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Aaron Rodgers' injury blamed on refusal to vaccinate by left-wing political commentator

Was this a little too far from Keith Olbermann?

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Aaron Rodgers' refusal to vaccinate during the pandemic was pretty straight forward, his body didn't react well to some of the components of the mRNA vaccines. Despite this, the media and the NFL chastised him for it and he paid with a long suspension. Last Monday, he suffered a complete Achilles tendon rupture that effectively pushed him to the brink of retirement. Most people are extremely shocked by the news and almost everybody is sending messages of . But not Keith Olbermann, the left-wing political commentator earned his controversial figure of the year nomination by openly mocking the QB. But if that wasn't ebough, he blamed this Aaron Rodgers injury on his refusal to get vaccinated.

Keith Olbermann is met with online hate

As a result, it was only expected that people would side with Aaron Rodgers in this troubling time for his career. People on X are not happy with the tweet from Olbermann, who didn't hesitate to double down after the New York Jets announced their quarterback was missing the entire season due to this injury. In his initial tweet, he laid it all plain and simple for the world to react. This is what he wrote on his X : "Another #SuddenLisfranc due to failure to vaccinate," wrote Olbermann on his X, formerly known as Twitter . He also doubled down by posting the hastag, #SuddenUnvaccinatedInjury as a reference to the many sudden deaths taking place all around the world that anti-vaxxers are blaming on vaccines.

Rodgers has been constantly criticized for refusing to take the vaccine but recent events are turning people back on his side. There have been many strange occurances in which people have been either injured or killed in sudden fashion. That is not a conspiracy theory, that is simply a fact but it is still disputed whether these injuries or deaths had anything to do with vaccines. Surely, Aaron Rodgers won't pay too much attention to what people like Olbermann say about him. All that matters now is his speedy recovery and the potential decision to retire before he expected. Keith Olbermann's attacks respond to a fundamental disagreement many had with Aaron Rodgers for refusing to take the vaccine during the peak of the pandemic.

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