DThe pandemic code of conduct agreement between the league and the NFL player union is a gem of American law: it is 93 pages long and packed with ifs and buts, so perfect to avoid any dispute over its interpretation. place.
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Probably Aaron RogersThe quarterback of the Green Bay Packers at least scanned this document before deciding not to be vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus at the beginning of the season, which is different from 93% of his colleagues in the National Football League. Because the agreement clearly allows this. But it also contains a list of fines that shouldn’t impress people like Rogers, who made $22 million this year: the fine for the first violation was $14,650.
That’s why the 37-year-old player sounded calm on Friday through a video report of former NFL bettor Pat McAfee’s daily talk show on the couch of his home in the suburb of Green Bay. Just the day before he learned that he had tested positive for the new coronavirus, he had been quarantined for at least ten days. The performance showed that Rogers not only violated NFL regulations (“some regulations have no scientific basis”), but also costed a completely different world view of the fight against the pandemic that has caused 754,000 deaths in the United States so far.
Rogers: “I am immune”
For example, a few weeks ago, he provided “over 500 pages of research” to the alliance concerning the effectiveness of wearing a mask and a vaccine allegedly allergic to him. He strengthened his immune system through homeopathy. He had sought alternatives from so-called experts, such as treatment with the drug ivermectin, which is used in veterinary medicine to deworm horses.
At least, why did the 2011 Super Bowl champions and spiritual comrades stubbornly oppose the demand to protect the public and accept the risk of infecting themselves and others: they have chosen their own truth together. All so that their counter-attitude can be supported by arguments in some way.
Only one day later, the first advertising partner found himself under pressure to act in the face of this persistence. On Saturday, Prevea Health, a network of more than 400 medical institutions and clinics in Wisconsin, announced a contract with Rogers. Michael Miller, a professor and advertising expert at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, suspects that this reaction is not the whole story: “Rogers’ problem is that he is considered dishonest.” A few weeks ago, he asked reporters if he had been vaccinated. The answer was misleading as follows: “I have been immunized.” Although the team management described his actual vaccination situation in the photo, it has never corrected this statement and is now behaving badly.
So far, it is not clear how the quarterback was infected. His partner, actress Shailene Woodley (Shailene Woodley) recently came out as a supporter of alternative medicine. Part of their ambition is to drink their own mountain spring water, to produce toothpaste and natural remedies themselves, and to avoid the use of products from the pharmaceutical industry.Part of the league’s research was a Halloween party attended by Rogers and Packers players Marcedes Lewis and Randall Cobb-which may violate the rules of the epidemic National Football League For players who have not been vaccinated.
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One of Rogers’ curiosity on the talk show is his T-shirt. It shows the stylized face of actor Val Kilmer and a sentence from the Hollywood movie “Tombstone”: This manly said that Wild West legend Doc Holliday before the revolver duel Shout to the opponent: “Say…”. When Dr. Holliday died, he was only 36 years old. He died not from bullets, but from tuberculosis, the same infectious disease as Covid-19.
