"I’m not anti vax. I’m anti mandating medical procedures," says Kelly Slater. "Think I’ll wait for the antibodies naturally if I get COVID."
The Brazilian two-time world champ Gabriel Medina has revealed via the live video-streaming service Twitch that he ain’t going near the Tahiti Pro following next week’s Mex event, which may or may not run after Oaxaca shut down all beaches following a new COVID outbreak.
Bedecked in jewels, Medina, who is twenty-seven, says he refused the Brazilian Olympic committee’s offer of a COVID-19 vax prior to the Tokyo Games, and therefore cannot meet France’s strict-ish quarantine laws.
See, ‘cause he ain’t vaccinated, Medina would be forced into ten days of quarantine following Mex, meaning he’d miss the event.
“There’s no time to go from Mexico to there, because it’s one after the other. I’ll be forced not to go,” said Medina. “But good. I can rule out a stage, so it’s good.”
NEGACIONISMO? | Gabriel Medina afirma que não tomou a vacina contra Covid-19 oferecida pelo COB e perderá etapa do Mundial de Surf. Informação foi confirmada pelo próprio atleta em live. Confira: https://t.co/YSpO3ANtau pic.twitter.com/8YjokvdEcF
— LeiaJá Esportes (@LeiaJaEsportes) August 5, 2021
And Medina isn’t going to be the only surfer choosing one of the other contest given some high-profile surfers’ objections to the COVID vaccination.
Two months ago in a social media stoush, Kelly Slater revealed he wasn’t anti getting jabbed, necessarily, but wanted to sit back a little, examine the side-effects.
Responding to a claim that he was pushing “anti-vax nonsense”, Slater wrote,
“Why does this account always end up with these triggered, bitchy people who can’t take a joke? And second, I’m not anti vax. I’m anti mandating medical procedures. But I’ve never even pushed that.”
Asked whether he’d be getting the vaccine, Slater wrote, “probably not anytime soon… It hasn’t been studied long enough to know long term cons. A friend’s dad also died a couple days after getting it from blood clots, so there’s that. Think I’ll wait for the antibodies naturally if I get COVID.”
And, although no longer on tour, the much-loved former world number two, Taj Burrow, warned his 326,000 followers back in May of the folly of vaccination.
“Do not get the poisonous needle,” wrote Tez.
Medina’s decision reveals one of the two flaws in the Finals Day format; that a surfer with enough wins in the first half of the year can pick and choose which contests he appears in during the back half.
Heady days etc.
Given the how transmissible Delta is Slater will get his chance for natural antibodies sooner rather than later.
Chas Smith you’re a doos.you need a fucking good poes klap
Liberals will be furious at you. I’ll start – “you’re all uneducated MAGA Trumpers from Russian, Cletus…….”
No. He. Did. Not. Its a simple google. Why dont you give it a try and stop slurping up whatever Fox News shoves down your throat.
I can write I’m the inventor of surfing on LinkedIn, Whats your point?
People with you “natural antibodies” are still spreading the virus you dunce.
Yep. My mom died of H1N1 5 years ago. Way less lethal than this shit. The image of her agonizing in the hospital for 2 weeks will never leave my mind. So, yeah I will take my fucking chances with the vaccine. Fuck these negationist cunts.
Had some Chinese fuck sneeze/cough that one right at me. Sickest I have been in years…I don’t get sick. Sorry about your mom
The ‘vax’ is not a vax but an mRNA gene therapy that at its best allegedly decreases symptom severity so as to not require hospitalization (although the most vaxxed countries have the highest infection rates at present). So why would a top athlete risk and adverse reaction to a vax when his chance of being hospitalized due to Covid is like being struck by lightning twice. Much greater chance of Gabs getting wrecked by the jab than the actual virus. Smart dude.
Because an adverse reaction to the vax is many times lower than longer term health effects from covid. It might not kill you, it might not hospitalize you, but it could wreck you enough to end your career.
I’m almost 2 years in recovering from a severe lung infection and shit’s still not right.
TO EACH THEIR OWN. I don’t think social media tolerates people that have their own opinions. And also, if you know that, why summon all the trolls just don’t enter and blame it on olympic “mental health issues”.
Malone is well known as a fringe whacko these days. This claim by him has been debunked, as has the study he’s referring to.
https://factcheck.afp.com/h…
Turns out pro surfers are stupid after all
Imagine getting tetanus, hepatitis B, etc., and just waiting for your antibodies to fight it…
You have a “private doctor”? Is that for normal people?
Is that the vaccine or what the little girls get when he visits eps
It looks like Florida might be a great experiment in vaccine resistance. The old and sick lined up as fast as possible for the vaccine because they were afraid of going to the hospital and dying. Now gov ron is gonna try to get as many people infected as possible so he can be Hispanic trump. Let’s see how brave the antivaxers are when 2-3 /1000 are going to the hospital. Are you one of those lucky 2-3 people?
Sorry, did I say hospital? I meant big tent in a hot parking lot
Language, it’s a virus!!
Make “fuck you money” and you can be anything you like.
A tenet as old as time…
Brazilians, I hope.
Oh…you said VAXXED…
So will you be getting the shot if it receives full FDA approval?
Unfortunately being a know it all doesn’t guarantee the rich part.
Unfortunately for Otto
She had tried to get vaccine, but couldn’t get a booking… government has botched the program here. Utterly, utterly tragic.
https://www.theguardian.com…
Yes but would that old devil Trevor Robbo do ?