Aaron Rodgers, the quarterback for the New York Jets, sparked controversy on Tuesday when a video surfaced in which he appeared to imply that Dr. Anthony Fauci and the U.S. government may have been involved in corruption while addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.
Dr. Anthony Fauci gained widespread recognition during the recent coronavirus outbreak spanning the Trump and Biden administrations. However, he has faced scrutiny for his management of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the U.S., which claimed more than 100,000 lives over ten years.
On the Look Into It podcast, Rodgers insinuated that there could have been alternative motives behind Fauci and the government’s approach to these critical health issues.
“The blueprint, the game plan, was made in the 80s. Create a pandemic with a virus that’s going wild,” he said. “Fauci was given over $350 million to research this, to come up with drugs, new or repurposed to handle the AIDS pandemic. And all they came up with was AZT.”
“And if you do even a smidge of research — and I know, I’m not an epidemiologist, I’m not a doctor, I’m not an immunologist, whatever – I can read, though. And I can learn and look things up just like any normal person. I can do my own research, which is so vilified, to even question authority,” he added.
“And we know Pfizer is one of the most criminally corrupt organizations ever,” Rodgers said. “The fine they paid was the biggest in the history of the DOJ [Department of Justice] in 2009. Like, what are we talking about? We’re going to put our full trust in science that can’t be questioned.”
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According to the Daily Mail, critics of Fauci have alleged that most AIDS patients died from a medication being given at the time rather than the virus itself. However, there is no evidence to substantiate this claim.
“While it’s true that Fauci had been a leading researcher when AIDS emerged in the 1980s, the claims that azidothymidine, commonly known as AZT, killed more people than the virus itself are baseless,” noted the Mail.
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Good job, A-a-ron. FRAUDci should have been put in jail. If for nothing else, the little piece of garbage cannot throw a baseball. That is UNAMERICAN. He probably has small hands and could not even grip a football. Good luck next year, Mr. Rodgers.