Anyone know what is his medical exception?
Why on earth if you had a pcr test would you go round the next day as if you didnt?
It isn't clear if he even had symptoms when he took a test. There's no proof that he willingly endangered anyone. The story is clickbait without the full facts being known. You're prepared to assume he was in the wrong.
that was a self-imposed deadline by Tennis Australia so yes may appear that it was extended.
hardly the first time that a deadline was extended, especially by the same small body itself that set it, the likes of which Tennis Australia is.
only 26 people applied - it's not the tax year deadline date.
we don't know how many applied after the 10th of December
and yeah, obviously they might extend it for the number 1 ranked player in tennis
Personally, I think he got a dodgy doctor to say he had covid rather than him actually going out and potentially infecting children whilst hugging them. But then that's fraud for trying to enter Oz. Could he be looking at a sentence? If I was him, I would be getting out of Oz pronto before he's charged with something.
'Another scenario is he never had covid and committed fraud to enter Oz. Maybe he should fly home before he gets charged in that case?'
I don't believe it but hey yeah good scenario, hopefully he's reading boards.ie so he knows to go on the lam to dodge a fraud charge.
I dunno, farce turning to fiction at this stage , my stance is quite clear, both he and Australian Tennis association have been acting the maggot when it comes to the rules. A wink and Nod, an accommodation so to speak and it's BS from start to finish.
The latest nonsense has gone from an alleged serious medical condition, to suddenly getting covid , but of course having caught covid, he felt it appropriate to attend an event with young Tennis players the very next day😳 how thoughtful of this normally selfish P***K
He's at the very back, the smug B***X
Thats possible I guess. I wouldn't really care if he had or not as he has prior immunity from having had covid back in 2020 and vaccines passes are an abberation/unethical particularly when a varient like Omicrom is going around which completely evades the vaccine when it comes to infection. A vaccinated person is just as likely to transmit it as an u vaccinated person as we can see with out 26,000 cases a day (probably twice or even three times as many actual infections as being reported every day) in this country where over 95% of the adult population has been vaccinated. So good on him if he's ignoring unjust and illogical laws. But yeah, he wouldn't want to get caught although I don't really see how he would get caught unless his doctor feels like losing his medical license if that's what actually happened.
It's been explained numerous times already but can you really not work out why someone would test regularly in a world where covid passes are required and infection grants you a covid pass, and where up to 80% of cases are asymptomatic? It's not at all difficult to figure out if you can put yourself in someone else's position although that's a skill people seem to be losing rapidly.
The event was on the 17th , indoors , maskless and with children. Confirmed on that date as taking place that day by the Serbian tennis federation. The accusations don't appear to be misplaced.
I presume the oz govt. could ask for proof of infection? Also could do an antibody test to see if he has had a recent infection?
Well she was off work for 2 weeks before she contacted so its unlikely it came from work...
That's scary. Do you reckon the vaccines don't work?
Awful behaviour by Djokovic. I imagine he'll get booed everywhere he goes now.
Why would anyone assume he deliberately endangered anyone unless they had an agenda? You have an agenda, you're against anyone who is unvaccinated. Do you even watch tennis normally?
It isn't likely that he committed fraud or deliberately exposed people to danger, but don't worry he'll feel the full force of the law if anyone can prove anything.
I watch the grand slam events. Been to Roland Garros and Wimbledon but wouldn't be a huge fan. If he went for a covid test because he was a close contact. He shouldn't be in an enclosed area hugging children pending results.
Is it an agenda to expect adults to perform basic precautions?
So basically you have no proof then?
I find it hard to believe that a known anti-vaxxer would be taking routine tests.
As has already been said to you, you don't know what happened. The full facts aren't known. You're assuming Djockovic was in the wrong without knowing he was.
There's no reason to do that except by choice, and if that isn't your bias against the unvaccinated coming into play what is it?
He's a multi-millionaire looking to prove he has antibodies so its perfectly plausible. He can afford to take a test whenever he wants and would gain personally from a positive result.
Of course I don't what happened but since I'm not some kind of disapproving 'Pfizer nationalist' I'm not going to curse and say he's guilty unless someone can first show that he's definitely done something wrong.
It seems to me that he has a lot of integrity and I like him because I'm a tennis fan.
I'm holding full judgment until Djokovic makes a statement. But it isn't looking great on his part. When it's the leading story on the guardian, you have to suspect they have editorial guidelines. Let's not forget, this is a mess of Djokovic's own making for not playing by the rules.
Completely agree with this, i don't believe he contracted covid at all, the timing of the positive test is just too much of a co-incidence, and given the comments of the Serbian president in recent days i doubt there would have been a shortage of Serbian doctors willing to supply a cert to that effect.
Regardless of his reputation he is a known anti-vaxxer for years, long before covid. Those guys don't normally go near a doctor unless it's really bad.
It looks dodge but newspapers can spin anything to get their story, even reatively respectable broadsheets. I suppose we'll find out anyway.
Yeah but I mean in this case he had self-serving reasons to take umpteen tests. To show he had 'natural' antibodies.
They are reporting that the date Djokovic lawyers said he tested positive for covid was 1 day before this event. I suppose Djokovic could have not looked at his phone/E-mail for the whole day......
you don't seem to be very familiar with the full story - maybe read up on it
there were several false narratives put out as the story evolved as detailed ->
he made an error with his visa
he was lying
he didn't have sufficient proof of recent covid
it then transpired that Australia has granted entry into Australia to other players using the same exemption and same recent covid reason but stopped Djokovic
when this came out Australia went to retrospectively "clean up and turf out" these people for the purposes of "retrospective" consistency
you might do well to watch this short video and read the article even tho it has evolved again since then
Either way, he's going to be the most hated man in tennis for the next couple of years. I imagine it will be hard to win any grand slams with the crowd booing you/constantly on your back!
If he was going to fake a positive test, why would he have faked it for Dec 16, after Dec 10 the deadline?
you obviously haven't been following Tennis much for the last 10 years
I actually do not know but the family all deliberately all got jabbed before Christmas... i have not got boost yet...
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