Normally, I would let this go, but I got to thinking about quarterback-in-exile Colin Kaepernick and how he basically got sidelined by the NFL for taking a knee to protest police brutality and has yet to see another game day snap. Aaron Rodgers, on the other hand, got sidelined for not taking a needle and was fined for violating NFL protocol, but will likely be back on the field in the next week or two. And, if history has anything to say about it, if the Packers make the playoffs, all will be forgotten and forgiven by the average Packer fan.
Kaepernick taking a knee caused no injury to anyone, as the First Amendment allows all the right to protest (though not the right for everyone to agree with it). Rodgers says that he is a "critical thinker" and he had the right not to be vaccinated. You might say he is protesting against vaccination/taking a knee against those who would want anyone who can be vaccinated to do it. The difference is that while both players could be labeled as "selfish" for their actions, only Rodgers legitimately endangered the lives of his co-workers/teammates. Worse still is that Rodgers was given a megaphone to articulate his beliefs by his celebrity so that other similarly-minded persons can do the same thing and claim, "Hey, if Aaron Rodgers can do it, so can I"--like it is a virtuous thing. Meanwhile, in the metropolitan area of Green Bay, almost 58,000 people have contracted COVID-19 and 443 people have died from it as of 11/4. As far as I know, nobody in San Francisco died from Colin Kaepernick taking a knee.
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