He said he started feeling big pains on his entire body, which does sound odd, but honestly I don't know if he's speaking truth. Do you think he just wanted an excuse not to play, or what was his reasoning to pretend to be vaccine injured?
He certainly is a liar, besides a very prominent vaccination denier.
His medical exemption is based on a positive PCR test from Dec 16. The deadline for such an exemption was Dec 10, so legally too late. But now the best. On the very same Dec 16 he had a public appearance in Serbia, and then Dec 17 another. Where he should have been in quarantine already.
Why if there are non-zero risks for his career (looking at Jeremy Chardy) and he already has natural imunity? Why would be the vaccine deemed superior? Last data for Australia is 65k new cases in a day? For a highly vaccinated country? Numbers don’t really add up. Australia’s government has both draconian and innefective measures, which is quite a feat.
Btw. I’m vaccinated and always promote it to people who didn’t catch it yet. But if you already had it? It’s not as clear, and we have number of studies to show it.
Although Djokovic is my countrymen I’m not pissed about him mission Australian Open (not a tennis fan). I’m pissed at all the governments around the world who make illogical rules just for the optics that they’re doing something. Lke closing borders when both countries have similar infection levels, or not recognizing vaccines if they are from other country you have political issues with. Or demanding vaccination even if there was prior infection and antibodies still present.
Or, like Australia, using imigration rules designed for zero-covid scenario in situation when they have internal 65k new cases in a day.
