Aaron Rodgers once again has gone on an anti-vax rant on his Instagram account. During the pandemic, Rodgers was one of the loudest voices against the Covid vaccine, refusing to take it.
Rodgers has even thrown his political support behind another anti-vaxxer, Robert Kennedy Jr., who plans to run in the Democratic primaries against President Joe Biden in 2024.
Rodgers was particularly hard on one doctor who supported the vaccine, Dr. Peter Hotez. Rodgers slammed Hotez, posting on his Instagram account that he “Doesn’t take health advice from unhealthy people.” He added that RFK Jr. would “mop the floor” with this guy.
Joe Rogan has offered the doctor $100,00 to his favorite charity to come on his show and debate RFK Jr., but so far, the doctor refuses.
Rodgers also called Hotez a “stooge” and recalls an incident when he showed up to Packers training camp last year to talk about the vaccine.
“Day three of training camp they sent this stooge in and he showed these slides of what your vaccination percentage was as a team,” Rodgers said last summer. “What are you compared to the rest of the league? And I started asking him questions about liability. ‘Oh, I’m not a lawyer.’”
“OK, cool, but you’re in here talking about these different things and you don’t talk about anybody’s personal health issues,” he said. “There’s zero exemptions, you took out religious exemptions, you took out PEG exemptions, you took out anybody’s ability to have an opinion of I don’t want to do this.
Dr. Hoetz was disappointed that Rodgers took another shot at him.
Disappointed he took a cheap shot vs me this wk. In 2021 during our awful delta wave we were losing 2,000 Americans/day, >80% among unvaccinated, when vaccines were 90% protective vs death/serious illness, I criticized him for his public antivaccine stance https://t.co/ov1EMPvPU2
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) June 21, 2023
Rodgers has been accused several times in the past of passing along misinformation about the vaccine and was criticized harshly by many NFL fans for his stance.
