It’s Time to Take the Argument to the Goal Line.

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I normally tend to stay away from listening to what celebrities have to say, but it was difficult for anyone skeptical of the mainstream narrative not to see NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ name consistently pop up in the headlines during the “pandemic.” At a time when compliance was high, Rodgers was, more or less, a lone wolf among high-profile celebrities speaking out against the vaccines and the restrictions implemented on those who refused them.

Simply for speaking out, Rodgers was regularly lambasted in the mainstream media with labels portraying him as a “conspiracy theorist” and “antivaxxer.” For instance, a November 2021 The Guardian article titled Anti-vaxxer Aaron Rodgers’ spectacular fall from grace happened in record time targeted Rodgers for his “anti-vaxxer buzzwords” and for doing his own research “with the aid of none other than conspiracy theory-minded podcaster Joe Rogan.” The article argued that Rodgers “added to the harm by going on record by spreading misinformation” with “the all-too-familiar language of the nation’s massive anti-vaccination movement.”

A New York Daily News article from the same time was even more harsh, with the headline reading Aaron Rodgers is an anti-vaxxer, a liar and dumb as hell. Not holding back, one of the article’s subheadings read He’s an Anti-Vaxxer and an Idiot. The author then went on to state, “Rodgers is a liar. A big fat one!”

In April 2024, The New York Times ran the headline Will Conspiracy Theories Be Aaron Rodgers’s Achilles’ Heel? The article argued that the QB spent more time “voicing conspiracy theories than playing quarterback.”

Anyone who has publicly spoken out against the fraud of germ “theory,” virology, and vaccines will immediately recognize these buzzwords as a way of attacking the character of the person speaking rather than refuting the argument they present. These are ad hominem attacks that can poison the well, potentially turning people away from listening to an alternative viewpoint before they have even considered the argument.

So, when I came across a recent interview in which Aaron Rodgers discussed what he viewed as the COVID psychological operation (Psy-Op)—language rarely used by mainstream figures—I was intrigued to hear his take and found a lot of common ground beyond simply being subjected to personal attacks for speaking out.

I am sharing a portion of the September 10, 2026 episode of the Not Just Football podcast that focuses specifically on this topic. I am also providing a few of the most relevant highlights that I think deserve a bit of extra attention and context.

This quick 13-minute portion offers a fascinating look back at the absurdity of what transpired during the “pandemic.” Whatever you think of Aaron Rodgers, it is refreshing to see a high-profile athlete speak so openly about the events of the past several years, and to hear him challenge many of the narratives that were treated as unquestionable at the time.

Play by Play

To start things off, Rodgers made a great point early in the interview: when someone immediately attacks your character rather than addressing the substance of your argument, it is often a sign that they do not have an actual substantive response to what you are saying. It can show that you are on the right side of the argument:

2:07–2:15

“You know that it’s like when somebody has an argument and all they can ever say is—they attack your character instead of the content of what you’re actually saying—you know that you’re actually on the right side of things.”

​Noting the hypocrisy in how people were treated as less than human for not going along with the vaccine agenda, Rodgers pointed out how psy-op leader Anthony Fauci admitted that the 6-foot social distancing rule was entirely made up:

2:35–2:44

“The hypocrisy around the treatment of players that were nonvaxxed. The inhumane way that we were treated as secondhand citizens around the facility. The way that we couldn’t do anything on the road, all the six feet of distancing that Fauci, in his own words and his diaries, said was all made up.”

This is supported by Fauci’s testimony to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee in June 2024. Under questioning, the former NIH director admitted that the rule, which had been touted as being based on “science,” had not been supported by a clinical trial. His exact words were that “there was no science behind it.” He stated that the rule “sort of just appeared.”

​Rodgers went on to discuss how the lead doctor for the NFL labeled him a conspiracy theorist simply for questioning why the fully vaxxed were coming down with COVID even though they were supposedly protected:

3:20–3:45

“I’m here on the phone with the head doctor at the NFL, and he’s calling me a conspiracy theorist. When I asked him, ‘Hey, you know, if you get the vax, can you contract or spread the disease?’ He said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Well, tell me this then, doc. Day one I get here, five scouts are out with COVID, all fully vaxxed. How’d that happen?’ And he called me a conspiracy theorist.”

As usual, the “conspiracy theorist” label is used when the contradictions can no longer be explained away. A common tactic is to try to shut down dissent with personal attacks.

Rodgers then discussed why he maintains a healthy skepticism of the pharmaceutical industry, noting the conflicts of interests due to the financial relationships between big pharma and the FDA, CDC, NIH, WHO, etc. This incestuous relationship has been acknowledged for quite some time, with a recent 2025 policy article stating that there are “excessively close associations between FDA and CDC directors and pharmaceutical company sponsors,” which suggests “undue influence” in the decision-making processes.

Rodgers also brought up the Tuskegee experiment as an example for why one needs to remain skeptical:

4:01–4:40

“Have you ever heard of the Tuskegee experiment? And do you not think that everybody should have a healthy skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry when you learn about the FDA and the CDC and their relationship and where the funding comes from? Those organizations and the NIH and all these alphabet gangster agencies who make policies about our health every single day and our livelihood and our privacy. You should have a healthy skepticism, especially if you’re Black. I mean, just learn about the Tuskegee experiment, what they did, and just think, is this the first time they’ve done this, or would they have done other things like that?”

For those unfamiliar, the Tuskegee experiment began in 1932 when the U.S. Public Health Service began a study in Macon County, Alabama, to observe the progression of untreated syphilis. It involved 600 Black men: 399 with syphilis and 201 without it. The experiment lasted until 1972, with five survey periods occurring in 1932, 1938–39, 1948, 1952–53, and 1968–70. The men were not told the true purpose of the study, with researchers describing their condition as “bad blood,” a local term that encompassed several illnesses. They were offered medical examinations, meals, and burial insurance as incentives.

While it is commonly claimed that the men were left entirely untreated, this is inaccurate. At the time, standard medical practices utilized ineffective and often harmful treatments, including arsenic, mercury, bismuth, arsphenamine, neoarsphenamine, iodides and various combinations thereof. When individuals sought treatment outside the study, they were not denied. In 1946, Dr. J. R. Heller reported that about one-fourth of the syphilitic individuals received treatment for their “infection,” with most receiving one or two arsenical injections and twelve patients receiving as many as ten. All but one of the originally “untreated” syphilitics seen in 1968-1970 received therapy, with heavy metals and/or antibiotics given for a variety of reasons by many non-study physicians.

The true horror of Tuskegee is not that penicillin was withheld; it is that these men were kept completely in the dark regarding the true nature of the experiment while being subjected to medical interventions using known highly toxic agents.

​Supporting Rodgers’ questioning of whether similar non-consensual experiments happen unknowingly, another notable example occurred in 1953 when the U.S. Army secretly sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide into the air over St. Louis—targeting low-income, predominantly Black neighborhoods like the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex. The military used roof-mounted blowers and disguised station wagons to disperse the compound. Although officials claimed they were testing protective smoke screens to hide cities from enemy observation, the operation was actually simulating the atmospheric dispersion of biological or radiological agents.

While official reports maintain that the chemical levels were harmless, some residents who played in the fog as children recalled immediate short-term symptoms like headaches, dizziness, and nausea. Many former residents report high rates of rare cancers, tumors, and premature deaths in the neighborhood decades later as evidence of the experiment’s lasting toll.

Rodgers next rejected the idea that his views fit neatly into the conventional left-right political divide. Right wing or left wing, they are both working for the same overall interests. It is an illusion of choice, and the sides are there to divide and conquer:

5:20–5:49

“The right didn’t like me because I played golf with Obama. And then they think because I’m, you know, antivax, that I’m like a right-wing conspiracy theorist, you know, Trumper. And I’m like, first of all, I don’t trust anybody in politics—maybe Ron Paul—but it’s all the uniparty. It’s one party. They don’t give a fuck about regular people. They just keep doing the same policies.”

In the most critical segment of his discussion, Rodgers tackled the core issue: COVID was a psychological operation (psy-op) designed to gauge compliance. Referring to the “pandemic” as a psy-op means that it was a coordinated effort to influence public perception, emotions, and behavior through fear, messaging, social pressure, and appeals to authority. The majority went along, failing to question the narrative because the fear campaign was so effective.

Beyond the rapid acceptance of lockdowns, masks, and social distancing—measures whose effectiveness and implementation were not supported by robust scientific evidence—the effectiveness of the psy-op was reflected in the mass compliance with an experimental vaccine. Fear was used to sell the “virus,” and the “virus” was then used to sell restrictions and mass vaccination campaigns. Rodgers’ estimate that 85% of the population received the vaccine is very close to official figures. By May 10, 2023, the CDC reported 270.2 million people, or 81.4% of the total U.S. population, had received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. Among those aged five and older, however, the figure was 85.8%.

As he pointed out, that compliance carried immense costs as businesses were forced to shut down permanently, never to reopen. Yet, despite the multi-trillion-dollar scale of the operation, it failed in its broader goal: we survived, and we continue to expose and fight back against the injustices of those years:

8:59–10:48

“Outside of the Detroit, Chicago, and Minnesota fans who have a distaste for me because of my time in Green Bay, the majority of it’s rooted in the vaccine, ’cause 85% of the population got it. And they didn’t realize this is a psy-op. This is bio warfare. And that they’re just testing to see how compliant you would be. I live in California in the offseason, right? They were blocking off lookout points where you can pull your car off on the side of the road and look out at the ocean or look out at the mountains. They were arresting surfers. What if any of that had to do with public safety? Are you kidding me? It was all about what can we get away with. And I can go on and on about just the absolute fraud, you know, that was going on and the psy-op. But I mean, you had governors all over the place eating burgers and giving out Krispy Kreme donuts for vaccinations and fast-food places, which are so healthy for you, where the stores that were deemed, you know, uh, what was the word they were using at the time? Like, it was important for it to be open at the time, but you’re shutting down churches. You’re shutting down businesses. You’re shutting down schools except for Gavin Newsom’s kids who go in person. You’re shutting down restaurants. How many restaurants closed all over the world, especially in this country, in some of our greatest cities, that just closed and never reopened because of this idea that, you know, we were endangering each other through this. But then this vaccine, you know, Joe Biden, all the nonvax are gonna have a winter of death coming up, and it’s like we lived through that. We lived through a multi-trillion-dollar worldwide psy-op meant to see how much they can control us. And that’s why people dislike me because I don’t give a shit, I’m going to tell the truth. And the difference between a conspiracy and the truth is time.”

Rodgers called out the fear propaganda, highlighting CNN’s red tickers displaying daily COVID death counts. I have previously covered how this fear-based messaging induces chronic anxiety and stress, leading to the very physical symptoms heightened by media panic, in my articles Fear is the Real “Virus” and Fictional Fear. Despite the immense personal cost of speaking out, including lost sponsorships, media vilification, and damage to his reputation, Rodgers maintained that standing for the truth was far more important:

13:17–14:07

“It’s like the just propaganda that was puppeted every single day. You turn on news, mostly CNN, and you’d see the, you know, do you remember this? The cases and deaths and this rolling timeline supposedly. It’s just crazy. And we made it through it. We made it through it. All of us who were supposed to die unvaxxed made it through it. But I lost as much as most as anybody. Man, you know, I lost obviously any goodwill in the media because, you know, they’re all run by the same people. No sponsors, zero sponsors. Um, reputation. Not many other people suffered the same stuff. Now I’m just like, ‘Go fuck yourself.’ You can have all that, but you’ve got to stand for something in this time.”

Rodgers wrapped up by targeting the absurdity of the narrative, asking a simple question: make the nonsensical make sense:

14:56–15:08

“And tell me again how an unvaxxed person is dangerous to a vaxxed person. Make it make sense. Okay. I am dangerous because I could give you a disease that you were vaccinated for, which is supposed to prevent you acquiring that disease. How does that make sense?”

Hail Mary

Aaron Rodgers has been challenging the COVID narrative for years, often at great personal cost. This was the first time I heard him explicitly call the entire affair a psy-op—a word that cuts through the noise and reframes the debate. For those of us who have been documenting the fraud since 2020, hearing it echoed by someone with Rodgers’ reach is a breakthrough.

​His interview marks a turning point as ideas once confined to independent researchers, dissident doctors, and small online communities are breaking through into the mainstream. For years, anyone who questioned the COVID narrative was dismissed with the same tired arsenal of labels: “anti-vaxxer,” “conspiracy theorist,” “dangerous,” “misinformed.” Rodgers took the hits, brushed them aside, and is hitting back harder than before.

​When someone with Rodgers’ stature says out loud that COVID was psychological, behavioral, and political rather than medical, it brings new ears to arguments that many of us have been making for years. Rodgers has picked up the microphone, and even among those who disagree, many will listen simply because of who he is. That is the power of amplification.

​But this is only the beginning.

Rodgers has taken the first crucial step. Now, he needs to go even further and examine the deeper foundation upon which the entire narrative rests: the “virus” itself.

There was no “virus,” and there never has been one in all of recorded history. Researchers have never properly purified and isolated any presumed “virus” directly from sick humans prior to experimentation, meaning there is no evidence derived from the scientific method that satisfies Koch’s Postulates to prove that any alleged “pathogenic virus” exists and causes disease.

If the alleged “virus” cannot be shown to exist and cause disease through the kind of evidence required by the scientific method, then the rationale for vaccines and all interventions built around that alleged “virus” collapses entirely. Understanding and exposing this would take Rodgers’ argument to an entirely different level. It would give him the perfect play to win the game, opening the door to a much larger reckoning with germ “theory” and virology.

​We are in the final seconds of the game.

The ball is on the 50-yard line. No time-outs remain. One play decides everything.

Rodgers has the arm, the reach, and the courage to throw one more Hail Mary—not just for football glory, but for truth itself.

Now is the moment.

The ball is in his hands.

Booster # 1: Intro to ViroLIEgy

Booster # 2: An Open Challenge to Virologists

Booster # 3: Uncovering the Corona Fraud Part 28

Booster # 4: Where’s the Emergency?

Booster # 5: The Show is Over