Potential backflip on vaccination stance for Australian Open

As usual, money overrides all.

So unvaccinated non citizens will have more rights than unvaccinated citizens in Australia. What a disgrace.

Why are there still elite athletes who haven't been jabbed.

Go vac yourselves, cupcakes.

Potential backflip on vaccination stance for Australian Open

lol

Yeah stand on yer head do a back flip and get vaccinated whilst playing tennis with a kangaroo down under.

Maybe Djokovic's snub has hurt the egos of the dullards running/ruining Victoria. They're quite happy to send armed cops after dissenters within their own state, but it seems their resolve wavers when people good at hitting a ball refuse to play the game.

Both the men’s and the women’s tours are recommending all players get vaccinated but so far have not enforced it.

They don't want to risk losing the best players, so it's more like a Japanese-style urge.

Unvaccinated tennis players unlikely to get Australian Open visa: state premier

Oct. 19  01:30 pm JST  46 Comments

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diagonalslipOct. 19  04:17 pm JST

unlikely to get visas ........ 

Dan Andrews said he expected no exceptions ..........

hedging his bets much? is there the same 'flexibility' when it comes to Oz citizens vis-à-vis Covid rules and regs?

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Djokovic has forced this u-turn, he's too big and important for them to risk not playing in a major. He would also become a rallying point for others who object to vaxx mandates.

God, I love this bloke - 20 GS already in the bag, men's tennis GOAT, and standing up for human rights in the face of petty tyranny, what a hero!

The Tennis Players nay NOT not need it to participate. But makes sure you get your jab! Keep everyone else safe.

Hugh Montgomery, professor of intensive care at University College London, has just finished a 24-hour shift. He looks knackered and beaten, but not by the hours, nor the cumulative effect of battling a pandemic for 18 months. What gets him, he says, is that many of the patients he is treating shouldn’t be there. ICU beds, which could be used for cancer patients, or elderly people needing hip replacements, are being taken up by anti-vaxxers and Covid-deniers.

“We are running three beds to one nurse. It’s supposed to be 1:1,” says Montgomery. The numbers being admitted to hospital are predicted to rise six or seven-fold this winter. The problem is exacerbated by the burden of keeping Covid patients isolated. “We cannot put a Covid patient next to a cancer or hip-replacement patient, so we are running two health services. It’s not fair. We have got a disease we now understand, a safe vaccine that works, but the wards are full of people who don’t believe that to be true.”

God, I love this bloke - 20 GS already in the bag, men's tennis GOAT, and standing up for human rights in the face of petty tyranny, what a hero!

ROFL, he wants the freedom to spread the virus and you think is standing up for human rights!!!!

All the idiots who don't want the vaccine should have the freedom to sit at home and not interact with their more sensible fellow humans!!!

The rule is patently absurd. Djokovic has had the virus. He has better immunity than anyone who has been vaccinated but hasn't had the virus.

Yeah who would have thought that elite athletes care about what goes in their body?

https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/oct/20/blood-clots-associated-covid-19-vaccine-are-extrem/

this NBA player may never play again.

doctors says? don’t blame the vaccine, blame that he plays basketball?

Basketball players and other high-performance athletes "have been well known to have higher risk for blood clots," said Dr. Shruti Gohil, associate medical director for epidemiology and infection prevention and assistant professor of infectious diseases, at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. 

No @Ingvar - The only thing patently absurd is your complete denial that the vaccine is doing its job. @Blacklabel: Your own website even states the following : The phenomenon is exceedingly rare - and actually offers no conclusive proof (WHATSOEVER) that it caused TTS in this player! You think we don't click on your links?

Yeah who would have thought that elite athletes care about what goes in their body?

Very true dear sir, most of them care about not getting Covid, because you know what, it will cause havoc to their bodies.

this NBA player may never play again.

Did you read the link that you shared, he walked backed on his claim, I am sure that part escaped your attention.

But as I said idiot anti-vaxxers are welcome to go into isolation and not interact with the outside world!!!

The rule is patently absurd. Djokovic has had the virus. He has better immunity than anyone who has been vaccinated but hasn't had the virus.

Indeed, it makes little sense for him to get the vax. He is already better protected than any other player who has not been infected yet.

Of course the liberal media would claim that.

It was the article you chose to try and present your argument. Don't get mad because you didn't read it.

It was the article you chose to try and present your argument. 

My argument was that liberal media and their aligned doctors will do and say anything to claim that nothing bad is related to the vaccine. It proved my point very well, actually.

its “rare”. Can’t “prove it”. Always the answer for every death or vaccine caused heart or blood condition.

Easy to say “rare” when it doesn’t happen to you and when no one is willing to “prove” it because they are mercilessly attacked if they say something off narrative.

enjoy your tennis match without the nine time champion then I guess? Unless he gets exempted.

my point stands, its understandable why elite athletes of all people would want to not put this into their body and suffer some career ending (but “rare”) condition.