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When asked Djokovic always said he won`t receive vaccine. But he never (!) called anyone to resist.

Thank you, maf. Now I like you more.

A reason to go on living....

For me it's about him breaking rules that that country had in place. If he was set against vaccine, great, don't go there.

Just another celeb that thinks rules are just for others

All rules have exceptions if the rule writer has brains. There is a rule against speeding. Yet, under some conditions, when an ambulance is an hour away and my passenger is bleeding and needs help, cops with brains would actually escort me to the nearest hospital and let me violate red lights and the speed limit.

Rules must serve a purpose - in this case to protect others from being infected. If I have a death wish because it's my body, I should not be forced to get vaccinated.

You cannot get infected by someone who is not a carrier. He was tested and was not a carrier.

This idiocy goes further. The system tells us that even if you are vaccinated you are still a spreader if you are infected. Since I am always a spreader - vaccinated or not - my vaccination is irrelevant to the random people around me. Mask - yes. Distance - yes. Vaccination - no.

Me too.

If he wants to go to Australia, he has to follow Australian entry rules. There should be no exception for someone just because they're a well-known sports person.

And Australia is very strict about disease/infection control; you can't even bring a pre-packed sandwich into the country in your luggage.

He didn't want to go there as a tourist to mingle or create a riot. He was invited to play. But, to blockheads and Gestapos, concepts like common sense don't exist. Rule is a rule is a rule is a rule...Jawohl!

I wonder if QE2 would be denied entry by those morons?

Not that Brits were much better...I remember seeing the poor woman at her husband's service sitting alone and away from everybody but with that idiotic mask that mattered nothing to anybody. But, the rule is a rule...Morons...

but he live from tennis. And was invited and had visa. And some others also avoided vaccine and escaped with it.

A game with rules.


Conditional on fulfilling entry requirements. Which he didn't.


She's Head of State there, so that's a no.

The Australian government admitted he broke no rules and was not considered to be at risk or a risk to others. But he didn't agree politically with the Australian government and at the time that was enough for Australia to mess their pants.

He did make a short video which the gutter press in Australia found and used to wind up the Aussie version of PiS voters....

He followed the rules and Australia still kicked him out for purely political reasons. They said it at the time! And good-thinkers applauded!

Lying on his visa was not breaking the rules?

Would you lie if somebody wants to violate your body?

You say that Serbs in Jasenovas and Jews in Auschwitz were not ready to lie to save themselves from their murderers? But still they died. See, same is with Australian government. They insist you to take vaccine no matter you are declared healthy. Just Djokovic was able to avoid vaccine and Australia. He was of better luck.

How precisely?


To show that disease control is something to be taken seriously and that neither celebrity status nor payola do not exempt someone from the norms of an egalitarian society.

He did not do that.


So results don't matter as long as you take it seriously?

worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/

the results are pretty obvious for anyone who's paying attention....

over-vaccination does not stop covid it increases it

thank heavens Poland got over the vaccination bug early on....

Results don't happen if you don't.

In any way. With vaccine of unknown components, for example.

What do you hope to accomplish with this diatribe? It was a sports thread.


See how he conflates different issues? I say its just flat out BS!

Tennis and Auschwitz. He will say anything to glorify Serbia no matter how stupid it sounds.

I didn`t start this analyzes of Djokovic-Australia issue but nevertheless, interesting where truth pointing out, isn`t it.

This is most interesting value of this venerable forum. Developments of discussion.


or Tennis and Jasenovac.

And Australia's results have not been.... impressive. They went full on authoritarian to vaccinate everybody and the real world data suggests that that type of over-vaccination just guarantees never-ending wave after wave....

Find a country that vaccinated its way out of covid.... go on, I'll wait....

worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/

Didn't his application state he didn't travel while in fact he did? (I didn't follow the whole thing, just remembering hearing things here and there.

And I don't believe he was granted exemption fair and square.

I don't support how Australia dealt with the virus but it doesn'tmatter on a case of a foreigner visiting.

Humans aren`t robots. Australia wants to prove they are. Not just Australia.

no major athlete does their own paperwork, IIRC the person who did fill it out made some mistake (of the kind that often happens). it stank of selective enforcement....


If Australia wants to act like it did, then it doesn't need to be hosting a grand slam event.

Choose - draconian lockdown vaccination measures or hosting a national brand event with equal access to all who qualify.... excluding one of the favorites to win (in the chase to become all time grand slam winner for domestic political reasons was ugly and inexcusable - PRL style politics.

Really believe it? So he somehow managed to miraculously avoid two obstacles? Sorry, I'm not buying it.


It's up to the different bodies to decide. If they decided It's OK the players either comply with that country's rules or stay away

That is their style as regards infection etc. As I mentioned before, you can't even take sandwiches into the country.


Good.

Where has that worked exactly? Oh... that's right... Nowhere!

It's worked a damn sight better than not doing it, as we can see in North Korea and great swathes of Africa including this one.

Novak Djokovic won`t take part in this year US Open



> b92.net/sport/usopen2022/vesti.php?nav_id=2202354

His choice, and no loss to sport.

big loss and for what? a vaccine that's played out and useless?

Incoming - FIBA - The Basketball Channel - Livestream at 20:00 PM Central European Belgrade time

Serbia vs Greece / qualifiers for World Championship

youtu.be/P3EuCjJm_o8