Djokovic

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.

AFAIK, they celebrate Christmas later, after the New Year, so it is unrelated.

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!"

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.

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

Haha, I never said he couldn't be criticised. I said your hatred of him gives me a good laugh.

I think he was very silly to even entertain the idea of entering Australia, a nation of pushovers who've bent over and presented themselves to their sadist government.

You seem to make a lot of claims but have no way of backing them up. Vaccinated or not-vaccinated, I take a dim view of anybody who does not adhere to isolation guidelines with an acute infection.

So, the facts of the case: he applied for a medical exemption on the basis of having had C19 (PCR result published date on 16/12). He met a crowd and engaged in no social distancing/masking on the 17/12. Now, either he did not have Covid, rendering his application false OR, he either knew about his infection and mingled or there was a delay in transmitting his positive result to him. However, he mingled knowing full well that he had a PCR test for Covid in the previous days.

He was seen again in public with no mask on the 25/12. Guidelines at the time stated he should isolate for 14 days.

'You seem to make a lot of claims but have no way of backing them up'

Lol

What claims have I made? Everyone else is claiming that Djockovic is definitely a liar or has a definitely endangered others but can't provide details and don't want to wait for details but insist on jumping the gun with accusations of wrongdoing and cursing him out as some kind of criminal.

From this I conclude they have a bias against him (for being unvaccinated) since if they didn't have a bias they would just wait for the full story to emerge.

As I said, maybe he takes tests routinely and didn't suspect himself of having covid. I don't know, you don't know.

If you wrote this against some Irish person you would be sued for libel and have to pony up hundreds of thousands of euros.

Trying to help it's people? Ha! If staying safe is your life goal then wrap yourself up in bubblewrap and stay at home for the rest of your life. You don't need a government to help you do this.

He did have a PCR result pending-> result published on 16/12 (whether or not he knew the result is open for the debate).

he did mix and did have a recent PCR test.

Tell me what I said that is untrue?

And you base your entire argument on suppositions. I could claim that you are libelling me, by making claims that I am committing a criminal act? No?

And don’t forget the part that he was taking the PCR tests because he was hoping for a false positive (because according to the poster, the PCRs aren’t that reliable🙄)

Just for context GrowLeaves, the current false positive rate for rtPCR is believed to be 1/1000

Simple answer, arrogance leading to stupidity.

Who's going to question a positive result to meet the criteria to travel on the day you're leaving when you're the no.1 seed and title holder.