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.