Anyone know what is his medical exception?
What so because Djokovic is a good tennis player he is a physical and psychological übermensch and above any criticism for his behaviour? Do yourself a favour: take your dick out of his mouth, learn to think for yourself and get a grip, man.
not being vaccinated during a pandemic is just plain stupid. You probably will quote me “but the risk of myocarditis is 2/100,000 with the vaccine”. Guess what, your risk of myocarditis is 80/100,000 if you get a Covid infection (a 40 fold increase in the risk for the unvaccinated). Ditto, your risk of stroke if you get Covid is way higher than the risk from the vaccine.
but that aside. This has nothing to do with vaccines. He either lied to a country and blatantly broke their laws. Or he knowingly exposed people to a virus that has killed millions, and did not give a flying **** for those people. It is grand for the likes of him if they get Covid. He will have all the best care. But the people that he spread it to will certainly not have the same care
If he had a PCR test, they obviously had a strong enough suspicion that he had Covid. if you are symptomatic and waiting for PCR test, you should be isolating.
Also, Djokovic is not you or I. I am certain that he did not attend the local testing centre. PCRs can be fast-tracked and back within 3 hours. He definitely wasn’t waiting for the automated text from the health service.
so yeah, scum-baggery!
Looks like he got a fake failed test just get into the tournament.
I completely agree with his choice of not getting vaccinated, but he has behaved like a complete bellend (as he has for years). He behaved like a bellend last year when he was looking for special treatment for quarantine. He has behaved ridiculously for this in that he was clearly not wanted in the country.
Tennis players are close to actors for levels of narcissism. They live in very close nit bubbles, where they are above and beyond the centre of universe. Female tennis players usually end up marrying their coaches because their universe has a population of about 10 people.
As I said previously, just keep the trophy, don't give it back to them, devalue the least prestigious major by not attending, and never attend any gathering events after he retires. It will hurt them more than him. He can win his 21st at Wimbledon or the US Open.
But of course he has to behave ridiculously. Turning up with fake tests, incorrect documents and not leaving the country when he was first rejected. He's coming across as desperate.
That's the thing: The Guardian didn't explicitly say the first event (with the National Postal Service) occured on 17th, but led you to believe so by quoting Djokovic's tweet from 17th. Many other sources say it was 16th. That's the thing I didn't like - I would expect such manipulation from some less respectable publication, not from the Guardian.
The second event, the one with kids and some tennis association occurred on 17th.
I know this may seem as being too pendantic, but considering that other sources gave more precise information, one must wonder why the Guardian didn't do the same ? It wouldn't help Djokovic much, but this looks like the journalist tried to make him look a bit worst if that was possible. At least, that's my impression.
Anyway, we will most probably see him deported on Monday, and the focus of media will move onto TA and miscommunication to the players. This year's AO will be remembered because of this controversy.
Djokovic will remain unpopular as he was. He can't be any less popular than he is now, unless he finds himself in the center of some nasty, criminal, sickening scandal.
All this hatred towards Djokovic gives me a good laugh. It clearly challenges the narrative peddled for the last year that unvaccinated are somehow inferior or miscreants even.
"No way could an antivaxer hold a higher standard of physical, psychological or be of a higher social tier than mine! Get him!"
The guardian said the event took place on 17th December. Is the guardian wrong?
AFAIK, they celebrate Christmas later, after the New Year, so it is unrelated.
That's the second event. The first one, with the postal service, which I was referring to, and which was referred in the article with Djokovic's tweet was on 16th. Tweet was on 17th.
not really correct there at all either Kyrgios plays very little tennis really and goes out in the early rounds because he's not motivated to apply himself but he's actually a big draw with crowds and only gets a bad crowd reaction if he acts the maggot.
he's normally well received but soon gone as said
the fact is that Djokovic has won many of his slams in situation of crowd adversity, like if was playing Federer at Wimbledon but that never stopped him winning - some say that he actually thrives on it
What have vaccinations got to do with politic-bores? Maybe science-bores?
I think most people will find his behaviour abhorrent.
I doubt it because the average tennis fan is a tennis fan, not a politics bore. And not every politics bore is a determined vaccine-absolutist anyway though obviously many are.
If he played in the AO very soon I'd imagine there'd be some colourful booing at his opening match. But there's no reason to assume normal tennis fans will be holding years-long bitter grudges.
He'll get worse abuse at any of the slams than Kyrgios ever got.
I actually do not know but the family all deliberately all got jabbed before Christmas... i have not got boost yet...
you obviously haven't been following Tennis much for the last 10 years
If he was going to fake a positive test, why would he have faked it for Dec 16, after Dec 10 the deadline?
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!
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
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......
Yeah but I mean in this case he had self-serving reasons to take umpteen tests. To show he had 'natural' antibodies.
It looks dodge but newspapers can spin anything to get their story, even reatively respectable broadsheets. I suppose we'll find out anyway.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
I find it hard to believe that a known anti-vaxxer would be taking routine tests.
So basically you have no proof then?
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?
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.
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