And there's a lot of anger about that in Australia in general, and especially in Victoria, where the Open is held. We have been forced to live with vaccine mandates inflicted on us by the state government in order to work, but this foreign superstar has been allowed to get around that. A lot of people here on Freerepublic seem to think this is about people being afraid of Djokovic. It really isn't, for the most part. People are bloody angry at the double standard they've seen from the state government in giving him an exception to play. The federal government has been drawn into the mess despite not giving him an exemption and actually trying to enforce the border laws that the states insisted on (the states having most of the power concerning public health under Australia's constitution).
RE: but it’s a bit selfish from him to arrive here as the only player unvaccinated.
I Don’t get this logic. If the purpose is to prevent transmission of Covid, then being vaxxed double or triple does not seem to confer any advantage.
In Australia, the Governor General, the Treasurer, and former PM Malcolm Turnbull were all fully vaxxed and boosted. They all still got infected and have to quarantine.
What’s to guarantee that a fully vaxxed player won’t similarly be infected or transmit the virus?
The other players are just mad that they don’t have any balls and Djokovic does.
How do we know he was given special treatment?
Got to admit.....although I can’t stand the guy.....I can now stand him...a little bit anyways for this. Disappointed Rafa went woke the vaccine too.
Its not fair he can find a way to remain unvaccinated while others could not
Adults are now children. Grow the eff up. Its torally fair for him to use whatever rules others have laid out and still be able to avoid doing something ge doesn’t want to do.
The otgers were not smart enough to find ways to avoid it, and if they didnt have the same rules where they were, thet decided it was more important to keep playing tennis than walk away and not be vaxxed.
Grow the g-d eff up.
Sousa is afraid of his own fears..that he’s put his life on the line with an experimental gene therapy that may kill him…Djokovic studied the science, took alternate treatments and is 100% healthy. I feel bad for Sousa but he must live with his own choices.
Fuscovics can go fusc himself.
People become embarrassed, then angry when they find out the other guy got a better deal. THEY are the ones who sold out easily, now they are mad because there is someone with cojones who will stand on principle.
Who cares? Baseline robots game now. 130 serves. 5hr. baseline robots. Boring and monotonous. Boring.
The net artistry dead. The game dead.
Since the vaccines do not stop the stop the spread of the virus, there is no valid reason for any government to require their use. I don’t know if vaccine mandates are due to bribery, stupidity, or just pure fascism.
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Many players – not my case – didn’t want to get vaccinated and were forced to do it to be able to play tournaments
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Dance, monkeys, dance
Forced to..yeah..
Governments are turning people against people.