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Novak Djokovic 'Refused Entry to Australia' After National Rage Over Vaccine Exemption
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The Daily Beast
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BREAKING: World No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic has reportedly been refused entry to Australia following a national outpouring of rage over his vaccine mandate exemption. It’s unclear what Djokovic can now do to enter Australia
Novak Djokovic ‘Refused Entry to Australia’ After National Rage Over Vaccine Exemption
The tennis world’s No. 1 player and notorious anti-vaxxer was permitted to avoid the Australian Open’s mandate—and furious Australians are demanding to know why.
thedailybeast.com
8:17 AM · Jan 5, 2022
The Daily Beast
@thedailybeast
BREAKING: World No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic has reportedly been refused entry to Australia following a national outpouring of rage over his vaccine mandate exemption. It’s unclear what Djokovic can now do to enter Australia
Novak Djokovic ‘Refused Entry to Australia’ After National Rage Over Vaccine Exemption
The tennis world’s No. 1 player and notorious anti-vaxxer was permitted to avoid the Australian Open’s mandate—and furious Australians are demanding to know why.
thedailybeast.com
8:17 AM · Jan 5, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/novak-djokovics-unexplained-vaccine-exemption-provokes-rage-in-australia
Novak Djokovic has reportedly been refused entry to Australia following a national outpouring of rage over his vaccine mandate exemption.
The world No. 1 tennis player arrived in Melbourne on Wednesday after securing a medical exemption to the Australian Open’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate—a decision that infuriated a nation where 90 percent of adults have been vaccinated yet some still can’t travel internationally or from state to state.
But, according to The Times of London, the star has been stopped at border control over a bizarre visa mix-up. According to the report, a member of Djokovic’s team requested a type of visa that doesn’t apply to people who have been granted a medical exemption from the COVID vaccines.
The federal government has reportedly asked for help in amending the visa—but the state government has refused. “The federal government has asked if we will support Novak Djokovic’s visa application to enter Australia,” Jaala Pulford, the Victorian sports minister, wrote on Twitter.
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Really, you can't think of ANYTHING this jackass can do to be admitted?
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"Djokovic applied for a medical exemption which was granted following a rigorous review process involving two separate independent panels of medical experts.
"One of those was the Independent Medical Exemption Review Panel appointed by the Victorian Department of Health. They assessed all applications to see if they met the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation guidelines."
Djokovic has not revealed his vaccination status, but he had expressed doubt about whether he could play in the 2022 Australian Open because of the requirements."
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10022833-novak-djokovic-receives-covid-19-vaccine-medical-exemption-from-australian-open
I told my friends who follow tennis that there was going to be some HUGE blow back for him being given a non-vaxx medical exemption, especially since he has expressed doubt/fear about vaccines/certain kinds of anykind in the past that he would not put into his body. Now, he does have horrible allergies to Gluten which is why he became a Vegan years ago because Gluten was making him sick physically, but Gluten allergies won't cut it as to why he was given a non-vaxx medical exemption to enter Australia, especially since Oz has again gone into extremely tight lock-down mode, unless you can show that you've been 2 times vaxxed and boosted or will soon get your booster shot.
ALL of the rest of us have had to suffer from living through Covid and now Omicron, and Nole felt that since he had covid, his body building up antibodies associated with Covid would work for him. Nole, those anti-bodies you built up lessen over 6 months, so no you don't get a medical exemption unless you REALLY had an underlying medical problem preventing you from taking the vaccine that many of us have taken and been boosted to boot.
I have a friend who has scarred lungs/& is in her mid-60's, and her doctor strongly advised her to NOT get vaccinated. She also had heart surgery as a teen who was born with a hole in her heart, so she's been in DEEP & socially distancing since the covid vaccine was rolled out.
Nole literally thought he could waltz into Aussie Land sans vaccine shots and with a sketchy medical exemption, while the whole country was suffering from and living through Covid. The Aussie citizens I saw interviewed on Sky News television were BOILING hot over him getting a medical non-vaxx exemption.
I'm a Nole fan, but really Nole
"One of those was the Independent Medical Exemption Review Panel appointed by the Victorian Department of Health. They assessed all applications to see if they met the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation guidelines."
Djokovic has not revealed his vaccination status, but he had expressed doubt about whether he could play in the 2022 Australian Open because of the requirements."
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10022833-novak-djokovic-receives-covid-19-vaccine-medical-exemption-from-australian-open
I told my friends who follow tennis that there was going to be some HUGE blow back for him being given a non-vaxx medical exemption, especially since he has expressed doubt/fear about vaccines/certain kinds of anykind in the past that he would not put into his body. Now, he does have horrible allergies to Gluten which is why he became a Vegan years ago because Gluten was making him sick physically, but Gluten allergies won't cut it as to why he was given a non-vaxx medical exemption to enter Australia, especially since Oz has again gone into extremely tight lock-down mode, unless you can show that you've been 2 times vaxxed and boosted or will soon get your booster shot.
ALL of the rest of us have had to suffer from living through Covid and now Omicron, and Nole felt that since he had covid, his body building up antibodies associated with Covid would work for him. Nole, those anti-bodies you built up lessen over 6 months, so no you don't get a medical exemption unless you REALLY had an underlying medical problem preventing you from taking the vaccine that many of us have taken and been boosted to boot.
I have a friend who has scarred lungs/& is in her mid-60's, and her doctor strongly advised her to NOT get vaccinated. She also had heart surgery as a teen who was born with a hole in her heart, so she's been in DEEP & socially distancing since the covid vaccine was rolled out.
Nole literally thought he could waltz into Aussie Land sans vaccine shots and with a sketchy medical exemption, while the whole country was suffering from and living through Covid. The Aussie citizens I saw interviewed on Sky News television were BOILING hot over him getting a medical non-vaxx exemption.
I'm a Nole fan, but really Nole
HE will have a chance to go to Rolland Garros to go for 21 because as of now, the tournaments rule organizers have different rules for vaccination, so he might be able to win 21 in France vaxx-free. Rafa is back but will his foot hold up, even on his favorite clay?
Last year at the US Open in NY, the players didn't have to be vaxxed--But the officials, ball kids, fans who attended the 2020 US Open, food servers/sellers, people who worked there HAD to show proof that they all were double-vaxxed. Nole was DQ'd early on because he hit a lines person in the throat with a tennis ball out of frustration with his play. He wasn't angry at her. Anyway, he was gone after that action. He didn't do it on purpose but .... She was wearing a BLM button, and many a Serbian Nole fan on twitter was calling her a fascist, who got him knocked out of the US Open on purpose.
