"I think if he wanted, he would be playing here in Australia without a problem," Nadal said, following victory at a warm-up tournament in Melbourne.
"He made his own decisions, and everybody is free to take their own decisions, but then there are some consequences.
"Of course I don't like the situation that is happening. In some way, I feel sorry for him. But at the same time, he knew the conditions since a lot of months ago, so he makes his own decision."
Hilarious. Playing the victim like that. Rafa Nadal has put it best:
From a scientific perspective the rule doesn't even make sense, but they are the rules. I doubt he would have travelled without the green light so something obviously changed whilst he was in transit. Backlash pressure I expect.
Man's a joke. If Roger was fit he'd have volleyed the pandemic into a different universe.It's more divisive nonsense really. Nothing that helps end the pandemic.
What perspective is that?
Please tell me what risk he is to the Australian public.
Please tell me what risk he is to the Australian public.
This episode also shows how ridiculous Australia’s COVID rules are.
On one hand, I’m glad Djokovic didn’t get to beat the rules because he’s rich and famous. On the other, if he doesn’t want to get vaccinated, that’s surely his prerogative.
80-90% of people have been vaccinated now and vaccinating people every 6 months is obviously not sustainable. Therefore, we need to just learn how to live with COVID now.
It's his prerogative to avoid vaccination, and it's Australia's to say that if you're not vaccinated without good reason (i.e. a valid medical reason), then you can't come in.
That's because the science behind vaccination reducing potential transmission, hospitalisation, and death, is remarkably well established.
Unsurprisingly then, governments and scientists around the world are doing their best to encourage their citizens to get vaccinated.
Unfortunately people who post opinions as fact on twitter, Facebook, and even football forums, now seem to be given similar weight to those with actual expertise.
That's a real problem, because the irony is that many of people who shout loudest about the need to get back to normal and "learn to live with Covid", are the ones pushing back against the simplest and best way of bringing it under control - vaccination.
It's his prerogative to avoid vaccination, and it's Australia's to say that if you're not vaccinated without good reason (i.e. a valid medical reason), then you can't come in.
That's because the science behind vaccination reducing potential transmission, hospitalisation, and death, is remarkably well established.
Unsurprisingly then, governments and scientists around the world are doing their best to encourage their citizens to get vaccinated.
Unfortunately people who post opinions as fact on twitter, Facebook, and even football forums, now seem to be given similar weight to those with actual expertise.
That's a real problem, because the irony is that many of people who shout loudest about the need to get back to normal and "learn to live with Covid", are the ones pushing back against the simplest and best way of bringing it under control - vaccination.
- Tested before travel, therefore at lower risk of passing the virus than a vaccinated and untested person.
- Young and healthy, and statistically the chance of him taking up a bed in a hospital is virtually zero.
- More likely to have symptoms and therefore more likely to notice and test, therefore increasing the chances he will isolate.
Sure, you can argue from a moral stand point that he shouldn't be above the rules, and I agree. However, the science is not really on side about this policy whatsoever. Remember, you can still transmit the virus when vaccinated. Same for the covid passport scheme. Makes no scientific sense to do it without allowing negative tests.
This was a political deportation in response to the uproar of him seemingly circumventing the rules behind vaccination initially.
Someone like Djokovic is literally at 0 risk of dying from COVID and has had it recently so has natural immunity to the disease. Does he need to be jabbed?
Personally, I’ve never knowingly had COVID and I’m ‘at risk’ (mildly asthmatic) so it made complete sense to have the vaccine. Some people just don’t actually it so mandating it is just not sensible when you have achieved mass vaccination.
- Tested before travel, therefore at lower risk of passing the virus than a vaccinated and untested person.
- Young and healthy, and statistically the chance of him taking up a bed in a hospital is virtually zero.
- More likely to have symptoms and therefore more likely to notice and test, therefore increasing the chances he will isolate.
Sure, you can argue from a moral stand point that he shouldn't be above the rules, and I agree. However, the science is not really on side about this policy whatsoever. Remember, you can still transmit the virus when vaccinated. Same for the covid passport scheme. Makes no scientific sense to do it without allowing negative tests.
I'm sorry mate, but the science absolutely is on my side. People have a bigger chance of catching it and transmitting it if they aren't vaccinated, even if you're a famous tennis player - that's why the rule is in place.
It's given that if you want to reduce the transmission and effect of a hugely communicable and dangerous disease in a community then vaccination is the proven way to do it. Smallpox, TB, polio, measles, etc. etc.
Individual risk of the impact of illness has nothing to do with it when you're considering what's best for public health. The point of vaccination is that it protects society as well as the individual so anything that encourages it makes good sense.
It may be a low risk of serious illness at an individual level, but a small proportion of a big number is still a large number. Hence almost 18,000 in hospital with Covid this week (about three times as many as last week).
Reading that, He should be excluded entry for being an idiot. In a way thats what they’ve done to him I supposeNo Vaxx does of course not believe in any vaccines, any science and that Covid is caught through 5g
I’m certainly not against vaccination - I’ve had all 3 jabs. I’ve encouraged any friends and family to get their jabs when they were hesitant.
COVID will be like the flu, a new variant every year and the Government will get to a point where it’ll offer annual boosters to targeted groups.
In the UK, we have achieved mass vaccination and 93% of the vulnerable group (over 60s) have been boosted too. So the need for restrictions in this country is pretty low. After all, imposing restrictions and lockdowns isn’t cost free, the increases in suicides and mental health has killed more people in my age band then COVID would have done.
Meanwhile, in Australia, their ‘zero COVID’ policy means they still have lockdowns, restrictions and stay at home orders active. Which is pretty draconian for a country that has a 77% fully vaccinated population.
Anyway, the philosophical point here is that people should be able to make personal choices for themselves. If they don’t want to do something that will benefit them free of charge, let crack on. They’re such a minority that they’re only putting themselves at risk rather than the majority people who have been vaccinated.
Despite the initial fears, Omicron is not as dangerous as forecasters first feared and we’re well below the ‘best case scenario’ of 3,000 COVID deaths per day. Hence the Government have started to relax a lot of the isolation periods and restrictions put in place on testing and so on. Even the SNP followed suit today.
How is this a big news story?
Man who hits ball for living not met entry requirements for country.
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