Aaron Rodgers tries to clear the air following COVID-19 positive test

Aaron Rodgers has broken his silence about his positive COVID-19 test.

Rodgers made one of his regular appearances on The Pat McAfee Show to discuss the events of this week. The Green Bay Packers quarterback tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, but reports have come out about his vaccination status and whether or not Green Bay followed the proper protocols.

McAfee told Rodgers “the floor is yours,” and he attempted to clear the air on the entire situation.

Aaron Rodgers: ‘I’d like to set the record straight on so many blatant lies that are out there about myself right now’

“I realize I’m in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now, so before the final nail gets put in my cancel culture casket, I think I’d like to set the record straight on so many of the blatant lies that are out there about myself right now,” Rodgers told McAfee and former teammate AJ Hawk. “First of all, I didn’t lie in the initial press conference. During that time, it was a … witch-hunt that was going on across the league where everybody in the media was so concerned with who was vaccinated and who wasn’t and what that meant and who was being selfish and who would talk about it and what it meant if they said it’s a personal decision, they shouldn’t have to disclose their own medical information and what not.

“At the time, my plan was to say that I’ve been immunized. It wasn’t some sort of ruse or lie, it was the truth. … Had there been a follow-up to my statement that I’ve been immunized, I’d have said this: ‘Look, I’m not some sort of anti-vax, flat-earther. I’m somebody who’s a critical thinker.’ … I believe strongly in bodily autonomy and the ability to make choices for your body. Not to have to acquiesce to some woke culture or crazed, you know, group of individuals who say you have to do something. Health is not a one-size-fits-all for everybody.

“For me, it involved a lot of study in the offseason, much like the study I put into hosting Jeopardy or the weekly study I put into planning the game. I put a lot of time and energy into research and met with a lot of different people in the medical field to get the most information about the vaccines before making a decision. In actuality, it was pretty easy in the beginning to eliminate two of them. It didn’t involve going into the questionable history of some of their criminal activities, some fraud cases or any of that stuff.

“It was simply the fact that I have an allergy to an ingredient that’s in the mRNA vaccines. So on the CDC’s own website, it says, ‘Should you have an allergy to any of the ingredients, you should not get one of the mRNA vaccines.’ So [Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines] were out already, so my only option was the Johnson & Johnson. At this time, in the early spring, I had heard of multiple people who had had adverse events around getting the J&J. No deaths or anything, but just some difficult times and physical abnormalities around the J&J shot.

“Then, in mid-April, the J&J shot got pulled for clotting issues, if you remember that, right? So the J&J shot was not even an option at that point. So then, my options became, ‘OK, what can I do to protect myself and my teammates if there’s not one of the big three options for me in my own body.'”