Novak Djokovic will not be allowed to play in the U.S. Open in August due to his declining the COVID-19 vaccine. MailOnline has more.
The U.S. Open organisers have said they would respect the Government’s rules on non-citizens being fully vaccinated in order to enter the country, ruling out Djokovic.
Djokovic’s anti-vaccine stance has been well-documented. In January 2022, he was deported from Australia prior to the Open in Melbourne over his refusal to get vaccinated.
Following the drama Down Under, Djokovic, 35, said that he would not get the jab just to compete in tournaments.
The former world number one told the BBC in February that he had vaccines as a child and that he was not “against vaccinations”. He added: “I’ve always supported the freedom to choose what you put in your body.”
Djokovic was hopeful of competing in Flushing Meadows next month but won’t risk a repeat of the deportation furor he went through in Australia. The Serbian superstar has won the U.S. Open on three occasions.
He was named on the entry list for the final grand slam of the year on Wednesday, but that is routine, rather than an indication that he will be allowed to play. The list is made up of the highest ranking players in the world. Djokovic is currently ranked seventh. He is only one major win away from tying with fellow legend Rafa Nadal for 22 major titles.
Djokovic said when asked about playing at the U.S. Open: “I’m not going to go to America if I don’t have permission, so the Australian saga for me was not pleasant at all. People still think I forced my way to Australia and tried to come in with no papers, permission or exemption – it is not true. That was proven in the court cases, so I would never go into a country where I didn’t have permission to travel. I would love to come back to Australia. I love Australia, I had my best Grand Slam results in that country. Hopefully I can be there in January because I want to be there, and I also want to be in New York. I want to be in America and everywhere I can possibly play.”
The tournament has not banned any players but the rules are the U.S. Government’s. It’s an unhappy reminder that America continues to discriminate ruthlessly against vaccinated people by banning them from visiting the country, even though its own health agencies admit that the vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission.
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In more positive news, it is looking hopeful for Australia next February, as it’s being reported that the new Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, who is a huge tennis follower who plays the sport several times a week, is expected to take a more sympathetic view of Djokovic’s case. It’s an odd version of the rule of law, though, to have the rules sent according to the pastimes of current incumbents.
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“The emergency declaration mostly serves as a prelude to the best and easiest grift ever – forcing people to be vaxxed for something that is not dangerous to them, with a vaxx that is potentially dangerous to them and will lead to even more lovely jubbly viral outbreak grifts, and, best of all, making the people pay for this themselves.” Fixed it 😉
If over 40% of infected have HIV, this suggests a suppressed immune system is also a factor underlying the spread. The real question I think most of us here would like answered is how many of the infected have received one or more covid vaxxes? The rapid rise and spread of a virus that has been known to exist in humans for decades is just too coincidental not to at least entertain the idea. Until that question has been answered, this is just one more reason for these criminals to stop pushing the covid vaxxes.
Monkeypox? Don’t worry, they’ll offer a monkey gunk “cure”…
P.S. any news on how many Amish have got monkeypox?
Brilliant.
One hell of a take down in so few words.
Nailed it.
MONEYPOX
The elephant in the room….
Please don’t give them any ideas! Bat flu, monkeypox, now rampant pachydermatis?
Agree – the poor things need to be left alone. Animals are being blamed more and more for things that humans bring on themselves.
Please don’t bring elephants into this topic. There must be an awful lot of them in rooms at the moment but they deserve better…
Billions of people worldwide given an experimental jab that apparently tricks the immune system into standing down faster than NORAD on 9/11, combined with two years worth of immunity debt, and we wonder why so many previously rare or nearly vanquished diseases are suddenly exploding or making a comeback.
Although the fact that this stuff tricks the immune system is highly worrisome, I find the fact that the vaxx seems capable of melting people’s brains and tricking billions of people into believing it is “safe and effective” to be most disturbing.
Indeed, that is the scariest part of all.
I wonder now if lockdowns and “vaccines”, rather than being about a virus or even big pharma profit were actually more about engineering a global health emergency. And then what? Controlled demolition of the economy? One world government? Depopulation? So many possibilities for tyrants and psychopaths.
You sound just like a conspiracy theorist… You know how much they are loved…
Morons on the rampage?
Those that agreed to be injected with these dangerous experimental concoctions clearly didn’t have much brain to start with.
Nonetheless, I consider them victims. This is perhaps the most powerful propaganda campaign the world has ever seen, and I still wonder if it is in part because the globalists started to panic in 2016.
Maybe but most were frightened, bullied or coerced or a combination, or all three. Certainly all were uninformed.
Many took them to keep their jobs.
Many also took them to go on holiday…
Many people who would score highly on an IQ test have enthusiastically had themselves injected. We see this on a societal scale in places like South Korea and Japan. Conversely, many lower IQ individuals have decided that this wasn’t the time to start trusting the man.
Must have to do with something else, pathological conformism perhaps.
In any case, whatever it is I’m all out of sympathy.
It’s a horrible thing to say, but the best thing that could happen for our societies is that side-effects (a dumb term, as I’m not sure what the primary effect is given how ineffective these damn things are) are sufficient enough in number and severe enough, to cause riots and calls for retribution.
The people I know took them because they are ‘good’ members of society and want to be recognised as such. There is/was a lot of virtue signalling around the vaccines and boosters.Churches encouraged them to take the vaccines too and where I live in Scotland people are still testing themselves before they go to church or events. Presumably they are using up their stockpiles of LFTs so who knows what happens when they run out.
A large number of these people are ‘clever’ people with degrees and qualifications but don’t see the effects of the vaccines. They are mystified and hugely sympathetic to people who are having Covid for the umpteenth time.
Clearly IQ tests don’t count for much in this regard. As for your last paragraph, I am very much in sympathy with your sentiments, but regrettably I can’t really envisage the dumb-downed UK public rioting, even if they were knee deep in Covid injected bodies.
Everything is going to plan.
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Are these China’s WHO declared “global health emergencies” going to be a regular thing now then?
The thing is, they’re so brazen about it. Radio 4 reported earlier that a global health emergency will mean among other things producing more vaccines. Mark my words, there are vested political and financial interests involved in this or I’m a monkey!
The WHO belongs to Bill Gates.
China’s WHO.
https://www.dw.com/en/what-influence-does-china-have-over-the-who/a-53161220.
In 2018/19, the last full year before Covid, China generously stumped up the princely sum of $86 million for the WHO. However, the US topped the list with $893 million. In second place was dear old Billy Gates with $531 million, presumably paid out of his back pocket. In third place was the UK with $435 million.
China’s WHO? Give us a break.
I understand that the CCP influence the WHO in other ways than financial contributions. Others probably know more about this than me.
He who pays the piper…
There was a similar thing with Russia. People said their economy was similar in size to Italy’s. But money goes further in Russia and Russia has a large army, which is still what wins wars. And the fact remains that China’s WHO seem to have been pretty compliant over the China virus. This has been discussed previously on this forum. I can’t remember the details, but perhaps someone who does know still contributes and could tell us.
Hey, maybe we’re both right (as Homer Simpson might say)…
He who pays the piper…
“You can’t bribe a judge”.
“With money, no. But with whisky…” (Dad’s Army).
More than one way to skin a cat you know. And China are very keen on one world government (as long as it’s socialist with a Chinese character – hence the normalising of Chinese totalitarian measures over the last two years). Mark my words, they have plenty of influence and know how to use it.
Or a monkey’s uncle.
I for one am terrified.
I’ve got two masks and three condoms on at all times. NHS app.at the ready and standing by for three or four shots of a vaccine.
Just three or four shots and you think you’re done? What are you, some kind of anti-vaxxer kook? Everyone knows that is NOT how vaccines work.
A vaccine as currently defined means 3 or 4 shots every year for the rest of your life. Or is that 3 or 4 shots every week? The Science changes so fast these days I can’t keep up. Following the
money$cience is sooo hard.BINGO
So does this mean I can have unprotected sex with anything that moves? After all, your condom protects me!
Zing!
This is how you produce a terrifying scare. The attached chart is based on 56 monkeypox cases back in mid May. We’re now being told that there have been 2,000 or so as of mid July, this suggests an R of 0.055. By mid Nov this would mean 1m cases, by the end of Jan 23 the entire population will have been infected……. unless of course you manage to avoid gay casual sex.
These projections are all hysterical nonsense. Like with so much these days, there’s a concerted effort to persuade people to believe absolute nonsense.
Apparently Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus overruled his committee (the 1st time this has happened) to impose this.
“Like with so much these days, there’s a concerted effort to persuade people to believe absolute nonsense”.
In contrast to the medieval time when people were trying to increase knowledge and become more civilised (Oxford University and Magna Carta for a start).
Reminds me of the chart of a certain failed physicist that tried to play epidemiologist back in March 2020…what was his name again? Professor Pantsdown!
This meme.
Aside from the typo in “acquired”, they maybe onto something. Shingles is from the reactivation of dormant chickenpox virus in the nerves, and produces an extremely painful rash. Though that doesn’t explain why so many “monkeypox” rashes seem to be confined to the nether regions, or how it appears to spread akin to a textbook STD for the most part.
Shingles only appears on one half of the body. It is also excruciatingly painful (I was given morphine for it at one point). I have seen pictures of monkeypox and it looks as though it covers the whole body. I have seen it suggested that, to look at, monkey pox is indistinguishable from chickenpox, so pity any poor child with soft in the head millenial parents who comes down with chicken pox, because you just know they are going to jump to conclusions.
Also, isn’t there something about a chimpanzee adenovirus being used in the manufacture of the clot shots?
Why wouldn’t something that totally screws up the immune system not reactivate a long dormant STD besides causing a whole host of other nasty health problems?
The interesting question is what does the WHO now plan to do about it? At least in New York, even the faintest suggestion that sex orgies among men might be a little imprudent at the moment is considered so discriminatory that it’s completely off limits. As Eugyppius recently quipped (paraphrase), for the so-called public health authorities. pretty much all of the private and public life of all people is nothing but a perfectly expendable health hazard. But anonymous male – male mass intercourse is the very definition of essential.
Don’t worry, I’m sure Ferguson et al. are working on a model and pretty graphs showing us that while we were worrying about
the winter corona waveUkrainethe spring corona wavekeeping the lights onthe summer corona wave, there has been exponential (!) asymptomatic (oh no!!) spread of monkeypox through the straight and lesbian population at a far faster rate than realised, and that the spread among children is out of control (they won’t make the mistake they made with corona and let the kiddies get away this time). As with corona, the main symptoms of monkeypox will become clearer with time, when we realise that those who suffer the worst form will have blisters, spots and pustules that they cannot see and cannot feel and tricks the sufferer into believing they feel perfectly fine. And it is even more infectious than the most infectious corona variant, even from 100 feet away. We will long for the days of simple masking, as we are told to wrap ourselves in clingfilm from head to foot for the 50-day incubation period.Who was it who described homosexual males as human petri dishes?
I don’t want to be overly optimistic, but I don’t think people are going to buy this. Even the covidians I know think monkeypox is a joke.
AIDS “crisis” all over again.
Monkeypox–just drop the “k” and you get MONEYPOX. Because that’s what’s it’s really all about.
They are up to no good as usual.Keeping people on edge for what they have planned comes next? So conniving.
If this amount of low numbers triggers a national emergency the next thing will be upgraded to an Stella interplanetary solar system lockdown. Tell Elon.
If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite amount of time to tap randomly on keyboards they still wouldn’t come up with a single WHO declaration.
Infinity is a very large amount you know. I’ve been meaning to ask the believers in mathematical impossibilities neo-Darwinist types about their beliefs on how likely something has to be to be able to be repeated an indefinite amount of times given sufficient time, space and resources; how likely something has to be to be able to happen, but only happen once even given infinite time, space and resources; and how unlikely something has to be to not be able to happen at all through natural causes even given infinite time, space and matter. I suspect nobody will know what I’m on about…
Hey, don’t call me nobody! 🙂
WHO doesn’t ?
Like your post funny 😊but on point
Pandemic emergencies used to mean significant fatalities, until this was removed from the definition.
So here we are…Monkeypox…
It’s a good job it doesn’t spread achimptomatically.
Kudos to whoever thought of that first.
…do you think they will try to track you with a microchimp?
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/world-map.html
CDC Monkeypox tracker…
As the countries who number cases in the ‘thousands’ are either in Europe or the US, expect the promotion of jabs..lockdowns..and distancing to start!!
Given by men to men…..Fauci recommends derriere masks and Gorilla glue to seal the cheeks. That should stop Resident Biden cheating at the mid-terms.
“Jabba, jabba, jabba says the monkey to the chimp”
Going forward, the WHO will declare a pandemic whenever it feels like it. This is about power, control and money …… and nothing else.
Watch out for that Monkeypox iceberg.
Actually the WHO experts voted 6-3 against the move, but Tedros – who is NOT a doctor – ignored his medically qualified colleagues and decided to issue the highly questionable declaration anyway.