For Aaron Rodgers, it's all about him
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Letter to the editor in today's SF Chronicle:
Which is worse: Aaron Rodgers, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, “misleading” his teammates and the NFL about his COVID-19 vaccination status and endangering the health of those around him, or Colin Kaepernick, former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, peacefully taking a knee in protest during the playing of the national anthem and endangering no one?
Kaepernick’s football career pretty much has been destroyed, but it appears Rodgers could be back on the field Sunday.
Phil Points
San Francisco
Letter to the editor in today's NY Times Book Review:
To the Editor:
In his review of Steven Pinker’s book “Rationality” (Oct. 31), Anthony Gottlieb writes that “Pinker wants more lessons in schools about reasoning and critical thinking.”
But the problem isn’t, as Gottlieb suggests, making room in the curriculum. Every teacher’s responsibility should be to structure content using critical thinking, which requires valid criteria — standards — to support one’s positions (or judgments).
Criteria vary by discipline. For example, the criteria used in mathematics are different from those used in history or art.
Think about the discussions we could have in classes if they were based on critical thinking.
When responding to a question, students should be required to cite valid evidence relevant to that discipline as reasons for their answers, and not just say, “Because!”
Imagine courses on civic education based on critical thinking, helping us make good judgments about whom to vote for. This is hard work that would mean preparing teachers differently, but unless we think of critical thinking and reasoning as central to understanding, we will make no progress toward their inclusion.
Nicholas M. Michelli
Water Mill, N.Y.
Rob's comment:
Michelli's letter is relevant to the Points letter, since apparently Rodgers never learned the fundamental principle of critical thinking: Where's the evidence for what you believe?
The rationalizations Rodgers provides for his behavior are all about him, not his teammates or the safety of the wider community during a pandemic.
The more Rodgers talks about his health and Covid-19, the dumber he sounds.
Labels: How Religion Poisons Everything, Pandemic, Racism, SF Chronicle, Sports
posted by Rob Anderson @ 2:39 PM
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5 Comments:
Rodgers is allergic to two ingredients in the vaccine. His teammates seem to be fine with it. Everyone is part of the “wider community” so I don’t understand. To Speak of the wider community isn’t Rodgers part of it? Or do we just like implying that he’s selfish for not worrying about the wider community by not taking the vaccine.
So isBy the community selfish by saying although your allergic to the vaccine and it could kill you take the shot to save the rest of us? Unless of course the safety of the “wider community” is selective. If this supposed community is so worried about the community then they should leave the guy alone.
But I get it. Another topic to talk about to keep this pandemic bullshit going. Democrats playing politics. Florida regardless of who may be governor as one republican governor is not the only person living in that state is wide open yet has the lowest numbers in the entire country.
"Everyone is part of the 'wider community' so I don’t understand."
Yes, I can see that you have a problem understanding, which is probably because of you live in a right-wing intellectual bubble.
"His teammates seem to be fine with it."
How likely is it that his teammates would speak out against their team's star quarterback?
"Or do we just like implying that he’s selfish for not worrying about the wider community by not taking the vaccine."
It's not an implication. In fact Rodgers has shown no consideration for his teammates or the wider community by not getting vaccinated. What Rogers says about his allergies and the vaccines is of course unverified and likely bullshit.
"Another topic to talk about to keep this pandemic bullshit going."
The pandemic is "bullshit"? People aren't dying from the virus?
On Florida:
"One factor that might account for the current low case rate is that COVID-19 has already touched many Floridians. The state has seen more than 60,000 deaths from the coronavirus, the third-highest in the nation behind Texas and California. It also had the third-highest total number of COVID-19 cases — 3.6 million — again behind Texas and California. Florida also is among the top 10 states in per capita death rates from COVID-19, at 281 deaths per 100,000 people. Its rate is higher than Texas and California."
Today in the NY Times:
"The Packers knew all along that Rodgers was not vaccinated, and their permitting him to amble around their headquarters and conduct news conferences unmasked — a clear violation of the league’s Covid-19 protocols — reinforced an N.F.L. axiom: The better the player, the more an organization is willing to endure."
The league fined both Rodgers and the Packers for their deliberate negligence.
You don’t know what Rodgers was and is thinking nor do you know what the team or his teammates are thinking. You know damn well had you been allergic to some vaccine ingredients you wouldn’t have taken the shot. I don’t see you killing yourself for the homeless on haight street to help the “wider community” so save that shit.
The NFL dropping a fine one him means nothing. The fine was strictly policy. He wasn’t suspended or kicked out of the league for putting anyone in grave danger.
Your New York Times quote also means nothing. A person sitting behind a keyboard typing a story is no scientist let alone a doctor. “”Might” it’s all their opinion based on disliking a governor that happens to be a republican going against the narrative and following actual science. Had newsom been gov of Florida that article would have told a different story. No one mentions the fact that Florida has huge population of seniors those most at high risk.
That being said I don’t give a shit about last years numbers. We are discussing today. Today the high risk are only those that are older, have a chronic medical condition or heart disease. The same exact risk those people would have with the flu.
He vaccinated have an 0.05% chance of dying. The unvaccinated 0.5% chance of dying. It’s less than 1% chance of dying any which way you fucking slice it. The chance of getting cancer is 39%. You have a population of about 350 million people. Your always going to have cases with or without 100% vaccination. Out of the 350 million people 1300 people die every year from the rarest stroke on the planet. Cases don’t mean shit. In other words it’s over and politics is what’s trying to keep it alive.
Save your bullshit articles and opinions. Go ahead and show the science. Show medical facts, medical reports, scientific studies.
When it comes to the sfmta or these dumb ass projects and bike closers around the SF your dropping statistics and reports left and right. But none on Covid why is that?
No more ass talk from you. You might need to watch that clip on stupidity you posted a few more times.
I've posted under the Pandemic label more than 260 times since it began. Click on "Pandemic" below for a sample. Some of the posts included science links and all of them were about the Covid-19 epidemic.
Your riff on the odds of getting infected is wide of the mark, since it ignores the reality of who exactly is more at risk---those with underlying health conditions and the elderly. Like Ron Desantis has done in Florida, early on for purely political reasons Trump pushed to open the country while the virus was still raging across the country.
Trump downplayed the threat from the beginning. His negligent political response is surely responsible for many of the deaths among the more than 750,000 in the country that have died from the virus, 1,414 yesterday alone.
Trump and his regime committed — or condoned — mass murder. America just doesn't care
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