Jets' QB, Aaron Rodgers, wants to challenge "Mr. Pfizer," T. Kelce, to debate--along w. Fauci and RFK (as participants)

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Aaron Rodgers wants to team with RFK Jr. to debate the COVID vaccine against 'Mr Pfizer' Travis Kelce and Dr. Fauci​

Christopher Kuhagen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Updated Wed, October 11, 2023 at 10:17 AM CDT·5 min read
Link: https://www.yahoo.com/sports/rodgers-continues-poke-pfizer-kelce-190856333.html

Aaron Rodgers didn't get to face Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs on the field earlier this month after the quarterback tore his Achilles in the New York Jets' Week 1 game.
But the former Green Bay Packers four-time MVP wants to now face him off the field in a vaccine debate.
It all started when Rodgers on "The Pat McAfee Show" Oct. 3 called the Chiefs superstar tight end "Mr. Pfizer" for appearing in a Pfizer commercial advocating for people to get their flu and COVID-19 shots together this fall. Pfizer is one of the makers of the COVID vaccines.
Later in the week, Kelce responded saying he never thought he'd "get into the vax wars with Aaron Rodgers. Mr. Pfizer versus the Johnson & Johnson family over there.”
Rodgers, who drew a firestorm in 2021 for his outspoken views around vaccines and the COVID-19 pandemic, now has thrown down a challenge to Kelce.
"Listen, Mr. Pfizer said he didn’t think he’d be in a vax war with me," Rodgers said Tuesday on "The Pat McAfee Show."
"This ain’t a war, homie, this is just conversation. But if you want to have some sort of duel, debate have me on the podcast, come on the show, let’s have a conversation."

Kelce hosts a popular podcast "New Heights" with his brother, Jason, also an NFL player. Rodgers is a regular guest every Tuesday on McAfee's YouTube show, which simulcasts on ESPN. He also frequents other podcasts like "The Joe Rogan Experience" and "The Aubrey Marcus Podcast," where his off-the-field activities are the main topics of discussion.

Aaron Rodgers wants RFK Jr. to join him in a COVID debate against Travis Kelce and Dr. Anthony Fauci​

Rodgers, who has been at the center of the vaccine debate since the 2021 NFL season and hasn't let up in the years since, wants a partner to take on Kelce.
He would choose Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., also known as RFK Jr., who is running as an independent for president and someone the quarterback often references on social media. Kennedy, nephew to the late President John F. Kennedy, has been denounced from many in his family over controversial statements and conspiracy theories he has expressed around vaccines and the pandemic.
Rodgers called RFK "my man."
Rodgers said Kelce's partner can be Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, and was the chief medical adviser to the president from 2021-22.

McAfee steered Rodgers on this path after bringing up that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Instagram account posted a football jersey with Kelce's number on it with the name "Mr. Pfizer" on the back and that he should get some royalties. The Instagram caption reads "We just might put this through R&D," referencing research and development.
"Just wow, it’s fascinating," Rodgers said. Then he added "the triggering, was that not incredible last week people getting absolutely triggered" by his "Mr. Pfizer" comment.

Aaron Rodgers plays for the Jets, who are owned by Woody Johnson, of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical company that made a COVID vaccine​

Rodgers is in his first season playing for the New York Jets, a team that is owned by Woody Johnson, a member of the founding family of Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceutical company and makers of one of the COVID-19 vaccines.
"Listen, the Johnsons have been great to me," said Rodgers, who supports others who haven't gotten vaccinated against COVID-19. "I don’t mind if you call me Mr. Johnson and Johnson.
"I don’t play for the Johnson and Johnson cooperation. I play for the New York Jets. I made a tiny little joke for a guy shilling for a potentially corrupt company, and everybody kind of loses their minds a little bit."
OPINION: Anti-vaxxer Aaron Rodgers makes a fool of himself mocking Travis Kelce as 'Mr. Pfizer'

Aaron Rodgers has been one of loudest critics of NFL around COVID-19 pandemic​

Rodgers has used the "debate" line before when discussing the pandemic. After the Packers' 2021 season ended with a home playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers, Rodgers said on "The Pat McAfee Show" that "love and connection and debate" will get the country out of the pandemic. He also said name calling doesn't help anyone's cause and didn't want to be associated with any political party.
Rodgers, who initially said he didn't get vaccinated because he was allergic to the ingredients in the mRNA vaccines, was one of the loudest critics of the NFL's health and safety protocols during the 2021 season after he tested positive for COVID and violated league policy for breaking rules approved by the NFL Players Association. Rodgers unsuccessfully tried to get around the protocols for non-vaccinated players that season when he filed a 500-page report stating why his homeopathic treatments should have constituted as him being vaccinated. He told the media before that season he was "immunized" when asked about his vaccination status.
Rodgers has also advocated for the drug ivermectin, something he said he took after discussing the virus with podcaster Joe Rogan. Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have warned against using the anti-parasitic drug as a treatment for COVID-19.
"Well there is a lot of propaganda out there," Rodgers claimed about Pfizer. "Lot of prop out there."
With the conversation going in a direction probably not planned when the over 45-minute interview started, Rodgers probably correctly said "I think ESPN better cut this off."
The network didn't but it's clear the vaccine topic isn't ending any time soon for Rodgers.

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Pfizer issued a press release Friday stating that mRNA covid vaccines “show increased risks” of myocarditis + pericarditis​

October 17, 2023 10:30 am by CWR

Link: https://citizenwatchreport.com/pfiz...-increased-risks-of-myocarditis-pericarditis/

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Press release link
www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-amends-us-government-paxlovid-supply-agreement-and

 

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How Pfizer Hid Nearly 80% of COVID Vaccine Trial Deaths From Regulators​

Link: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-hid-data-covid-vaccine-trial-deaths/

According to an analysis, published this month in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research, of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial data, the vaccine makers hid fatality data from regulators in order to qualify for Emergency Use Authorization.

By Angelo DePalma, Ph.D.

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Pfizer-BioNTech delayed reporting vaccine-associated deaths among BNT162b2 clinical trial participants until after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the product.
The vaccine makers also failed to account for a large number of subjects who dropped out of the trial.
Together, these strategies kept regulators and the public ignorant of a 3.7-fold increase in cardiac deaths among subjects who received the vaccine, according to analysis in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research.
The authors of the paper described it as a “forensic analysis,” defined by the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology as “the use of scientific methods or expertise to investigate crimes or examine evidence that might be presented in a court of law.”
What the analysis shows
Corinne Michels, Ph.D., retired distinguished professor of biology at Queens College, New York, led the DailyClout Pfizer/BioNTech Documents Investigations Team on what the authors claim was the first independent examination of original data from the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine (BNT162b2) clinical trial.
Investigators looked at each of the 38 deaths occurring between July 27, 2020, the start of phase 2/3 of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine trial, and March 13, 2020, the end date culminating in Pfizer-BioNTech’s 6-month interim report.
This trial phase involved 44,060 subjects. Half received a dose of BNT162b2, half got a placebo consisting of an inactive sterile salt solution.
The trial was unusual because at week 20 after the FDA issued the EUA for the vaccine, trial subjects in the placebo group were allowed to switch to the vaccinated group and receive their first BNT162b2 shot.


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Switching from the placebo to the vaccinated group — or “unblinding” — normally occurs when the benefit of the drug is so great that not treating subjects becomes unethical. For example, investigators might consider unblinding a cancer trial if at some point all untreated patients deteriorated or died but all treated patients improved.

Unblinding conditions may be specified in the study design, but they usually involve input or review from medical ethicists.

Of 20,794 unblinded placebo subjects in the Pfizer trial, 19,685 received at least one dose of BNT162b2.

Normally the decision to unblind a vaccine trial would be based on the product’s safety and effectiveness in reaching certain endpoints or objectives. Endpoints for a drug to prevent viral infections might be a positive test or self-reported COVID-19 illness (the “case” numbers that drove much of COVID-19 policy), illness requiring hospitalization or death.

But, perhaps unexpectedly, after 33 weeks the data revealed no significant difference between deaths in the vaccinated and placebo groups for the initial 20-week placebo-controlled portion of the trial.

After week 20, after most former placebo subjects had received the vaccine, deaths among those in the vaccine group continued unabated.

The authors revealed “inconsistencies” between data presented in Pfizer-BioNTech’s 6-month interim report and subsequent publications by Pfizer-BioNTech trial site administrators:

“Most importantly, we found evidence of an over 3.7-fold increase in the number of deaths due to cardiac events in the BNT162b2 vaccinated individuals compared to those who received only the placebo.”

This means that 79% of relevant deaths were not recorded in time to be included in Pfizer’s regulatory paperwork.

By not including relevant subject deaths in the case report, Pfizer obscured cardiac adverse event signals, allowing the EUA to proceed unchallenged.

How did Pfizer get around legal, ethical obligations?

The Pfizer-BioNTech data, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, uncovered four additional deaths in the vaccine group and one more in the placebo group — but Pfizer failed to include these data in their FDA submission despite an explicit study design requirement to do so.

These data, and how they differ from what Pfizer-BioNTech reported in their applications, are summarized in Table 3 of Michels’ study.

One case involved a 63-year-old woman who died 41 days after receiving the shot, but whose death only entered the data pool 37 days later. Another was a 58-year-old woman whose death 72 days after vaccination went unreported for 26 days.

Had Pfizer-BioNTech met their legal and ethical obligation to report all serious adverse events their data would have shown equal deaths in placebo and vaccine groups — which would have shown no clear benefit for the vaccine.

How were they able to skirt those obligations?

For one, they were able to hide behind the the 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act, which provided an almost impenetrable liability shield for vaccine manufacturers for “medical countermeasures” in response to any “public health emergency.”

Second, because COVID-19 was viewed as a national health emergency, regulators abandoned the established, patient-centered, safety-based approval process requiring years of preclinical animal testing — and Pfizer-BioNTech unsurprisingly went along.



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Timing of death reports raises questions

Michels also raised issues regarding total death reports and their timing.

Since the death total from both study groups, 38, appeared “surprisingly low” to study authors — particularly during a pandemic — they undertook their own analysis based on population mortality expectations at the time.

Assuming that age-adjusted death rates for the study subjects were similar to those of the general population, they estimated that 222 subjects should have died from July 27, 2020, to March 13, 2021. The reported number, 38, is just 18% of the expected number.

Michels explained this by the large number, 4.2% of “discontinued subjects.” The most concerning of these were subjects “lost to follow-up,” which means missing scheduled visits or other required activities.

Pfizer-BioNTech tried to reach these subjects via phone, certified mail or through their emergency contact but despite their efforts could not account for 395 subjects who had dropped out.

The authors wrote:

“These are not insignificant numbers and could easily account for the low number of deaths reported in this safety period of the trial. Given the importance of knowing the status of each trial subject, there should have been greater effort to locate these individuals.

“Additionally, Pfizer/BioNTech was responsible for oversight of the trial sites. Sites with excessive numbers of lost to follow-up should have been evaluated for performance.”

Michels was also concerned over how certain trial centers had many dropped-out subjects while others had none or just a few.

Ninety-six of 153 trial sites (63%) reported 0 or 1 subjects lost to follow-up and 34 (22%) reported 2-5 dropouts. But four sites reported more than 20 subjects lost to follow-up, amounting to about 5% of all trial subjects.

Since the vaccine makers were responsible for trial site oversight, the authors wrote, “Sites with excessive numbers of lost to follow-up should have been evaluated for performance.”

Finally, based on the data, it appears Pfizer-BioNTech was in no hurry to enter death reports before the EUA submission deadline, particularly for the BNT162b2 group.

Of the 38 reported deaths only one case was added on the day the subject died. Delays of 20+ and 30+ days were common.

One death took 72 days to find its way into the database, and all were entered as occurring on the reporting day, not on the actual date of death.

Of the eight subjects in the vaccine group that should have been reported by Dec. 10, 2020, the EUA application cutoff, the average reporting delay was 17.5 days for subjects in the vaccine group, but just 5.9 days for deaths among subjects in the placebo group.

 

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The Federal Government Paid Media Outlets to Promote the Covid Vaccine​

by Rav Arora | Brownstone.org
December 5th 2023, 4:00 am

Link: https://www.infowars.com/posts/the-...d-media-outlets-to-promote-the-covid-vaccine/

For over two years, the media and government officials have been peddling dangerous misinformation — the very sin they accuse of the conspiracy web of committing — about COVID-19 posing a higher risk to young people than the vaccine.

After releasing my three-part series earlier this year showing how multiple media outlets refused to platform dissent on the Covid vaccine, I was asked on multiple podcasts why this was the case. Ideological groupthink, fear of exacerbating institutional distrust, and financial motives were on my list of potential explanations, but I did not have concrete evidence.

As I highlighted in my first piece, the responses I got from editors claiming their publication’s “pro-vaccine” allegiance was quite jarring. More than anything else, a publication should be “pro-truth” — whether that means highlighting the astounding benefits of a therapeutic or exposing its serious side effects. The idea that a whole media corporation would take a firm stance on a novel, experimental product is antithetical to the core purpose of journalism.

As I’ve said many times before, we are a pro-vaccination newspaper, and personally I just wish everyone would get vaccinated already.
Editor response to Rav Arora’s story proposals on vaccine risks

As it turns out, mainstream media’s nearly monolithic coverage of mRNA vaccines and other Covid measures can be at least partially explained by a clear financial interest. Recently, independent journalist Breanna Morello — who left Fox News because of draconian vaccine mandates in New York City — alerted me to a FOIA request filed by the conservative media company TheBlaze, which found a number of major media outlets were paid to promote the Covid vaccine.

Such venues included the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NBC, CNN, Fox News, and several others. TheBlaze’s report received little coverage — even in conservative media (perhaps because some of those outlets were also paid by HHS) ideologically predisposed to criticize government-fueled narratives on the pandemic. As The Blaze reports:
https://www.givesendgo.com/savealex

Hundreds of news organizations were paid by the federal government to advertise for the vaccines as part of a “comprehensive media campaign,” according to documents TheBlaze obtained from the Department of Health and Human Services. The Biden administration purchased ads on TV, radio, in print, and on social media to build vaccine confidence, timing this effort with the increasing availability of the vaccines.

During the vaccine rollout, the Biden administration made a number of efforts to bolster vaccination rates. The US Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 Public Education Campaign states they employed “both paid advertising and media interviews, presentations, radio/TV tours, and other public events to educate people about the importance of vaccination.”

The L.A Times – an outlet funded by HHS to promote Covid vaccines – runs a morally reprehensible column justifying mockery of ‘anti-vaxxer’ deaths.

The HHS website contains public access to all vaccine campaign advertisements for media outlets and beyond. One past advertisement promotes Covid vaccination in children, featuring a montage of selected medical doctors stating in unison,

We can all agree on this: you can trust the Covid vaccine for yourself, or your kids, or your grandkids….I mean it from the heart.

In another ad directed to parents, HHS’ selection of doctors state,

We want you to know, Covid vaccines are ‘safe and effective’.’ My grandkids are vaccinated…what’s not safe is getting Covid.

Is it ethical for the government to dubiously claim Covid vaccines are uniformly beneficial for kids, and contracting Covid is far less “safe” than getting your child double-vaccinated? No such randomized clinical evidence exists suggesting the benefits of the Covid vaccine outweigh the harms in young cohorts with a nearly zero risk of serious outcomes. The concentrated risk of myocarditis in boys and menstrual irregularities in girls suggest the Covid vaccine may be harmful on net. Moreover, is it ethical (for either party) for the federal government to advertise such medical misinformation on platforms allegedly committed to investigating the truth and holding the powerful accountable?

HHS advertisement on the updated Covid booster
A new government ad on the HHS website now promotes the updated Covid vaccine. It falsely claims the new booster shot prevents long Covid and hospitalization when the only available evidence from Pfizer and Moderna are rat studies and a 50-person trial (with an unexplained 2% rate of serious adverse events).

Rather than critically covering such propagandistic attempts to promote a longitudinally ineffective therapeutic with a 1 in 800 serious adverse event rate, major media outlets allowed the federal government to freely spread its misinformation on their platform. The New York Times’ reporting on vaccine-induced myocarditis, for example, downplayed the side effect at every sight and compared it to misleadingly higher rates of Covid-induced myocarditis:

For over two years, the media and government officials have been peddling dangerous misinformation — the very sin they accuse of the conspiracy web of committing — about COVID-19 posing a higher risk to young people than the vaccine. Instead of examining age, gender, and health-stratified risk-benefit ratios, they elementarily look at aggregate data and cherry-pick seemingly beneficial outcomes to justify their “Everyone should get vaccinated!” campaign. A few of umpteen examples:

CNBC: “Myocarditis risk higher after Covid infection than Pfizer or Moderna vaccination, CDC finds”

Reuters: “Higher risk of heart complications from COVID-19 than vaccines -study”

CNN: “Pediatric cardiologists explain myocarditis and why your teen should still get a Covid-19 vaccine”

The Conversation: “Myocarditis: COVID-19 is a much bigger risk to the heart than vaccination”

As an admittedly biased Zoomer, one of the most discrediting media assault campaigns grew in opposition to Joe Rogan’s claim in a June 2021 podcast that healthy 21-year-olds didn’t need the vaccine. Over two years later, Rogan’s judgment has been vindicated — as it was at the time — given the 0.003% mortality risk among 20-year-olds and unusually high rates of myocardial and menstrual-related vaccine adverse events. However, the mainstream media ecosystem conducted a fierce reputational decapitation in response to Rogan’s impermissible dissent from the CDC and Pfizer’s edicts:

The Washington Post: Joe Rogan is using his wildly popular podcast to question vaccines. Experts are fighting back.

The Atlantic: Joe Rogan’s Show May Be Dumb. But Is It Actually Deadly?

Today: Dr. Fauci says Joe Rogan ‘incorrect’ to tell young people not to get vaccinated

NBC: Joe Rogan’s Covid vaccine misinfo matters

The United States wasn’t alone in spending large sums of taxpayer dollars to promote its agenda. The Trudeau government invested over $600,000 in hiring social media influencers to advance federal directives, including the push for Canadians to get vaccinated and boosted.

As CTV reports, Health Canada spent the most on hiring influencers to promote government information; $130,600 was spent towards an “influencer campaign in support of the COVID-19 vaccination marketing and advertising campaign.”

None of this is to mention Pfizer’s vaccine campaigns paying celebrities to rhapsodize about marvellously ‘safe and effective’ mRNA inoculation. Travis Kelce — a professional football player watched and revered by many young American men in particular — promoted getting the updated booster shot and flu vaccine in the same visit.

The journalists I grew up admiring — such as Megyn Kelly, Glenn Greenwald, Alex Berenson (Unreported Truths), and Matt Taibbi (Racket News) — were known for challenging consensus and providing novel perspectives on complex sociopolitical topics. I relied on select journalistic outlets and individual commentators for an honest, independent evaluation of the facts.

The heavily biased coverage of race relations and criminal justice issues in 2020 following the tragic death of George Floyd was self-discrediting but hardly surprising given the dominance of identity politics in elite liberal discourse.

The deterioration of journalistic standards during the vaccine rollout beginning in 2021, however, was particularly disorienting. The Washington Post, NBC, and the New York Times should have held the Biden administration’s feet to the fire for promoting experimental vaccines in all Americans irrespective of risk and continued revelations regarding concerning side effects.

They miserably failed to do so.

The last standing bulwark against government propaganda and censorship is crumbling before our eyes, losing relevance by the month. Perhaps a solution for media institutions to earn back credibility is to critically cover federal agencies misinforming the public rather than take funds to promote their agendas.

Just a thought.

Republished from the author’s Substack.

 

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‘I Didn’t Bow Down’: Aaron Rodgers Slams Journalists Who He Says Are Still Upset He Didn’t Take COVID Jab​

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Link: http://www.scoopyweb.com/2023/12/i-didnt-bow-down-aaron-rodgers-slams.html/

New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers hit back at journalists who he said are still upset he didn’t take the COVID-19 vaccine.
During Rodgers’ latest appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show,” the host asked Rodgers about sports journalists calling him out for taking up a roster spot on the team rather than being placed on the injured reserve list [IR] after he tore his Achilles tendon in the first game of the season.

“The same people who are criticizing me or coming up with these conspiracies about my injury, before they talk, let’s go back to 2021 and let’s make people say their vax status to start,” Rodgers said, adding that it “would frame all these comments in the right window.”

“Let’s have them say, ‘Hey, I’m so-and-so, double vaxxed with Pfizer and triple boosted. And my opinion about this is this guy’s a bad guy because he just wanted to practice and took money away,'” he added. “Then at least you’d know, and everybody could know at that point that they have their puppet masters who are puppeteering them to say this certain thing about this guy and that they’re still upset about the fact that I believe in medical freedom.”
Rodgers said these journalists are “still mad I’m COVID MVP. Not just the two MVPs that I won because I didn’t bow down to the medical industrial complex and the mass formation psychosis and I decided to make a decision that was in the best interest of my health.”
“They’re still trying to get their jabs in,” he added. “They’re still trying to take a victory lap you know that somehow I couldn’t beat science this time. Take it easy on the victory laps and have another jab while you’re at it.”
Rodgers ended up returning to the practice field in December. He previously talked about the “newer, innovative” surgery he had undergone in hopes of returning faster and his hopes of coming back to play this season, but in the end, he didn’t make it.
Rodgers made headlines in 2021 when he was accused of misleading comments about his vaccination status, saying he was “immunized.” However, it was later revealed that he had not been vaccinated.

 

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FOX News/Watters comments on the possible Aaron Rogers placement with RFK Jr. for VP, suckers, including Roger's comments on Sandy Hoax

 

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Aaron Rodgers Sparks Outrage After Outlandish Claims About U.S. Government, Dr. Anthony Fauci Creating HIV/AIDS​

Chris Malone Méndez
Wed, April 17, 2024 at 4:35 PM CDT·6 min read

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/aaron-rodgers-sparks-outrage-outlandish-213520618.html/

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New York Jets star Aaron Rodgers has seemingly made as many headlines for his words off the field as he has for his work on the field. In his latest resurfaced controversial claim, the Super Bowl champ suggested that the HIV/AIDS pandemic that broke out in the 1980s was entirely manmade, and connected it to former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci.
Rodgers explained his position on the Look Into It podcast back in March. According to the Jets quarterback, Fauci fumbled the fight against HIV and the rollout of antiretroviral drug AZT. Rodgers called this move the "blueprint" for the U.S. government's COVID response.
"The blueprint, the game plan, was made in the '80s. Create a pandemic with a virus that’s going wild," he said. "Fauci was given over $350 million to research this, to come up with drugs—new or repurposed—to handle the AIDS pandemic. And all they came up with was AZT."

"And if you do even a smidge of research, and I know, I’m not an epidemiologist, I’m not a doctor, I’m not an immunologist, whatever the f--k. I can read, though. And I can learn and I can look things up just like any normal person. I can do my own research, which was so vilified, to even question authority," he added. "But that was the game plan back then. Create an environment where only one thing works. Back then AZT; now, Remdesivir until we get a vaccine."
"By the way, we know Fauci had [a] stake in the Moderna vaccine and we know Pfizer is one of the most criminally corrupt ever, the fine they paid was the biggest in the history of the [Department of Justice] in 2009," he continued. "What are we talking about? We’re going to put our full trust in science that can’t be questioned?"

Fauci's purported links to Moderna, which presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (who coincidentally was reportedly considering choosing Rodgers as a running mate) also espoused, have long been debunked. Rodgers' claims of Fauci and other researchers engineering HIV with the help of the U.S. government for the purpose of unleashing a pandemic on the public have—to put it lightly—not been historically or factually proven. The virus is believed to have jumped from primates to humans as early as the late 1800s.
Related: Aaron Rodgers Says He's Lost Millions Due to His COVID Stances
Many online were furious about Rodgers' comments as they began to recirculate on social media. "So cool that the NFL effectively blacklisted Colin Kaepernick for his racial justice stances. But Aaron Rodgers can spout reckless conspiracies about HIV, Sandy Hook, etc., and continue to be one of the highest-paid players in the league," one person wrote on X.

Another user jokingly contrasted some of Rodgers' public statements with those of retired seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady.
"Tom Brady last week: 'I’m gonna work harder. I’m gonna care more. I’m gonna show up earlier. I’m gonna put more time in. I’m gonna work later. I’m gonna study more. I’m gonna do things other people aren’t willing to do.' Aaron Rodgers this week: 'The government created HIV,'" they said, adding, "It has been simultaneously overcovered and undercovered that one of the greatest athletes in history had their brain melted by COVID and is now a full-blown loon."

"The first recorded AIDS death was a teenager in St. Louis in the late '60s. There's some evidence that HIV goes back to the 1920s. Aaron Rodgers is such a maroon [sic]," another chimed in.

Others added to the chorus of evidence that HIV existed years before the panic of the '80s. "My uncle was a medical doctor in Africa. HIV existed decades before 1980s America. Aaron Rodgers is a f--king moron," one person stated plainly.

While Rodgers himself acknowledged he's not a medical professional, one person online pointed out that he doesn't even have any education credentials beyond a high school diploma.
"Aaron Rodgers has no college degree. He majored in American Studies while he was at UC Berkeley. He left school early to join the NFL before he graduated and never return to finished his degree in American Studies. So obviously he’s an expert about the origins of HIV," they said.

Another X user wants Fauci to take legal action against Rodgers for his reckless statements. "I really hope Dr. Fauci sues Aaron Rodgers into oblivion after he said Fauci created AIDS along with the U.S. government," they said.

Rodgers is set to return to the field with the Jets later this year after his first season with the team ended after just four plays last year. Fauci stepped down from his longtime position as director of NIAID in 2022 and is now a faculty member at Georgetown University.
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