It seems that, sure, we’re still doing this. And by this, I imply talking about COVID. The four-year anniversary of Rudy Gobert placing the world on lockdown is six months away, but Aaron Rodgers and Travis Kelce are within the information for differing views on the vaccine.
Rodgers referred to as Kelce “Mr. Pfizer” after the Kansas City tight finish did a flu/booster advert, and Kelce addressed the nickname throughout Friday’s press availability, mentioning that the sidelined Jets quarterback is employed by Woody Johnson — an inheritor of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical firm, the identical firm accountable for vaccinating giant swaths of the nation.
While Kelce tried to play it off like he’s as tired of all this because the American inhabitants, mentioning J&J says the alternative. At this level, although, each side get it: The individuals who belief science are authorities pawns, eagerly lapping up autism juice, and anti-vaxxers are quickly going the way in which of doomsday preppers, getting the uncooked, uncut “truth” straight from the poisoned nicely.
If you had former surgeon common Jerome Adams in your BINGO card of unlikely folks to wade into the Taylor Swift-Kelce-Rodgers triangle of stupidity, you’ll be able to mark that tile. In a now-deleted submit on X, Adams wrote:
“Player A: Takes unregulated psychedelics, out for season. Player B: Takes FDA-approved vaccine, dominant on field, team winning, dating T Swift.
“I’m no football expert any more than Aaron Rodgers is a doctor but seems player B is ‘winning,’ no?”
Ugh.
Who cares? How lengthy are we going to maintain doing this? No quantity of cheekiness, or wit will persuade both facet that they’re incorrect. Most vaccinated folks have accepted that COVID boosters are the brand new norm, so cease begrudging them for staying updated in opposition to a virus that — as a result of half of the plenty are satisfied it’s a fabrication — still very a lot does exist.
Yet the individuals who assume it’s a hoax blame China for it, however by that logic, when you assume COVID is pretend, there’s technically no motive to be mad on the Chinese — aside from the standard, authoritarian stuff. I ought to be so fortunate to have a authorities agent controlling my thoughts; a minimum of that approach, it’s all auto-pilot, and there’s no attempting to use logic to human situations that both can’t be defined, or have but to be recognized.
Honestly, the NFL would possibly’ve lucked out with the harm to Rodgers, as a result of he’s presently at peak pettiness, and has a nationwide platform to go full Eli Cash each Tuesday on ESPN. What’s he going to do? Talk about the Jets? I imply, had he performed in opposition to Kansas City, the storylines would possibly’ve revolved across the on-field product, and prevented us from this Perfect Storm of idiocy.
And I believe about that, however very a lot want I didn’t should — form of like COVID.
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