Friday 7 January 2022

Australia Make Right Call On Djokovic

I don't know very much about the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and what i do know isn't very flattering but credit where its due and he is due credit for his action over tennis player Novak Djokovic, hilariously newly nicknamed as 'Novaxx' Djokovic.
Whatever his exemption from the Covid-19 vaccine was, the Australian's were not buying it and declared that the tennis player: 'had failed to provide appropriate evidence to support his exemption from a requirement to be double vaccinated against Covid' and swiftly took his to a quarantine hotel and cancelled his visa.
Although the basis of the medical exemption has not been released, the federal Government have said that a recent Covid infection was not an acceptable reason not to be fully vaccinated which seems to explain why he thought he would be exempt as Djokovic had Covid earlier in 2021.
The rules for entry to Australia are simple enough even for him, it states that: 'People must be fully vaccinated, as defined by Atagi, to gain quarantine-free entry into Australia', he wasn't double vaccinated so out he goes, it really isn't that difficult.
'There should be no special rules for Novak Djokovic at all. None whatsoever' Morrison had said and Djokovic was in with the anti-vax nutters when he said that he was opposed to vaccination and wouldn’t want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine.
The president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, bizarrely said that the whole of Serbia was with him and they were everything they could to see to end the tennis players harassment and Djokovic’s father went even further and said that his son was being persecuted and that the Australian government was stomping on Serbia and the Serbian people. The apple didn't fall far from that tree obviously!
Rafael Nadal summed it up well when he said that Djokovic had known the requirements for months and if he had wanted, he could be playing in Australia without a problem and Andy Murray also showed little sympathy by saying: 'We were told they were the rules. If you want to play, you have to be vaccinated'.
Patience is finally running out with those who are willfully unvaccinated, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, said just the other day that he planned to 'piss off' unvaccinated citizens and as the next Grand Slam is the French Open, Djokovic will hopefully be swapping kicking his heels in a Melbourne Hotel room for kicking them in a Parisian one instead unless he rolls his sleeve up soon.

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