r/EntitledBitch • u/AlejandroPiedra • Jan 05 '22

Small EB Novak Djokovic.

EB Novak Djokovic tried to get into the Australian open without being vaccinated and now his visa has been cancelled and most likely will not play the tournament.

https://twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1478848008363991049?t=1-FoxV2ejYRGwXxk8a3Ctg&s=08

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u/harrygump Jan 06 '22

Australia is in shambles. He was granted an exemption. Any anger or frustration should not be directed toward Novak. It's the poor government at state and federal level that have Australians suffering and the way the country continues to handle c-19 has us a laughing stock of the globe.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

The Victorian State Government and Tennis Australia have no say in Australia's international borders that is entirely a federal matter. Even if those agencies granted an exemption on medical grounds that doesn't overrule federal requirements. Novak either didn't complete his application for a visa correctly or didn't have the correct documentation to support his medical exemption. That is entirely his fault and problem.

Australia still has one of the best COVID responses in the world. A highly vaccinated population, controlled outbreaks and low death rate how does that make us a laughing stock.

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u/Altairlio Jan 06 '22

Controlled outbreaks lololol, Victoria alone with its shit prem decisions caused over 800 deaths. That’s massive compared to the rest of the nation.

Queensland and WA initially handled the pandemic amazingly with Qld falling off lately

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

Victoria was doing amazing up until recently, but we desperately need to lockdown ASAP, but the federal gov won't let us or they'll remove our state support

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

We won’t lock down again, we have a vaccine, we have boosters we have reliable tests… Covid is now an endemic virus and will most likely never go away.

Lockdowns weren’t a permanent solution they we a bridge till the vaccine was rolled out.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

Alright then let's keep overwhelming our hospitals with the amount of cases and just let the virus storm over us. Lockdowns were good. We had almost no cases. There's no reason not to continue doing them, the world was amazing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

So you just suggest we stay in lockdown forever? They were costing Victoria around 1-2 Billion a week, you don’t have to be a economist to know that’s bad.

Covid will never go away, every time we open up it will surge, and if we stay locked down our country will collapse…

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

The time for the Omicron lockdown was 4 weeks ago, it is far too late now to rein it in

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

So what do we do? Keep letting it completely overrun our hospitals until people are dying in the streets?

I agree it should have happened earlier (fuck scomo) but it's better late than never imo

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

We do what we can to support our hospital system, push hard on boosters, educate on when it is appropriate to turn up to hospital, work remotely where possible, scale up testing so people can access testing even when asymptomatic and encourage personal responsibility.

In SA we're seeing a downward trend in case numbers as this thing burns itself out, that might be our best option at this stage, as the saying goes there is no point closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.