Aaron Rodgers suggests the 1980s HIV/AIDS pandemic was created by the federal government and immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci in a bizarre months-old clip that has resurfaced: “The plan was made in the ’80s “.
Aaron Rodgers’ issues with Dr. Anthony Fauci didn’t start with the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. As resurfaced footage from March reveals, the New York Jets quarterback has suggested that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases helped design the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s with support from the federal government.
“The plan, the game plan was developed in the ’80s,” Rodgers said during a Zoom interview with the Look Into It podcast.
Fauci, who led the U.S. response to the coronavirus under the Trump and Biden administrations, previously faced the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. It was during this time that he was often criticized for the government’s response to the virus, because more than 100,000 victims died between 1981 and 1990.
“Create a pandemic, with a virus running amok,” he continued. “Fauci received more than $350 million to research this topic, to develop new and repurposed drugs to fight the AIDS pandemic.” And all they found was AZT,” Rodgers continued.
“And if you do even a modicum 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 research things like any normal person. I can do my own research, which is so reviled, to the point of questioning authority.
Aaron Rodgers, who plays for a team owned by a pharmaceutical giant, has regularly targeted Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been criticized for his response to the HIV and COVID-19 virus crisis.
Rodgers then linked Fauci’s past controversies over the HIV/AIDS epidemic to the government’s response to the coronavirus, which has been blamed for more than 1 million deaths in the United States.
“But that was the game plan back then: create an environment where only one thing works. At the time, AZT. NOW? Remdesivir,” Rodgers continued, referring to an antiviral drug created in the wake of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
One of the many AIDS protesters in the 1980s
Fauci did not invent Remdesivir, nor did he profit from the creation of Remdesivir, but the canard remains a talking point among his critics.
Rodgers also accused Fauci of having a “stake in the Moderna vaccine,” although he did not cite any sources for his information.
“And we know that Pfizer is one of the most criminally corrupt organizations of all time,” Rodgers continued. “The fine they paid was the largest in DOJ (Department of Justice) history in 2009. What are we talking about? We will place all our trust in science which cannot be questioned.
There have been numerous misrepresentations about Fauci regarding his work fighting the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2022.
Many have claimed that the majority of AIDS patients died because of drugs developed when Fauci was leading the national response to the emerging epidemic — not because of the virus itself.
However, an Associated Press fact check found this to be false.
While it’s true that Fauci was a leading researcher when AIDS emerged in the 1980s, claims that azidothymidine, commonly known as AZT, killed more people than the virus itself are baseless.
Act UP members and others demonstrate around the White House to protest the lack of funding for AIDS research by President George HW Bush’s administration.
Public health agencies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the World Health Organization, as well as leading AIDS organizations and researchers, told The Associated Press that the medication was still used today, as it was found to be effective in controlling HIV when used. in combination with other medications.
Many others have accused Fauci of profiting from the COVID-19 vaccine, but again, the evidence is lacking.
A 2020 PolitiFact.com article described one such claim, originating from Facebook, as false.
Rodgers was recently considered to become a third-party candidate and running mate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., another COVID-19 vaccine skeptic, for the current presidential race. Ultimately, he was passed over by tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan.
Instead, the 40-year-old four-time MVP will return to work for the Jets, a team owned by billionaire Johnson & Johnson heir Woody Johnson.
