Djokovic

You're 100% correct. They are the wrong reasons to get vaccinated.

I'd be pro-vaccine but also take a "real-world" public utility view on this

At the moment vaccines are vital for older and at-risk people in terms of preventing severe illness.

But with currently available vaccines and Omicron, it's obvious with the huge number of cases across highly vaccinated and boosted populations that there very much negligible public utility in terms of current vaccines and spread

Maybe new vaccines will be coming out that will stop spread and then public utility on spread would be restored.

But they are not available now.

So I actually don't have a big issue with non at-risk people being unvaccinated right now - they are not harming society.

they are not spreading in any discernible way more than vaccinated.

they are not denying the rest of us public utility on spread or burdening the health system (very very unlikely to get badly ill, especially with Omicron being proven milder also)

Even if you're one side or the other, the real-world situation out there should be taken into consideration!

(Personally I would still be vaccinated due to the risk-reduction on long covid)

How can you prove if you're Australian or not?

I will grant you that you seem boorish and uncouth and I might be inclined to believe you on that basis.

I see the Sydney Morning Herald are conducting a poll (article and poll in link) and 58% say that he should be allowed play

Many of the comments under the article also seem to indicate that more copped-on Australians seem to have realised that this a cock-up of the politician's making and what is really going on

Who the fook is Jokovic?

I'm supporting Djokovic in this mess because he merely applied to and followed a government and tennis-Australia process like 25 others did and wouldn't have gone near Australia otherwise. Having him go all the way out to Australia and then flip-flopping and deciding to try to fook him over at 4am in the morning at passport control was a pathetic move that has backfired spectacularly.

Djokovic is a looper. You only have to look at some of the other crap he comes out with to know that he's definitely 'out there' when it comes to certain stuff that shouldn't really be up for debate (the bread under the armpit thing is frighteningly absurd). But that's no skin off anybody's nose, really.

They've had one of the harshest lockdowns in the world over there, they kept getting pushed back further over a couple of cases here and there.....literally. I think they had more cases in the first week of 2022 than they'd had in all of 2020 combined. And much like here, there's loads who were unhappy about that and loads who just got on with it. So public sentiment was pretty much divided.

Then Novax comes along and makes a mockery of the whole thing by claiming this and that and pulling dubious test results out of his arse at the last minute. The whole thing stinks, and waiting for an interview after he has successfully managed to circumvent the rules is meaningless. And that IS skin off some peoples' nose. In fact, it's borderline insulting. People had to go for months without getting a coffee or a drink in public, then this guy comes along and says "Oh, I'm exempt......sure I tested positive at some stage........what?...I have to isolate for ten days after a positive test?......well luckily mine expires just in time to play in the tournament....lucky me, I guess".

If I was an Aussie, I'd be fuming. And most of them are.

I still have no idea what was said to allow him to stay because on everything that's been presented so so far to the public, he shouldn't be. Even the stuff with his family is all besides the point. All the talk of how great he is and how he's gonna beat Federer etc is just noise. All it boils down to is:

Was he exempt, yes or no?

Did he test positive? Yes or no, if yes, then when?

Why wasn't this positive test used instead of the exemption in the first place?

Was he off showing a blatant disregard for public safety by having a meet & greet with a load of teenagers while positive/potentially positive?

If he can't satisfy those questions, then bump him onto the next flight home. If he can, then let him play.

He had an exemption granted to him by the Victorian State Government and Tennis Australia

Djokovic or the others granted the exemptions on this process wouldn't have gone near Australia otherwise

The Border Force let other people on it with the same reason in already.

The PM Morrison explicitly voice public opinion last Tuesday supporting the process to "come" to and "enter" Australia

But they Djokovic tweeted and a reaction kicked off and the politician's worried about the optics and the decision was made to target Djokovic at the airport

If you think that the tide isn't turning for many Australians in terms of their view and that they are all intent on projecting their ire at past governmental pandemic policy decisions onto Djokovic (who had nothing to do with that) you're not correct - read the informed comments underneath this article from today - genuine Australians who by now know the score

I still think that it's very much in the balance and that probably the politicians will go for "the ministerial discretion" option and boot him home but that will not work out too well either I think and will only by taken on the basis of "not looking like we backed down"

Djokovic's movements in Serbia will be addressed by him but what he did in Serbia a few weeks ago is not directly relevant to the process here, except in the heads of some.

He has the positive test and again, that hasn't proven to be fake except in the minds of wishful conspiracy thinkers.