"I can't stand repeating any more of his staggering hubris."
Five days ago, the Australian Press rounded on Kelly Slater for being sceptical of COVID-19 vaccines after the champ lit up on a little-known website popular with ocean athletes.
Slater, who turns fifty in a few months, told of friends dying from the vaccine, either from side-effects of suicide. Even his mum Judy Moriarity “thought she was dying and fears her quality of life has changed in the past few days for good,” wrote Slater.
Now, Peter FitzSimons, a star columnist for broadsheet The Sydney Morning Herald, has mauled Slater in a brutal opinion piece, published yesterday.
A few of the choicest cuts,
Ummm, Kelly. Do you get this is not just about you, but about the community you are a part of? That getting the vaccine is not just about keeping yourself safer, but also limiting the likelihood of you passing it on to those less healthy than you.
You don’t get that? OK, if you must, do go on.
“If something happens to me it’s on me, not someone else.”
(See above. You risk passing it on! Seriously, how hard is this?)
The next bit from Slater is all about how 99.7 per cent of all people who get COVID are fine, so what is the big deal, particularly when “this is clearly a disease of obese, unhealthy, and elderly”.
This is too obvious a nonsense to spend any time on it. The healthy people who go down to COVID are too myriad to dwell on. And as to 99.7 per cent being fine, that is just – what that’s word again? – bullshit. In fact, globally, a little over two per cent of those who contract COVID die from it – so you’re about 700 per cent out. But it is not just those who die that count. What about those, having survived, who are still suffering from it, including fatigue, foggy brain, and difficulty in breathing!
Anyway, let’s get back to Kelly Slater so he can unload this pearl.
“And for people saying listen to the doctors, I’m positive I know more about being healthy than 99% of doctors, but I wouldn’t trust me. But most of my COVID info comes directly from doctor friends, many of them in disagreement with the official ‘science’.”
Hello, United Nations? World Health Organisation? The medical establishment around the world?
Yeah, look. Call off the jam. Despite the 735,000 now dead in America from COVID and the millions around the world, turns out it’s no big deal at all! Yes, you heard me! Kelly Slater the surfer knows more than 99 per cent of all of you, and he not only won the world surfing championship 11 times – so he should know a lot about medicine, I think? – but is supported by some doctor friends! So I guess it’s all a hoax after all!
I know. Go figure.
Enough. I am not sure I can stand repeating any more of his staggering hubris.
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Sean Volland shame on you! Talking shit online about the Slater family is pathetic. You are clearly obsessed with them. Get a life. It really makes me sad that you are still doing this after all these years! Why so mean?
750k dead WITH covid19, not FROM it. Likelihood is that roughly 100k are dead directly due to covid19, since the PCR test can pick up the flu and other COVID, and the testing cycles adjusted high to create false positives. Read more guys. Good for Kelly. The truth will slowly crush the weak and the sheep.
Kelly is completely entitled to his opinion. A lot of what he said is true.
So agree, or disagree. What is the big deal?
Cripes, all you detractors sound like a bunch of nit-wit ‘Karens’ on the rag or something.
Since when did surfers become such wussies over another human being’s opinions?
Grow a sack or something, ya freakin’ pansies.
It’s “mi ijo”, buey.
First of all, go focus on your clothing brand, Kelly. All my clothes from said company have fallen apart within 6-months. Literal holes. Feeling ripped off, and now he’s gonna go on a tyrant about things he thinks he knows about, moreso than those who have dedicated their careers to the subject (some longer than he’s been alive). Those same people aren’t telling Kelly how to surf.
Kelly is right. The vaccine is ineffective and dangerous. Good for him for standing his ground. The clock is ticking on folks waking up to what is actually happening, including the dope who wrote the hit piece.
Full disclosure I’m not a surfer, but after spending time In Hawaii became a fan.
I would never post on a surf website, but since the article is about the MRNA shot I felt it was fair game.
Dr Malone the inventor of these shots advised against humans taking them. He was once admired now silenced. I encourage everyone to read up on Agenda21 and New world order, Build Back Better this has been planned.
This is a communist takeover. 🤔 think, think , think if we remain divided they win. If the Globalists win you can forget about freedom to surf. First a mask, isolation, division, and now show me your papers.
I would know my family is a survivor of communism. Think bigger, shots don’t work. Why do we need them for 98% survival rate. Why is censorship at an all time high? Search for the truth .
Live Free or Live in fear for ever!
I seriously have no idea .
I hate this stuff.
I’m a doctor and I quote Kelly Slater all the time on patients with Sciatica. It just means you need to stretch! I agree that surfers like Kelly and Laird know more about “staying healthy” than book worms who bust thru med school pushing pills.
Get these two bald cunts in the cage. Slats v Fitz. Battle of the belted domes
So we have a medical expert in a drunk journalist who played part time rugby telling a old pro surfer that his expert medical views are incorrect.
The Australian media have dug there hole so deep no light other than what the government has instructed them to say can penetrate. They have no concept of balanced journalism.
Kelly on the other side can’t stfu . His desperation for attention is as sad as it annoying.
Believe what you want and do as you please.
Fuck the government, the media and the wsl!
I will NEVER take that poison. IDC how many lemmings say “bUT yOU’re KiLLiNG PEopLe”.
I had covid 2 months ago. Easy Peasy. This isn’t the black death you hysterical nut jobs. I live in Florida which has the lowest rates in the country now! Amazing!
The 1 to 2 percent Dying who contract covid die from it is complet BS. The vast majority of those die with covid not of.
And whether Kelly is a dick or not I find it completely believable that he knows more about healthy living than 99% of docs
I think we can all just agree Fitzsimmons Slater would be a good name for a law firm and that both of them carry this look extremely well.
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Pete Fitzjackass is totally wrong and deserves to be fired from his so called journalism job.
Fact: Vaccinated people can spread Covid as easily as non-vaccinated people. Some studies say vaccinated can spread even easier than non-vaccinated
Fact: Covid is 99 percent survivable for people under 65
Fact: Many doctors have been wrong about Covid and have changes their advice
Who does Kelly think he is, Ayn Rand?
Florida now has the LOWEST Covid case rate per capita of all 50 states. And that is despite having NO mandates, NO passports, NO forced-masking, and everything is open, including schools.
That’s what happens after 60k deaths,almost 4 million cases and horrible leadership. Everyone has either had it or is vaccinated.
Exactly. Where the fuck do these idiots come from? Oh yeah, the shitty education system in America. More dumb fucks then ever running around these days.
Anyone trying to make this as a point is fucking stupid. End of story…
Thanks to the first BG article about Kelly’s covid confusion I was able to post a comment advising him of his many errors. Luckily for me, he responded, saying ‘You’re not totally wrong….’ along with numerous illogical arguments and other nonsense. But so what, those first four words were the nicest thing a celebrity has ever said to me! I’m still beaming!!
Please stay out of theaters Mr. Reubens. The restraining order is still in effect.