Posted on 01/19/2022 5:30:26 AM PST by Kaslin
PARIS -- Should people be denied the right to earn a living because their job suddenly requires them to inject a substance into their body that is still technically in clinical trials and whose known efficiency and impact is literally evolving in real time?
When faced with that question, most developed countries came down on the side of politics rather than pure science - at least until a court rules otherwise, as was recently the case with the U.S Supreme Court and Joe Biden's vaccine mandates for private employers.
In other words, the political impetus to be seen to be doing something in the immediate term for their own professional survival has outweighed a scientific adherence to evolving jab data. Instead of adapting their political strategy to it, they forge ahead with the multiplication of restrictions and their efforts to entrenchment them in law and policy. This mindset and restrictions have created widespread limitations on work and travel for those not in compliance with the COVID guidelines.
In some cases, travel and work converge. Such is the case for Novak Djokovic, the number one men's tennis champion and recent deportee from Australia. He arrived in Melbourne on January 5 to play in the Australian Open and was granted a visa pre-entry based on a previous positive COVID test as proof of natural immunity. But upon arrival, his visa was canceled by authorities because he was unvaccinated. Australia requires two shots for entry. After spending a few days in a hotel on lockdown, as a guest of Her Majesty, and after winning judicial review of the cancellation on a technicality, his reinstated visa was canceled a second time -- this time by the godlike Aussie minister of immigration himself.
"Despite my acceptance above that Mr. Djokovic's recent infection with COVID-19 means that he is at a negligible risk of infection and therefore presents a negligible risk to those around him, I am concerned that his presence in Australia, given his well-known stance on vaccination, creates a risk of strengthening the anti-vaccination sentiment of a minority of the Australian community," said Minister Alex Hawke in a court filing.
Hawke straight-up admits with this statement that the decision was politically charged. The minister acknowledges the value of Djokovic's naturally acquired immunity yet dismisses it entirely as though only the jab counts - a position completely disconnected from science. (Likewise, here in France, a COVID infection now has the administrative value of a booster shot, but only if the initial two jabs that clearly failed to protect you from COVID were taken first.)
Just like many others around the world who don't have the tennis champ's wealth and who have made a decision to not take the jab due to their personal health and medical circumstances, Djokovic now faces serious impediments in continuing to earn his livelihood. Not only is he barred from entering Australia for three years, due to the deportation order, but he'll also have trouble playing in tournaments in other countries similar jab requirements. Millions of workers worldwide who lack his notoriety are suffering silently under similar government persecution that blocks them from work or travel. But unlike many of them, Djokovic has the resources to continue to fight for his basic human rights should he choose to do so - and he really should.
"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights grants individuals freedoms such as the freedom to work," Paris-based international human rights and criminal lawyer, William Julie, told me. "We have protections that also appear in other texts, such as the international covenant on civil and political rights. Would Djokovic possibly have recourse beyond the ones he no longer has in Australia? Could he seize a UN working group, for example, the human rights committee, which is responsible within the UN for ensuring compliance with the provisions of the international civil and political pact? It seems to me that the mechanism is possible. Australia is a signatory to the pact in question and I think there would be a possibility of considering the argument to have an arbitration."
Julie added that such a case could set a precedent and that "it does not seem that there has been international arbitration on these questions, which are very serious for human rights."
It's been a long time since someone took up this fight to push back on worldwide government overreach that leverages fear to place politics and optics above science and rights -- and there's no one better positioned for it than Djokovic.
If I were him I’d give them all the middle finger and tell them I don’t need them, and disappear forever to enjoy my wealth.
“Should people be denied the right to earn a living because their job suddenly requires them to inject a substance into their body”
Revelation 13:17
“and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.”
If you cannot work without the getting the vaccine, you cannot buy products.
There are forerunners of the Antichrist in history (1 John 2:18). Could the vaccine be like a forerunner to condition humans to except the mark of the beast when it arrives?
“I am concerned that his presence in Australia, given his well-known stance on vaccination, creates a risk of strengthening the anti-vaccination sentiment of a minority of the Australian community”
You moron.
The fact you all made a big deal of this drew attention to his “status” and “stance”.
THAT itself will “strengthen” the sentiment.
Never mind how asinine it all is.
(”Accept” - grammar NAZI peeve)
Good quote. Will have to recall that. Specifically, the “buy or sell” as we all know about the mark of the Beast.
I just saw a meme... Djokovic first athlete to be thrown out of a meet for NOT taking drugs.
How ironic that shortly after the guy gets thrown out of Australia over his refusal to obey Aussie Covid restrictions, the UK is abandoning all Covid restrictions.
England is breaking out of prison while Australia is rushing back to its prison colony roots.
Australians don’t even realize how stupid they now appear.
Now this admission is extremely useful. It demonstrates not just that there is no health safety reason to restrict the natural immune from travel, it further demonstrates that authorities wish the public to be misinformed because they don't trust what conclusions the public would make if informed.
Some singer back in the '60s thought about taking his problem to the United Nations before concluding that there ain't no cure for the summertime blues. The UN would be even less effective against authoritarian governments.
I’m not sure it was the best decision to bar him from competing in the Australian Closed tennis tournament.
Imagine an athlete being barred from competition for NOT taking drugs.
Strange world we live in these days.
RE: Novak Djokovic Could Set a Precedent for COVID Jab Choice By Seizing International Law
Or every country will ban him from playing unless he takes the jab. If this happens even in he USA, his career is effectively over.
So Djokovic want to play in a city that appears not to give a flying crap of over the 10,000 or so cases they currently have. He must be a terrible, terrible risk….playing on 80’ x 30’ court, average distance of 40’ from his opponent and 50’ from the crowd. Wonder if they will have to wear masks when playing?
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