Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been the subject of this week's sports discourse after it was announced that he tested positive for COVID-19 and would sit out Sunday's game.

In August of this year, Rodgers told reporters he'd been "immunized" to COVID-19, which at the time gave people the impression that he had been vaccinated, as the NFL had been pushing teams and athletes to get vaccinated against the virus.

Rodgers' diagnosis was not a breakthrough case, however. It turns out, Rodgers was not immunized at all. When Rodgers said he was immunized, he apparently meant he had been undergoing "homeopathic treatments" to boost his immunity to COVID-19. He appealed to the NFL to consider him vaccinated. The NFL did not.

So Aaron Rodgers was lying? pic.twitter.com/fo4AwDHZk3

— Tom Downey (@WhatGoingDowney) November 3, 2021

For many, this looked as though Rodgers had lied to the world, unlike NBA star Kyrie Irving, who has been vocal about not receiving the vaccine.

Things snowballed Friday after Rodgers appeared on Pat McAfee's talk show to defend himself, and it appears he's dug himself into a deeper hole.

"I consulted with my now a good friend of mine, Joe Rogan…. and I'm going to have the best immunity possible now."pic.twitter.com/YR8rJ1y2jL

— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) November 5, 2021

Rodgers seemed to run through a checklist of anti-vaccination talking points in his interview, saying he has consulted with Joe Rogan about how to give himself "the best immunity," that he is taking Ivermectin, which has not been approved as a COVID-19 treatment, and that he is now being targeted by the "woke mob." All of this combined made him the sudden center of mockery on social media.

"I found a way to protect myself from COVID without taking the vaccine" -a person who is currently infected with COVID

— Turkeynen Ivory Wayans (@BostonJerry) November 5, 2021

some of those in NFC Northses
want the paste that’s for horses

— havana syndrome survivor (@AllezLesBoulez) November 5, 2021

It would be impossible to draw up a more stereotypical antivaxxer argument than the one being outlined by Aaron Rodgers today.

For someone who believes he's a "critical thinker," he sounds identical to every old lady in my Ivermectin Facebook groups and Q Telegram channels.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 5, 2021

Aaron Rodgers quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in his anti-vaxx rant today.

No one, and I mean no one, loves an MLK quote more than a white person that’s clearly in the wrong.

— Colb (@___Colb___) November 5, 2021

It is unclear if or when Rodgers will play again this season. If he does come back and the Packers suffer in his absence, he will have more than the "woke mob" to worry about.