Novak Djokovic to remain in visa limbo until Monday as he fights deportation from Australia

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  1. MiaBleu

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    Agree.......Well done Australia !! Principles matter............as do Public Health rules. He wants to remain unvaccinated...........fine.........but he can easily be outcast ed now. He made his choice. The World wide pandemic is a lot bigger than his ego.........and more significant.
     
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    A good reminder. I've been trying to correct this myself. "maga", "conservative populists", Trumpists.

    PF cracked down on the word "Trumpists" for a while, but the mods seem to have given up policing your word, since it's a pretty accurate description of what they are.
     
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    Novax reminds me of Depp and his wife trying to smuggle dogs in without quarantine. Nothing less than celebrity arrogance!
     
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    Interesting! I did not know this. Not sure why it would be different from leftists and rightists but hey.
     
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  5. Melb_muser

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    I suspect a few Trumpists whined long and hard about the label. They can be a sensitive bunch...
     
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    Ha. I thought you would commend us for our law enforcement, since MAGA has complained about "hordes" of unvaccinated entering at the southern border.

    Typical of populous conservatives to make an exception for a celebrity.
     
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    I don't think he'd ever actually consider leaving America. I mean what's the rest of the world got to offer?
     
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    Lol.
     
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    I would suspect it's because of this.

    I can attest that PF mods will take the Urban Dictionary meaning in to consideration when making a judgment. With that said, Leftist has a more homogenized meaning..

    Travel the slang highway at your own peril ;)
     
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    You consider what's happening in Australia policing? Holy hell that's disturbing to read :shock:
     
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    Ha. It looks like France is going to shut the border as well. Poor Novax
     
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    A little prick.
    Coincidentally that was all he needed too.
     
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    Ask a Trumpist and yee shall get ;)

    (I suspect Trump would be both for vaccination and for border control though)

    Trumpist (not comparable)(politics) Pertaining to or resembling characteristics of Trumpism. Synonym of Trumpian. quotations ▼

    Trumpism is a term for the political ideologies, social emotions, style of governance,[9] political movement, and set of mechanisms for acquiring and keeping control of power associated with Donald Trump and his political base.[10

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpism#:~:text=Trumpism is a term for,Trump and his political base.
     
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    LOL I just explained why that word is considered derogatory :)

    Oh well ;)
     
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    Absolutely true... I've read that the term is obsolete, but it's hard for me to stop using it.

    That's my PF.com New Years resolution (2 weeks late).... No more conservatives...

    US T****ers it is!
     
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    Yes, that's what I was coming back to this thread to post...

    No exemptions to play in the French Open in May

    https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/novak-djokovic-could-face-another-133004069.html

    Thinking on it, I'm not sure a celebrity/athlete could be handed a bigger opportunity for redemption than he is right now. He's not playing anywhere this week. Why not go on TV and get your first Pfizer?? (I really think we need to SEE it happen) Yeah, he'll probably feel like crap for 24 hours, like many of us did, but after that, only 1 more required shot. I gather he won't have time to get boosted before Paris, but that's not required anywhere yet...

    People get 2nd chances all the time in this world. For crying out loud, I give you Michael Vick, who was 1/10th the person Djokovic is...

    Big chance here.... hope somebody points that out to him....
     
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    It's so much more apropos. Plus, it does a great disservice to true conservatives many of whom did not vote Trump in 2020 nor will in 2024. Heck, some did not in 2016.
     
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    France adopted very strict rules for participating in any sports event. Only vaccinated and or recovered will be permitted to participate.
    Since there is some serious doubts about his positive test, he might have to show additional proof.

    New rules are coming up for recovered, one, the status of recovered is only good for 3 months.

    I think he screwed him self bigly
     
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    Australia has went full anti-Science and pure Authoritarian. Natural Immunity in the previously infected is no longer a thing apparently. For a Tennis Player that can be held in his hotel room until it's time to play an OUTDOOR sport with natural distancing to be banned tells us it's more about symbolism than actual Science.
     
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    It never was, as is shown by people like Glenn Beck who have been sick multiple times.
     
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    This is spot on but there is real natural immunity but the poster you quoted mislabeled the type of immunity in his post. It should have been phrased as acquired immunity. Natural immunity is being exposed but never infected or being a totally asymptomatic carrier.
     
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    My mother had all the vaccines and booster and caught it too.... as have millions of others. How many of the reinfected are dying?

    Israel proved that Natural Immunity is stronger than the vaccines. The Cleveland Study and La Jolla (UCSD) studies also show at least 11 months of strong immunity from the antibodies and likely decades more protection from T Cells and B Cells. Why are you ignoring all that Science?
     
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    Because catching Covid every 11 months is far more risky than getting vaccinated.
     
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    If you have Natural Immunity reinfection is minor, if you notice it at all.... so not risky at all.
     
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    You got natural immunity on one hand, and you got the reality on the ground that the unvaxxed are punching way above their weight with their presence in hospitals. You think a lot of people let their bodies scientifically examined, to see if they got that natural immunity, with the unvaxxed punching so hard above their weight in hospitals? Seems they are just making a gamble with their life to everybody else.

    IMHO, the unvaxxed should go back to their guru's on fakebook and ask what to do if they get sick,.... instead of suddenly relying on the science in hospitals, the science they mistrust. Afterall, they are occupying beds there who are in short supply.
     
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