently tested positive for COVID-19, and the news emerged around the same time that he was un-vaccinated, despite telling reporters earlier this year that he was, in fact, “immunized.” During an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show,” Rodgers laid out the full breadth of his troubling — and simply out-of-touch — beliefs regarding COVID-19 and vaccines against it. He said that he is simply “a critical thinker” who believes “strongly in bodily autonomy” — and he also questioned whether the vaccines are really effective (despite the evidence) and compared his own struggles to those of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Among other things, Rodgers self-confidently said: “I realize I’m in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now. So, before my final nail gets put in my cancel culture casket, I’d like to set the record straight on so many of the blatant lies out there” — and honestly, that phrasing alone is enough to say a lot about where he’s coming from. It’s floundering conspiracy theorists and those with something to hide who generally talk like that. Rodgers had been a spokesperson for Prevea Health, which is headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, since all the way back in 2012, and a statement on the matter directly tied the end of his partnership with the company to his views on COVID-19.
As the organization put it:
‘Prevea Health remains deeply committed to protecting its patients, staff, providers and communities amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes encouraging and helping all eligible populations to become vaccinated against COVID-19 to prevent the virus from further significantly impacting lives and livelihoods.’
Besides his questioning of the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines despite their documented safety and efficacy, Rodgers also promoted unproven and potentially unsafe treatments for COVID-19, which no doubt only further imperiled his standing with Prevea Health. On “The Pat McAfee Show,” Rodgers said that he’d been taking “monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, zinc, vitamin C, and DHCQ” — ivermectin, of course, being the anti-parasitic drug that those who think they know better than the entirety of established medical science in the United States have taken up as a supposedly prime treatment for COVID-19.
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