Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers drew the ire of COVID-19 obsessives everywhere this week when it was revealed that he had tested positive. The usual hysteria has accompanied Rodgers’s diagnosis, along with the usual condemnation and fearmongering frenzy. Some have claimed Rodgers was endangering others because he misled the media about his vaccination status and, being unvaccinated, put NFL players, nearly all of whom are vaccinated, at risk of a mild case of COVID-19.
The reaction to Rodgers would have you believe that he killed an innocent person while speeding and drunk. But Rodgers did not do that. Henry Ruggs III on the Las Vegas Raiders did, and he did it the same day that Rodgers’s diagnosis was revealed. Somehow, Rodgers is at least as big a villain in the minds of sports media, receiving roughly equal coverage and criticism for his perfidy.
This is not to say that Ruggs has not received criticism or condemnation. He was released from the Raiders and most likely will never play in the NFL again. Yet a quick look at the difference in media coverage helps illustrate the hysteria of the COVID-phobes. Search Google for “Aaron Rodgers COVID” and there are 65,700,000 results. There are only half as many for “Henry Ruggs accident.” Nearly twice as many people are concerned with Rodgers not actually hurting anyone than seem interested in Ruggs actually killing someone.
This is the toxic, maniacal hysteria that the COVID-phobes have created. Actually killing people is merely almost as important as the great sin of contracting COVID-19 while unvaccinated.
The real tragedy this week is that Ruggs made the horrible decision to get into his car while intoxicated and drive it at speeds up to 156 mph, resulting in the death of a woman. If the overarching message here is taking precautionary actions to protect innocent people from harm, then Ruggs is the epitome of wrongdoing.
The COVID-phobes have become a cult primarily interested in judging others and controlling other people’s lives. They don’t really seem as concerned with whether people actually die.
