NoVax Novac. January 2022

Guess what? I’m on Novac’s side. 

Novac Djokovic applied for an exemption to the vaccination mandate, in an anonymous submission overseen by a panel of six doctors, as well as the Victorian Department of Health. He was subsequently cleared to attend and play at the Australian Open. Novac applied for, and was granted, a Visa before he stepped onto any plane bound for Melbourne. He knows the rules. He’s no stranger to traveling to a foreign country. He’s done it before.

To me, if the above is true, and I’ve seen no evidence to the contrary, Novac’s detention is no more than political posturing by inept, directionless, bumbling and incompetent State and Federal Governments. 

Novac Djokovic is a political prisoner.

The reason that people are hating Novac right now is because of two reasons. Firstly, (unsurprisingly), because of inaccurate and inflammatory reporting by our pathetic legacy media. Secondly,  he has turned a mirror onto the Australian people. Novak has the guts to do what more than 90% of the Australian public don’t. He stood his ground.

Novac sees himself as an individual with unalienable birth rights. Whereas the majority of Australians have allowed themselves to be abused and have forfeited those same rights to authoritarian Governments and unaccountable health bureaucrats. And I think that we Australians are embarrassed to admit that.

Novak is living and earning his income on his own terms, while most Australians forfeited their rights and submitted to an endless regime of government mandated medical procedures, just so that they are allowed to work, provide, contribute and even socialise.

This is little more than another scare campaign. “If they can treat a famous and likable millionaire like Novac like this, what can they do to me?”

That the Government is now detaining other players, who have been in Australia for some time and who have already been playing under the same exemptions as Novac’s, is clear evidence that they have overstepped the mark with Novac’s detention. This is little more than a populist move by a floundering inept government facing defeat at an election later this year. 

UPDATE: 18th Jan 2022

So Novac Djokovic has been sent home under an order by Federal health minister, Alex Hawke. According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, Mr Hawke "concedes the unvaccinated Djokovic entered Australia with a valid medical exemption and poses a low risk of contracting the virus while in Australia and passing it on to  others due to his recent infection." Novac was deported  because of a "... risk by increasing anti-vax sentiment and disregard for Covid-19 rules". 

So nothing to do with health at all, then. He's out because not because he has broken any laws, but because he dared to make a stand for something he believes.

I've seen many comments on Social media cheering on this decision. If you are one of those people, I'd like to ask you a few questions:

Given that Novac was arrested upon his arrival because of his beliefs, I'll assume that you're OK with that. And I'll assume that you're OK with him being 'detained' overnight. I'll also assume that you are comfortable with the fact that he was arrested and detained a second time, even though a court of law found no wrong with Mr Djokovic's entry into Australia. 

Having said that, you must be feeling OK about a politician then finding another reason to send Novac home, and despite the earlier court ruling, arbitrarily exercising his power to do so. 

If you are comfortable about the above, are you comfortable about the same being applied to other visiting sports people? Footballers, Cricketers, Race Drivers. 

How about Australian Citizens? Are you OK with them being arrested because their ideas and conclusions are different to the Government narrative? If you are OK with their arrest, are you OK with their detainment? Are you OK being arrested a second time when a court sets them free? Are you OK with them being detained upon the whim of a government minister? 

Let's say that you're OK with these people being detained. Where should they be held? Obviously, prison isn't the correct place for them. After all, just like Novac, they haven't broken any actual laws. Perhaps we need to send them to a "camp"? Would you be OK with that?

Getting dangerous, isn't it.

Please. Think about what you are proclaiming. And be careful what you wish for. 

UPDATE: 22/01/2022
OK so it turns out I was correct. This from Mr Hawke, from the court documents:
"I consider that Mr Djokovic’s presence in Australia may pose a health risk to the Australian community, in that his presence in Australia may foster anti-vaccination sentiment leading to (a) other unvaccinated persons refusing to become vaccinated, (b) other unvaccinated persons being reinforced in their existing view not to become vaccinated, and/or (c) a reduction in the uptake of booster vaccines.
‘Specifically this may lead to one or more of the following: (i) an increase in anti-vaccination sentiment being generated in the Australian community, leading to others refusing to become vaccinated or refusing to receive a booster vaccine; and/or (ii) a reinforcing of the views of a minority in the Australian community who remain unvaccinated against Covid."
NOTHING mentioned to do with health or safety of Novak, players, officials or spectators.
It was a strategic political decision. Bastrardry.