Rogers and the Unvaccinated

 This past week we learned that Aaron Rodgers, QB liar and right-wing nut, has not been vaccinated and will miss at least one game.  He announced he had contracted Covid-19 after telling the club and presumably his teammates that he had been "inoculated" sometime in the past.  Whelp.  Where to start?

This guy, who had at one time auditioned for host of Jeopardy, and by most accounts was quite good, has shown himself to be many things:

1.  Liar and prevaricator.  He lied to his teammates, to the Packer front office, to to his fans.  He had not received the vaccinations he said he did, instead doing some kind of voodoo with a physician having to do with antibodies.   

2.  Right-winger.  Not everyone on the right or far right is whacko.  But if you are whacko, you are probably right or far right.  Google it.  How many left-wing evangelists have fallen to the virus?  How many left-wing radios hosts have died?  The right is the world of the whack jobs, and Rodgers, by going along with Trumpist medical talking points has landed squarely in the land of Whack.  

3.  Dumb.  You don't have to be smart to be an actor, quarterback or old juvenile counselor.  But you can appear smart if you get vaccinated.  Rodgers was/is simply dumb.  It took a lot of thinking to bypass all the routes to avoid getting the jab.  But he is still dumb.

4.  Ruined reputation.  Like him or not, Packer fan or not, Rodgers is a pretty gosh darn good football player.  But he will now be remembered for being a dumb, right-wing, lying jerk.  And as we all know now, if you are a Trumpist, you have a kind of taint that screams, "Storm the Capitol!"

Someday Covid will be controlled, tamed and no longer mentioned as lead in news reports.  It will always be a killer, however.  Someday Trumpism will be controlled, tamed and no longer the lead in news reports.  But the damage it has done to us as a people, our institutions and reputations of people who followed will be with us forever.