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Tennis champion Novak Djokovic, who last weekend won his fourth straight title at Wimbledon, said he has no plans to get vaccinated in order to bypass restrictions to enter the U.S. for the U.S. Open in August.
Tennis champion Novak Djokovic, who last weekend won his fourth straight title at Wimbledon, said he has no plans to get vaccinated in order to bypass restrictions to enter the U.S. for the U.S. Open in August.
“I’m not vaccinated and I’m not planning to get vaccinated,” Djokovic said at the Wimbledon Championship, “so the only good news I can have is them removing the mandate green vaccine card — or whatever you call it to enter the United States — or exemption.”
Djokovic said he doesn’t think an exemption is “realistically possible.” It’s just a matter of whether or not the U.S. removes the requirement in time for him to attend the tournament, he said.
U.S. COVID-19 vaccination requirements for foreigners bar Djokovic’s entry into the country where he would normally compete at the US Open.
Serbia’s Djokovic, 35, has been dominant at Wimbledon for the past couple of years, according to Tennis World USA. He is regarded by some as the world’s greatest tennis player ever, according to CNN and ESPN.
During a recent episode of The Hill’s “Rising,” political commentator Kim Iversen and co-hosts Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave criticized the U.S. policy.
“The rationale originally was ‘we want people to be vaccinated so that they’re less likely to spread the disease because we’re trying to manage to keep the disease under control,’” Soave said. “But the disease is not coming into this country from other [places]. It’s already here.”
Soave said the idea that the vaccinated are significantly less likely to transmit the virus is no longer true — “if it was ever true,” he added. So it’s really just for the vaccinated person’s own health.
“Djokovic is very physically fit,” Soave said. “He’s not in any high-risk category it should be his choice anyway.”
Gray claimed U.S. government officials can waive the requirement for specific reasons, including if the individual is coming from a remote country where it’s “almost impossible to get the vaccine — such as Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Cote D’ivoire, Niger, Gigeria, Senegal, Sambia, Yemen, etc.”
“The fact that there’s this long list of places where this doesn’t apply suggests that it’s not a public health issue at all,” Gray added.
Moreover, Iversen pointed out that Europe has dropped COVID-19 vaccination mandates for foreigners.
“If you’re an unvaccinated American you can travel to Europe, but if you’re an unvaccinated European you cannot travel to the United States,” Iversen said.
When interviewed by BBC News, Djokovic said, “The principles of decision-making on my body are more important than anything else.”
Iversen, a self-proclaimed tennis fanatic, said that by banning Djokovic’s entry, the U.S. would deny one of the best tennis players the opportunity to compete.
“By stats, Novak Djokovic beats out even Federer and Nadal,” Iversen said. “He has the best overall stats.”
Leaving the politics out, she said, the science of banning individuals unvaccinated against COVID-19 doesn’t make sense.
“It’s a big shame,” she said. “If you’re another tennis player, do you really want to play in that Open when you know that you’re not going to be able to ever compete against the greatest?”
“That would be my question,” Iversen said.
Soave said he thought the maintenance of the vaccination requirements for entering the U.S. was not due so much to Big Pharma’s influence on the government but because once policies get introduced, it’s hard to “unintroduce” them.
He pointed to the post-911 travel restrictions that have stayed in place and “gotten more obnoxious over time.”
Watch The Hill segment here:
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At some point they’ll have to accept him as there will be no more capable of playing.
It would seem to be justice if it happened. Too few have too much power. It’s got to end.
If you take the jab now after what is known at this point,
you deserve to die a miserable death.
And you will. And fuck you, you had every opportunity to say “NO!”
God bless the likes of men like Joko.
BTW, He’s a Serb. He saw what happens when the NeoCons decide your country
and it’s people need to die for The Deep State.
BTW … I am a Serb-American (50%) … and there is an innate spirit in our fiber that recognizes bullshit exceedingly well and many of us do not bow down to it, no matter the cost.
As I have observed … there is no more loyal/better friend OR more bitter enemy (hopefully justified) than those that have Serb blood coursing through their veins.
Then you should proudly use the handle “Serbnonymous.”
He should sneak in across the Rio Grande.
They look the other way down there.
Sorry, Novak. No one cares about a successful white male. Britney Griner and Megan Rapino are far more important.
Aren’t they both male too? Britney certainly is. She has an Adam’s Apple bigger than 90% of men.
Good for him. He has fuck you money.
“Govt officials CAN waive requirements”.
Ahhh, yeah, they have for 3 million invaders at the southern border.
This govt is pathetically funny.
“Soave said he thought the maintenance of the vaccination requirements for entering the U.S. was not due so much to Big Pharma’s influence on the government but because once policies get introduced, it’s hard to “unintroduce” them.”
Yup. Sure. You betcha.
I haven’t flown on a jet since Feb. of 2020, when the Rona was just ramping up, and restrictions, lockdowns, and mandates had not even taken effect yet.
Still, I had to remove my shoes before going through security.
That just reinforces the point in quotes above.
All this, because one day after 9/11, some moron packed some explosives in his shoes before boarding a plane, and now every airline passenger has to do this routine so the TSA can stay employed.
That includes Granny, your 4 year old grandson, and even military vets with prosthetics probably.
-Your government (in)efficiency, once in place, is hard to remove after recognizing a policy or rule or regulation as a hindrance.
“But, they’re keeping us safe, by keeping the terrorist bombers off all our jets” Karen whines.
Further, now that most pilots have been jabbed, frequent flyers need to worry more about the Cap’n & his Wingman’s heart seizing up while cruising at 30 thousand in flyover country, than they do about a
shoe bomber getting past the Cops-a-Feel los federales in the nation’s airports.
Dammit, man. I can’t drive to St. Kitts if it comes time to bug out of this shithole.
Gonna have to hitch a ride from Travolta, Branson, or one of them other Davos participants
when they command “Wheels Up” in short order with their private Gulfstream III’s.
Unfortunately, I don’t have fuck you money, like Cliffy says the DJoker has.
Sigh……
Lord protect Novak Djokovic a true and great champion of Liberty.
May he continue to win major championship titles and regular tournament play. Best ever.
Let the authorities in New York and the tennis world eat, then choke on a bag of dicks for their disgusting, discriminatory and putrid prejudicial position concerning the injection. May they burn in Hell for this adherence to the demonic Beast System programme.
Climate change causing ‘cramps’ now: