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Classical Liberal
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How the tennis champ stuck it to the lockdown elites.
Having been frozen out of some grand slams for his apparently ‘arrogant’ refusal to get the jab, Djokovic has now stormed back in to remind yesteryear’s petty Covid tyrants of his greatness – and their folly.
Under Joe Biden’s scientifically questionable ban on unvaxxed non-Americans entering the country, Djokovic was locked out of the United States for almost two years.
It was an unnecessarily harsh regime that called into question the lockdown elites’ claim that they were just ‘following the science’. What is scientific about forbidding entry to people who will have solid immunity to that virus you’re worried about? Especially a super-fit 35-year-old – Djokovic’s age in 2022 – who is about as far from a plague-carrying rat as you can get. Zinberg says Biden’s scientifically iffy restriction on unvaxxed non-Americans was driven by political concerns rather than health ones. Determined to keep vaccination levels high, the administration ‘refused to acknowledge the existence of natural immunity following infection’.
This is what makes Djokovic’s victory yesterday taste so sweet: the man ridiculously treated as a health threat has returned to demonstrate his prowess before the world. The tennis champ whose exclusion in 2022 made no scientific or moral sense has emerged victorious in 2023. And of course there’s the delicious irony that Moderna is one of the sponsors of this year’s Open. And that Djokovic’s winning forehand was named the ‘Moderna Shot of the Day’. You don’t have to be an anti-vaxxer who spends every day babbling online about ‘experimental gene therapy’ and barking at ‘the sheeple’ who got jabbed to think it’s funny that probably the best-known unvaxxed man in the world is now being publicly praised by a vax-maker.
America and Australia’s irrational bans on Djokovic – and on countless other unvaxxed souls – are a reminder of officialdom’s rashness in the Covid years. Lingering travel bans, a reimagining of the individual as a threat to ‘health and good order’, the downplaying of scientific facts, the making examples of the ‘selfish’ who wanted to enjoy governance over their own bodies – it was this regime that was stupid and arrogant, not Djokovic’s longing to play tennis.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/09/11/djokovics-revenge/
How the tennis champ stuck it to the lockdown elites.
Having been frozen out of some grand slams for his apparently ‘arrogant’ refusal to get the jab, Djokovic has now stormed back in to remind yesteryear’s petty Covid tyrants of his greatness – and their folly.
Under Joe Biden’s scientifically questionable ban on unvaxxed non-Americans entering the country, Djokovic was locked out of the United States for almost two years.
It was an unnecessarily harsh regime that called into question the lockdown elites’ claim that they were just ‘following the science’. What is scientific about forbidding entry to people who will have solid immunity to that virus you’re worried about? Especially a super-fit 35-year-old – Djokovic’s age in 2022 – who is about as far from a plague-carrying rat as you can get. Zinberg says Biden’s scientifically iffy restriction on unvaxxed non-Americans was driven by political concerns rather than health ones. Determined to keep vaccination levels high, the administration ‘refused to acknowledge the existence of natural immunity following infection’.
This is what makes Djokovic’s victory yesterday taste so sweet: the man ridiculously treated as a health threat has returned to demonstrate his prowess before the world. The tennis champ whose exclusion in 2022 made no scientific or moral sense has emerged victorious in 2023. And of course there’s the delicious irony that Moderna is one of the sponsors of this year’s Open. And that Djokovic’s winning forehand was named the ‘Moderna Shot of the Day’. You don’t have to be an anti-vaxxer who spends every day babbling online about ‘experimental gene therapy’ and barking at ‘the sheeple’ who got jabbed to think it’s funny that probably the best-known unvaxxed man in the world is now being publicly praised by a vax-maker.
America and Australia’s irrational bans on Djokovic – and on countless other unvaxxed souls – are a reminder of officialdom’s rashness in the Covid years. Lingering travel bans, a reimagining of the individual as a threat to ‘health and good order’, the downplaying of scientific facts, the making examples of the ‘selfish’ who wanted to enjoy governance over their own bodies – it was this regime that was stupid and arrogant, not Djokovic’s longing to play tennis.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/09/11/djokovics-revenge/
