Aaron Rodgers blasts California's COVID rules: "State's going to sh--"

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rogers ripped how California’s COVID-19 restrictions had hurt his hometown of Chico during a recent podcast appearance.

On an episode of Bill Maher’s Club Random released on Sunday, the NFL star did not mince words about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s onerous pandemic protocols.

“State’s going to sh-- but I’m hanging on,” he told Maher. Rodgers reportedly still owns a home in California.

“I grew up in a small town, very little cases up in Chico, Calif., but all the small businesses? Fucking gone,” the 38-year-old quarterback added about how social distancing rules and mask mandates affected local businesses.

“I mean our favorite restaurants in LA, in New York, and across the country, not just in big cities, but some crazy percentage will never open again.”

The Packers QB went on to address other issues connected to his refusal to get vaccinated against COVID. He revealed to Maher that, despite his pro-life views, he was pro-choice on abortion in the name of bodily autonomy.

“I think there’s a lot of people that believe that you should have your own decision-making on your own medical decisions,” Rodgers said.

“My thing is I have an issue with the hypocrisy in society in general and I know you do as well, but abortion has been a hot topic, right. And especially after Roe v. Wade got overturned and sent back to the states, or whatever. I don’t believe the government should have any control over what we do with our bodies.”

He also expressed disappointment over how Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, another outspoken skeptic of COVID vaccines and mandates, was barred from the US Open because of his unvaccinated status.

Rodgers revealed on the Joe Rogan Experience last month that he had purposefully answered early questions about his vaccine status with “I’m immunized” to sidestep the point without dodging it outright.

“I thought there’s a possibility that I say, ‘I’m immunized,’ maybe they understand what that means, maybe they don’t. Maybe they follow up. They didn’t follow up,” Rodgers told Rogan.

“So then I go [into] the season, them thinking, some of them, that I was vaccinated.”