“Novax Deportovic” is what one user tweeted on January 5. Well, ten days later, being deported from Australia is what happens to tennis star Novak Djokovic, who has yet to win the Covid-19 vaccine. On Sunday, the Australian federal court upheld the cancellation of Djokovic’s visa, according to Siladitya Ray, writing for Forbes. realm. This total saga has resolved the many upheavals related to exempting a user from a legal responsibility for vaccination against Covid-19 just because they had already tested positive for Covid-19.
Djokovic’s scenario deserved to have been an open and closed affair of Australia at first. The Australian Open required players to be vaccinated before participating in the 2022 edition of the Grand Slam tournament held annually in Melbourne, Australia. This was consistent with what was happening in the rest of Australia. The country had used fairly competitive Covid-19 precautions to restrict the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) before the arrival of vaccines. Such precautions have left many Australian citizens stranded overseas. for more than a year. Therefore, Tennis Australia deserves to have foreseen that Australians would not be too satisfied if a tennis star could also circumvent the regulations they implemented for virtually everyone. This tweet from editor Titus O’Reily sums up what many Australians would have possibly felt:
Still, Tennis Australia granted Djokovic a vaccination waiver, leaving him with the Australian Open. It sounded a bit like a “Djoke” to everyone else who followed the rules:
What was Djokovic’s exemption? Well, apparently, it was a variant of the “natural immunity” argument. Djokovic said he tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in December and therefore did not want to get vaccinated. However, as Ray reported for Forbes, there were a number of inconsistencies and doubts about his account of the events that brought him to Australia. For example, a day after allegedly testing positive for Covid-19, Djokovic gave the impression of being maskless on December 17 with young tennis players at an event in Serbia. This led other people to ask whether Djokovic was misleading about his positive check and visa application or whether he was too irresponsible in exposing himself to others or both. TV personality Piers Morgan described Djokovic’s candidacy as grim:
And then there it is:
Djokovic’s total saga has shown how complicated it is to equate a positive check for SARS-CoV-2 with vaccination. Testing positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus is like going to an appointment. The end results of any appointment can be so variable, ranging from “what was your call again?”to “What else do you need for breakfast” and “How do you need our child’s call to remain?”Similarly, Covid-19 symptoms and outcomes can vary widely, as can the resulting immune coverage. It’s not clear what kind of immune coverage you can get or how long it can last. In fact, it may not even expand immune coverage. For example, as I covered in the past for Forbes, one study showed that more than one-third of those who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 did not end up producing detectable antibodies against the virus.
As noted in Djokovic’s case, it can be tricky to determine a person’s positive Covid-19 test. Of course, you can speak from one person. At the same time, you can write the word “suction cup” on your forehead in indelible ink. There is no verifiable database of singles for positive Covid-19 tests worldwide, and surprise, surprise, other people can do anything called a lie. And in this case, lying doesn’t mean what you can do on a couch.
Renata Voracova of the Czech Republic has been deported from Australia after being granted the same vaccination exemption as Tennis Australia’s Djokovic for the first time. (Photo by Christopher Lee/Getty Images for LTA)
In addition, the Greek alphabet of the other variants further complicates the assessment of a positive check and herbal immunity. Like rushing fraternities and sororities, being exposed to one edition may not be the same as being exposed to another. For example, what I cover, would you have opposed the Omicron variant if your previous infection was by the Alpha variant opposed to the Alpha beta variant opposed to the Epsilon variant opposite to the Delta variant?Has anyone checked what variant you might have had before?In the United States, less than 3% of all control samples end up being sequenced for virus editing.
In contrast, vaccination provides much more standardized exposure to the Covid-19 coronavirus spike protein. In addition, vaccine doses in rapid periods continuously disclose their immune formula to the spike protein. This can’t happen “naturally” unless you intentionally have to be inflamed times and time those infections. “Oh, it’s been 3 weeks since my last infection, honey. It’s time to reveal myself again,” possibly wouldn’t play well with your partner.
Of course, covid-19 vaccines are not like condoms with concrete frames. They do not offer one hundred percent protection. Therefore, more precautions will be mandatory at the Australian Open. However, requiring vaccination to enter can help keep everyone’s Covid-19 threat much more consistent. This could allow an event like the Australian Open to have a number of rules and precautions, which safe precautions for some but not others:
It also allows for greater flexibility with precautions, which ask everyone to adhere to stricter precautions designed for the unvaccinated.
Tennis Australia may have simply moved away from this total Djokovic saga by setting strict vaccination requirements and meeting them. Djokovic may have avoided deportation by getting vaccinated against Covid-19:
But as the following tweet says, he is “the first player to be knocked out of a Grand Slam tournament after missing just two shots”:
And this double fault led to this tweet:
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