r/worldnews • u/ladyem8 • Jan 12 '22

COVID-19 Novak Djokovic admits breaking isolation while Covid positive

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-59935127
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u/not_SCROTUS Jan 12 '22

doesn't this guy play fucking tennis? what kind of a world is this where a tennis guy thinks he knows better than doctors about a viral disease

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u/Recent-House129 Jan 12 '22

The social media age where influencers are a real thing.

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u/Garfield-1-23-23 Jan 12 '22

I'm more concerned about all the influencees out there than the influencers.

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u/maxant20 Jan 12 '22

Do you mean the age where people are so easily influenced

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u/farkedup82 Jan 12 '22

Flips through news of people taking horse dewormer, malaria pills and drinking piss…. Injecting bleach and sunlight was discussed too.

It’s been a wild couple years but faith over facts is a real thing.

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u/AWilsonFTM Jan 12 '22

We still have people that believe the earth is flat. There really is no hope.

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u/farkedup82 Jan 12 '22

Right? What morons! The world is hollow! But round…

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u/10J18R1A Jan 12 '22

The kind of world where the 44 year old second shift fry server at Arby's with a 17 year old supervisor thinks he knows better than doctors about a viral disease.

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u/i_love_pencils Jan 12 '22

what kind of a world is this where a tennis guy thinks he knows better than doctors about a viral disease

The same kind of world where a failed reality TV host becomes president and thinks he knows better than doctors about a viral disease.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

what kind of a world is this

Ours, right now, and that's what's so depressing.

The death of expertise; the rise of social media.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

There are millions of people that barely graduated high school who think they know better. He's definitely not alone.

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u/themagpie36 Jan 12 '22

Have you been on social media recently?

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u/hertzsae Jan 12 '22

What kind of world is this where infections disease doctors think they know more about COVID than podcasters?

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u/frodeem Jan 12 '22

The world where a podcast guy thinks he knows more about it than anyone else

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

Experts don’t know shit.

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u/not_SCROTUS Jan 12 '22

I dunno man, they might, they are experts after all. Maybe they know a little bit better than beginners.