Novak Djokovic Tells Reporters to Back Off on Asking about Vaccination Status: “It’s a Private Matter”
Footballers haven’t been the only sportspeople to be barraged by invasive questions about their Covid vaccination status. Tennis players have received the same treatment, but Novak Djokovic is standing his ground, saying reporters are “taking the liberty” to ask whether he has been jabbed and “judg[ing] a person” for not giving the ‘correct’ answer. RT has the story.
World number one Djokovic has repeatedly expressed his reservations about players being pressured to take a Covid jab, and the reigning Australian Open champion insists his decision is a “private matter” amid a string of controversies surrounding the likes of NBA star Kyrie Irving, who has been left out by the Brooklyn Nets because he is not vaccinated.
Djokovic rival Stefanos Tsitsipas found himself at the center of a political row after he made a wide range of remarks about Covid and vaccines, and the Greek – whose own Government seemed to distance themselves from views which appeared to include a suggestion that spreading the virus could have positive effects – now appears to be willing to be vaccinated.
Russian contender Andrey Rublev has become the latest player to drop their apparent reluctance because of the logistical issues not being vaccinated could cause, but Djokovic is yet to openly say he has had the treatment.
“Things being as they are, I still don’t know if I will go to Melbourne,” Djokovic told Blic, speaking ahead of a first Grand Slam of the year in January which is likely to take place under tight restrictions.
“I will not reveal my status, whether I have been vaccinated or not – it is a private matter and an inappropriate inquiry.
“People go too far these days in taking the liberty to ask questions and judge a person.
“Whatever you say – ‘yes, no, maybe, I am thinking about it’ – they will take advantage.”
Daniel Andrews, the Premier of the state of Victoria, has reiterated how difficult it could be for unvaccinated stars to travel to the country, explaining that they may not be allowed in.
“I don’t think an unvaccinated tennis player is going to get a visa to come into this country,” predicted the politician.
“If they did get a visa, they’d probably have to quarantine for a couple of weeks when no other players will have to.
“I don’t think any other tennis player or golfer or Formula One driver will even get a visa to get here.
“Professional sport is part of that authorised worker list and they have to be double-dose vaccinated.”
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IT IS NOT A TREATMENT! These people don’t even know the definitions of basic words like “vaccine” or “treatment” and they have the balls to tells us that we’re crazy conspiracy theorists.
Actually treatment, or rather pre-treatment is a better description than vaccine and one that I, unsullied byt it, am happy to use.
A treatment is given as a response to a pre-existing condition. It is not given in order to prevent a condition.
Precisely. “The handling of…….a thing” – if there is no “thing”, there can be no thing to apply the “handling”. My cod logic , but it works for me.
I think it would probably fit the definition of prophylactic. But it should still have been tested properly and people should have to give actual informed consent of course.
I was listening with disgust to a woman on GB News championing euthanasia. She continuously described the life-ending drug that the patient is made to take themselves as a “medicine”.
There’s no coincidence that they’re trying to loosen laws around killing people at a time when everything the government/pharma/media push ends in suffering and death.
well you may feel that way but anything taken to help with an existing condition with pain and suffering is definitely a treatment
don’t rush to judge a situation life hasn’t tested you with -either personally or professionally
Absolutely good for him. It is no ones business.
Hopefully the reticence of these stars will make people question the narrative at least.
Which of course is what the authorities are terrified about.
I wonder what the quarantine arrangements are for those arriving from red list countries for COP 26 in 10 days are…?
They don’t need to show vaccine passports and Glasgow citizens are being encouraged to allow attendees to temporarily live in their homes, so I don’t expect any stringent quarantine rules for the elite.
“If they did get a visa, they’d probably have to quarantine for a couple of weeks when no other players will have to.”
Andrews is a testament to the fact that fuckwits rule the world.
Best player ever and a stand up person to match.
Novak, I salute you.
Djokovic had Covid-19 in 2020. He’d be a fool to have the jabs.
I wonder if Rublev already had his – he’s been in very poor form over the past 3 weeks in losing against lesser opponents after winning the first set..
I believe Zverev and Medvedev have also had covid and are not keen on revealing their status, and with Tsitsipas and Djokovic they make up the top 4 men. Really hope they stand their ground. I think Novak is a stubborn sort.
He’s been successful enough not to have to risk his health. He’s got every chance of winning the French Open to take the overall lead in majors won – there’s no point in him taking the jabs as he already has natural immunity – why gamble on side effects in the short term? And who knows what the long term results will be?
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A tennis player with guts?
Thought they were only found in rackets these days.
This guy rocks! The whole vaccine status thing is out of hand and pushback from big stars is critical.
Man’s a hero. Been speaking out from the start.
He is absolutely right to say that this is a private matter. I hope he stands firm because a lot of youngsters look up to their sporting idols.
This could get interesting:
‘Of most concern is the observation that the ONS data may significantly underestimate the total population of unvaccinated people. This means that, even when in future the ONS releases the age-categorized mortality data, it is likely that in many age categories the mortality rate for the unvaccinated will be overestimated (since the ‘denominator’ will be lower than it should be). This also means that the mortality rates presented in Table 1 are likely to be exaggerating the unvaccinated mortality rate (both for UMR and ASMR figures).’ (Emphasis original)
The paper can be downloaded here:
http://probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2021/10/comparing-all-cause-mortality-rate-by.html?m=1
Thanks for posting that. It is very interesting. The supposed raw positive efficacy against death of the experimental vaccines based on PHE data just looks wrong to me when there is such a high negative efficacy against testing positive in all the age groups which covid materially affects in terms of mortality. The obvious confounders in the death figures seemed to me that the unvaccinated population included a disproportionate number of terminally ill people who had not been vaccinated which skews the figures to show efficacy against death where there is none. But it also crossed my mind that it might be an under-estimate of the unvaccinated proportion. The ONS data in table 5 of this publication has an age standardised mortality (ASM) for non-covid death of 23.7 per 100,000 in the unvaccinnated and 14.6 per 100,000 in the double vaccinated for the latest week for which data is available, week 26. Given that ASM attempts to remove the affects of differences in age distribution between the vaccinated and unvaccinated, this is saying something quite important, that an average unvaccinated person is much more likely to die of any cause than an average vaccinated person, regardless of any affect of… Read more »
Good man.
I spent a few minutes today to try and find the premier league player stats, but never suceeded. I wanted to compare some of the speed stats against last season/earlier this season. Thought it might be diverting …
Good for him. If more people in the public eye refused to be bullied rather than toeing the line it will help.
Novak should organize a tournamemt at the same time the Aussie Open is played.
That’s also what taught the Wimbledon toffs a lesson.
The title won there that year would be tainted forever and meaningless in the history books.
All professional sportspeople should boycott Victoria at least and preferably Australia completely. Their flagship sports events will be rather pointless without the best players in them.
Packer did it to the establishment in 77, for other reasons, but it would be good if high profile players simply said no. Australia is far enough away and isolated enough for people to not need another reason not to go.
https://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2021/10/22/elite-athlete-explains-vaccine-injury-and-doctors_1920_-ignorance.aspx
Steam in before it disappears:
https://youtu.be/4IeVy7jQoz0
A little reminder that medical history was considered private by EVERYONE until 2020.
It is indeed a private matter. Fuck off and leave the man alone. More to the point, fuck off and leave the rest of us alone too.
How anyone with the ability to reason is still falling for this bollocks after nearly two bloody years is beyond me:
https://youtu.be/MdSJOcjC0Do
I wish more of these athletes would discuss the reasons they have not been vaccinated. These are good and powerful reasons, which apparently some people don’t even know. Talking about these reasons would be a public service and a way to get around the “gatekeepers of the news” who block these reasons from being publicized.
Has anyone been back on the Government’s “consultation” on the Social Credit system?
Very tellingly, they’ve modified it to include mandates for flu injections now. They’ve also expanded the setting for it being mandated to healthcare as well as social care.
So within the short period this “consultation” has existed, the scope of the vaxport has already broadened without discussion or debate.
ps, the survey has just closed just as I had started clicking through it. No doubt there were many other additions in there that I didn’t get a chance to see…
Ain’t no Viet Cong ever called me unvaccinated….
History doesn’t repeat but it sure does rhyme.
Well, Australians, you’re going to have a pretty miserable next few years when sports stars (of any kind) realise how much power they wield against your lunatic demands.
Sit in your stadia with only second-rate sportsmen and women to watch. You will deserve no better if you allow your disgusting politicians to make such diktats.
Well, it looks like Novak is off Prime Minister, Scott Morrison’s, Christmas/New Year list for his outrageous heresy and disobedience to the Covid ‘Vaccine’ tyranny. Australia’s ‘Liberal’ PM has instructed his Immigration Minister, Alex Hawke, to announce, three days ago, that anyone, including international athletes, wanting to come to Australia will have to be double-jabbed before being granted a visa. So, no one who hasn’t taken the needle, twice, can even get into the country, even if they were to do two weeks quarantine, and submit to endless PCR tests, once here. Mind you, Novak still wouldn’t have been allowed to play in Melbourne because the evil gnome, Dan Andrews, masqueraing as the state premier of Victoria, has decreed that all sportspeople must be double-jabbed if they are to ply their trade in his state. All the other top men’s ‘vaccine’ resistants appear to have now folded, so that leaves Novak out in the cold for the Australian Open in January 2022. I sure hope he resists the urge but he must be sorely tempted – he loves Melbourne’s Rod Laver arena, where he has won the Oz OPen a record nine times, including the last three tournaments and, on twenty grand slam titles, is… Read more »
The next time a reporter asks for vax status, they should insist the reporter detail their most recent blood tests, urinalysis and prostate/obstetrician-gynecologist examinations.