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Novak Djokovic: Tennis star to be deported after losing Australia visa appeal (BBC 16 January 2022)
Tennis star Novak Djokovic has lost his last-ditch court bid to stay in Australia and is set to be deported.
Judges rejected his appeal after the government cancelled the unvaccinated player's visa for a second time this month on public health grounds.
There has been much public anger in Australia over Djokovic's attempt to enter the country while unvaccinated.
The government has repeatedly said that no-one is above the strict rules in place to cope with the pandemic.
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In December, Djokovic backed protests in Serbia against Rio Tinto mining lithium.
The Australian Prime Minister's current chief of staff used to be head of government relations at Rio Tinto.
Purely coincidental though...
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Politicians are just too slow to surf the waves of reality, the pandemic is receding, the vaccines are not efficient besides protecting the weak, this whole mandate thing should be taken off the table and life should get back to normal ASAP.
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This is strategic now. They've all but given up on the nonvaxx community...now it's about cleanly (as is possible) navigating to endemic stage. I think we'll see life getting back to normal starting mid-late February.
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..., the vaccines are not efficient besides protecting the weak, ...
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This is strategic now. They've all but given up on the nonvaxx community...now it's about cleanly (as is possible) navigating to endemic stage. I think we'll see life getting back to normal starting mid-late February.
Sounds good, if normality returns by mid-late February, I will be very happy and surprised at the speed of it. We still have countries trying to enforce mandates by February or otherwise wanting to make life miserable for the unvaccinated. I wonder how those politicians will be perceived, if their plans are swept away. Maybe it was all a tactic to get as many jabbed.
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Politicians are just too slow to surf the waves of reality, the pandemic is receding, the vaccines are not efficient besides protecting the weak, this whole mandate thing should be taken off the table and life should get back to normal ASAP.
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skytrench
Politicians are just too slow to surf the waves of reality, the pandemic is receding, the vaccines are not efficient besides protecting the weak, this whole mandate thing should be taken off the table and life should get back to normal ASAP.
Anti-vaxxers have been saying the same thing for a year. 20 20 hindsight demonstrates their blindness.
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Politicians are just too slow to surf the waves of reality, the pandemic is receding, the vaccines are not efficient besides protecting the weak, this whole mandate thing should be taken off the table and life should get back to normal ASAP.
Anti-vaxxers have been saying the same thing for a year. 20 20 hindsight demonstrates their blindness.
There's a need to distinguish between those who want:
1.mandates for everyone to be vaccinated
2.mandates vaccinating certain groups
3.people to choose for themselves
4.nobody to be vaccinated
I am for 3, but can accept 2, if the vaccines protect against transmission. Anti-vaxxers would be 4 in my world. What are you daspyknows?
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Between one and 2. By certain groups it means airplanes, indoor public events, mass transit etc. Public health is how to preserve the health of the public. Drunk driving is a public health issue. Should that be ok too because some drunk behind the wheels doesn't want his or her right to drive infringed? I know, you will tell me it is a nonsensical comparison. I will disagree pre-emptively.
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Right on Australia. Send that arrogant turd back from where he came from.
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Between one and 2. By certain groups it means airplanes, indoor public events, mass transit etc. Public health is how to preserve the health of the public. Drunk driving is a public health issue. Should that be ok too because some drunk behind the wheels doesn't want his or her right to drive infringed? I know, you will tell me it is a nonsensical comparison. I will disagree pre-emptively.
Define vaccinated. 2 jabs, 3 jabs or as many as someone else decides for you? Should it be mandated that the obese lose weight as they put a drain on the medical system.
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Between one and 2. By certain groups it means airplanes, indoor public events, mass transit etc. Public health is how to preserve the health of the public. Drunk driving is a public health issue. Should that be ok too because some drunk behind the wheels doesn't want his or her right to drive infringed? I know, you will tell me it is a nonsensical comparison. I will disagree pre-emptively.
Define vaccinated. 2 jabs, 3 jabs or as many as someone else decides for you? Should it be mandated that the obese lose weight as they put a drain on the medical system.
Not my job to define that. I will leave it to the scientists. Being obese isn't a contagious disease and doesn't jeopardize the public health of others. Why do you think it is your right to infect someone else with a communicable disease?
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Between one and 2. By certain groups it means airplanes, indoor public events, mass transit etc. Public health is how to preserve the health of the public. Drunk driving is a public health issue. Should that be ok too because some drunk behind the wheels doesn't want his or her right to drive infringed? I know, you will tell me it is a nonsensical comparison. I will disagree pre-emptively.
Define vaccinated. 2 jabs, 3 jabs or as many as someone else decides for you? Should it be mandated that the obese lose weight as they put a drain on the medical system.
Not my job to define that. I will leave it to the scientists. Being obese isn't a contagious disease and doesn't jeopardize the public health of others. Why do you think it is your right to infect someone else with a communicable disease?
It does because it leads to heart issues and puts a drain on the hospital system. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. (in certain age groups) from the statistics I have seen. I don't think it is my right to infect someone else. You can be infected by unvaccinated or unvaxxed. Makes no difference. I have never had COVID (as far as I know). You say you have. You have been a greater danger to the community than me.
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If a woman doesn't want to have a kid then that is nothing to do with me. Really between her and the father.
You had COVID. You possibly gave it to others. I have never had it is so I could never have given it anyone. When I go out, I social distance, wash hands, wear a mask. Seems maybe like you didn't?
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Vaccinated can pass on the rona. You got tested because you were symptomatic, no? Therefore, for a period you were quite possibly spreading it. Do you have repressed guilt? You shouldn't. It isn't your fault.
Again, I have no opinion of abortion.
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She has Stage 4 cancer. But as Omicron delays her surgery, all she can do is wait and worry
Since Cassandra Di Maria stopped chemotherapy, she has had her surgery delayed three times, and now has no date for when it can be performed.
Jeremy Nuttall
By Jeremy NuttallVancouver Bureau
As she waits for word on when she may be able to get into surgery, Cassandra Di Maria worries the cancer inside her is growing.
The 30-year-old Woodbridge resident has Stage 4 colon cancer and stopped chemotherapy in October after 17 rounds of treatment. She was expecting to undergo an operation to remove a tumour from an ovary as well as spots, including on her liver.
After the operation, Di Maria planned to focus on her recovery and organize her wedding, scheduled for later this year.
Then Omicron came to Canada, filling hospitals to the brim with COVID-19 patients, and dealing a vicious blow to Di Maria’s hopes of leaving her cancer in the past and moving on with her life.
“I’m young and I’m trying to do a lot of things and this has affected that,” she said. “I was excited to get this over with and start living my life again, but, no.”
Since Di Maria stopped chemotherapy, she has had her surgery delayed three times, and now has no date for when it can be performed. In the meantime, she said, she hasn’t been able to book a scan to see if her cancer is spreading.
An email from Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where her surgery is to be performed, specifically said the delay is due to the “situation with COVID” and that she would be contacted as soon as they know when they can set a new date.
Not starting chemo again, in case a slot for her surgery comes up, Di Maria sits, waits and worries the progress she has made fighting cancer since November 2020 might be undone.
“Being off chemo gives the cancer the opportunity to possibly spread further,” she said. “I’m concerned that things have gotten worse since my last treatment.”
As Di Maria calls on “all parties involved” to rethink how they are balancing resources in the midst of COVID, her plight is not unique.
A number of surgeries have been cancelled across Ontario as hospitals struggle to make room for COVID patients and the Omicron variant ravages the province. As of Friday, Ontario had more than 3,800 people in hospital with the illness...
Editor’s note: Late last week, a patient advocate working on Cassandra Di Maria’s case was told a date had now been set for surgery. On Saturday morning, Di Maria found out that, barring any further delays, her operation will take place on Jan. 26
Full article here:
[www.thestar.com]
(Context: a 1-2 month break from Chemo is generally required before surgery can be performed.)