“This is not a fight for the libertarian world, this is not just a fight for Novak, but a fight for the whole world!”
Yesterday came the news, in a roundabout sorta way, that vaccine sceptic Kelly Slater was still a chance to surf the Australian leg of the tour after world number one tennis player Novak Djokovic secured a vax exemption to compete at the Australian Open in Melbourne.
The decision sparked fury among residents of the most shuttered city in the world who lived through six lockdowns totalling 262 days after COVID kicked off worldwide in March 2020.
Exemptions can be given for reasons such as anaphylactic response to the COVID vaccine, a poor response to vaccination or having had Covid in the last six months.
It wasn’t revealed what reason the Serbian star, who is “personally opposed to vaccination”, gave for his exemption.
Anyway, Australia’s PM stepped in, obvs motivated by the chance to score some easy political points amid a rising fury of his handling of the crisis, tweeted, “Mr Djokovic’s visa has been cancelled. Rules are rules, especially when it comes to our borders. No one is above these rules. Our strong border policies have been critical to Australia having one of the lowest death rates in the world from Covid, we are continuing to be vigilant.”
Djokovic’s daddy was real sad, telling a radio station, “This is not a fight for the libertarian world, this is not just a fight for Novak, but a fight for the whole world!”
The Djokovic decision had opened the door to the greatest of all time to give Australians one more chance to examine his whipped-out flayed heel-ground turns, those little Slater Designs rails sunk to the hilt.
Now, probs no.
Slater, of course, hasn’t been shy in expressing his opinion of the pandemic.
“This is clearly a disease of obese, unhealthy, and elderly if you study the official statistics,” he’s said.
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fake post. i went to his twitter and I don’t see this post.
Na, it’s not on the menu down unda
Not yet
It’s a lovely combo
The fenty clogs up the runs from the horsey
And when in last 2 years has any advice been given on how to treat Covid – NONE here in Oz just isolate and get the jab to save your family and friends!!!!!
as of Jan 2 in NSW % of patients in Hospital with covid unvaxxed 29,9%
% fully vaxxed 67.4%
in ICU unvaxxed 48.4% fully vaxxed 50.5%
aci.health.nsw.gov.au
gotta find that old Run Man VHS with the Suicide Sandbar
IamSamIam
Why hasn’t Kelly ever been able to grow chest hair?
I see this all the time with pro surfers. Is it a genetic short person problem?
It’s a generic drug with low profit margins. Fuck it!
The lust for power is a virus, far more dangerous than any other.
History, once again, repeats itself.
History says
Tool up.
Either tool up or drop out.
Wade Carmichael is at risk.
Surfline Man is far more entertaining and worth reading than all the shit posted about a fucking vaccine.
Vaccines are mandated so that hospitals don’t fill up. It’s not about catching and/or spreading. Vaccines are about not getting so sick that 1. you take a hospital bed from someone else…2. that we keep insurance costs from going even higher than they are..(the more deathly ill ppl insurance has to pay for the more we all experience rise in our health insurance. …and 3. the mandate for workers to be vaccinated are so that workers aren’t out for extended periods of time which results in things like loss of revenue for companies and disruption in supply chain…both effects global economy.
People dying in hospitals and effecting us all are mostly unvaccinated. Facts are Facts!
It isn’t about you, selfish dumfuck …it’s about us all!
The rich don’t have to work.
And so don’t get mandated
Winning again, despite your fascist efforts.
Remind me again how often the story has changed in the last two years?
I’m pretty sure today is day 690-ish of “15 Days to Flatten The Curve.”
And some people bought this hook, line and sinker.
To whom are you fucking?
I had a few Oreos on Christmas Day.
Fuck, they were delicious.
100% – that’s why it’s so laughable.
She looked pretty fucking healthy to me – https://www.ocregister.com/… – now she left a family – for what?
Get jabbed or not – whatever. But the vax is safe and effective – it is inarguable. What morons like KS and the rest of you qotards don’t get is that everyone needs to play in order to squash this.
The jab is safe and effective?
I really admittedly don’t know much about all this crud going on for the last 2 years now– but from what I’ve read, they now want to keep ‘jabbing’ you every time ‘another’ variant strain pops its head up now.
The Chinese have been building artificial islands in the China sea for years, oppressing their own people, jailing dissidents, trying to re-take Taiwan, building hypersonic weapons, its not a stretch of my imagination that this was created in a Chinese Lab.
It absolutely was created in a Chinese lab.
It’s impossible for a virus to be this virulent on its third fourth and five “wave.”
The only good news is that its severity is waning.
You are the definition of ignoramus.
Ebola, West Nile and the Spanish Flu are just few examples of viruses that mutated into more lethal forms.
How does that government phallus feels lodged in the back of your throat?
Oh, a cospiracy nuts on the internet. I’m shocked!
What is it about people over 65 dying of covid that’s so okay with you? The facts are very clear. Covid vaccines prevent serious illness and hospitalization and virtually all death from covid, if vaccinated and boosted. The AP piece on Ernby broke yesterday as did the Novak story. No one is cheering about either but I do see tons of denial and junk science in this thread—lots of whistling past the graveyard. If Ernby was vaccinated she would very likely be alive today. That she died is tragic… and those who will continue to die of covid in the coming weeks from this most recent surge will nearly be entirely unvaccinated. These facts are indisputable. It’s your casino, you’ve placed your bet but don’t tell me I’m ignorant because you’re pissed that the facts and science – and the statistics – are overwhelming on my side.
How is this dancing? The Associated Press is reporting on the covid death of a politician who campaigned against vaccination mandates. Ernby was a vociferous anti vaxxer and likely convinced many not to get vaccinated. The science is very clear. Had she been vaxxed she would very likely be alive. Ernby was a healthy 47 year old woman without underlying medical conditions. That she died so quickly from covid is tragic. News is news; don’t kill the messenger.
It’s way easier to explain why the earth rotates around the sun than that the sun rotates around the earth. The 1st you can do with the laws of motion and the theory of gravity, for the second you generally need a mystical sky creature that can impose its will on the universe.