Happy Rosh Hodesh Elul From Unrepentant Screw Fauci Bari Weiss: Let Unvaccinated Novak Djokovic Infect the US Open! (8/28)
David Shasha
Unvaccinated Serbian Fascist Novak Djokovic is the Man of the Bari Weiss Moment!
This was a really big Bari Weiss Tikvah Alt-Right Trumpscum week.
We had her flipping the bird to the saintly Dr. Fauci in the DEATH SENTENCE manner:
https://groups.google.com/g/Davidshasha/c/_H17XTLrCIE
Because that is what you do.
She then went on to vigorously promote the Original Banana Republic AG and his Catholic Fascism:
https://groups.google.com/g/Davidshasha/c/LWG9ckHyuMg
Because that is what you do.
And as we were celebrating Shabbat and the new month of Elul, the month of repentance preceding the High Holy Days, she was working overtime to give us a wonderful ode to the deplorable unvaccinated Novak Djokovic:
https://www.commonsense.news/p/let-djokovic-play?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
The complete article by Trumpscum Vinay Prasad follows this note.
For those not familiar with the vile Prasad and his alliance with the Weiss “I am so over COVID” mishegas:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/NW5g_VKy-hs/m/Hn-VStYFCQAJ
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/C1kGaS7OKek/m/W3bYCLR5AQAJ
The following article from ESPN provides some background on the JOKER:
For those who might not be aware of it, Djokovic has been in the news for his alliance with Serbian Fascists:
The following article from Al Jazeera fills out the very ugly picture:
The complete article follows this note.
That means Djokovic is the perfect Common Sense hero!
He truly covers all the Right bases.
It is really impossible to make this stuff up, it is just how the sicksad warped mind of Weiss actually works.
David Shasha
Let Djokovic Play
By: Vinay Prasad
The credibility and legitimacy of public health demands two things. The rules have to make sense; they can’t be nakedly contradictory. And the rules have to benefit people. You can’t demand jumping through hoops merely for optics.
The treatment of the tennis star Novak Djokovic, who is officially blocked from competing in this year’s U.S. Open, set to begin on Monday, violates both. Keeping him from playing because he has not received a Covid-19 vaccine undermines the credibility of the White House, which set the policy, and public health more broadly. I’m saying this both as a Democrat and a doctor gravely concerned about eroded trust in our institutions.
Djokovic is one of the best tennis players of all time. He is currently vying for most majors of any champion (21 to date), competing with Rafael Nadal (22) and Roger Federer (20). But there will forever be an asterisk next to those comparisons because Djokovic is banned from entering the U.S. to compete in this year’s U.S. Open because of a byzantine rule that non-U.S. citizens cannot enter the country without proof of vaccination.
This rule makes no sense from a medical or public health standpoint.
Consider the facts. Djokovic is 35 years old, and he is in terrific health. He has had and recovered from Covid-19 twice. This—and the fact that current variants are less lethal than prior strains—means that Djokovic’s odds of doing well were he to get sick with Covid-19 again are remarkably good, and lower than his risk of seasonal influenza. If Djokovic gets a vaccine at this moment it would be against the ancestral, Wuhan strain of the coronavirus and there is no good evidence this would further improve his odds.
Now consider Djokovic’s risk to others. At least 140 million Americans have had and recovered from Covid-19 as of January (this number is higher today), and both vaccinated and unvaccinated can spread the disease. Data shows, when infected, that vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals shed virus at similar rates and for similar durations. Forcing Djokovic to get vaccinated won’t protect others. Sars-cov-2 will circulate in the United States for a thousand years whether we let Djokovic in, or keep him out forever.
Then, there are the absurd contradictions in our current rules. Unvaccinated American citizens can move freely in and out of the country without testing. Unvaccinated people can pack the stadium to watch this year’s U.S. Open, where face masks are optional. There is no vaccine or testing requirement to attend. Worst of all, Novak Djokovic competed in last year’s U.S. Open, where he made the finals before the travel rule barring his entry was in place.
Joe Biden, who made the rule that blocks Djokovic, has received four Covid-19 vaccine doses. He has had Covid-19 twice, and taken at least 2 courses of Paxlovid. His wife, first lady Jill Biden, has also had four vaccine doses, also had Covid-19 twice. Yet, for some reason, their concern is the Novak Djokovics of the world.
Some view Djokovic’s struggle as self imposed—that he’s an arrogant athlete who thinks he’s exempt from the herd. In all honesty, If I were him, I would have gotten the vaccine in early 2021 (as I did), prior to having had Covid-19. But Djokovic is entitled to make his choices about his body, and public health cannot infringe upon those choices unless the intrusion is justified by a clear and overwhelming benefit to others. That standard is simply not met.
In 2022, it is delusional to think that blocking Djokovic from coming to America serves any purpose other than shredding the last bits of trust and legitimacy public health has. Because of how the government has handled its response to Covid-19, many Americans will never trust the pronouncements of public health officials again. Before Covid-19, I would have tried to dissuade such individuals from this response. Now I can only say that I see their point.
Dr. Vinay Prasad’s last piece for Common Sense laid out ten lessons from the pandemic. You can listen to his episode of Honestly here.
From Common Sense with Bari Weiss, August 27, 2022
Djokovic pictured with ex-commander of feared paramilitary unit
Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic has been criticised over a photo showing him alongside a former commander of the notorious Drina Wolves paramilitary unit, which participated in the genocide against Bosniaks in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Images posted to Twitter on Sunday showed Djokovic sitting at a table next to Milan Jolovic, the former commander who goes by the nickname of “Legend”.
Many Serbs celebrate Jolovic for saving the life of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic during the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s.
The images of Djokovic were later published by local media.
In 2017, a UN court found Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general, guilty of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
The Drina Wolves was a military unit of the army of Republika Srpska, which participated in the mass killing of Bosniaks in Srebrenica, later deemed genocide by international courts.
During a recent visit to Bosnia, Djokovic was seen singing at a wedding with Bosnia’s Serb member of the presidency, Milorad Dodik, a well-known genocide denier who regularly advocates for the secession of Bosnia’s Serb-run entity, Republika Srpska, from the country.
Al Jazeera contacted Djokovic’s representatives for comment, but had not received any response at the time of publication.
Political scientist Jasmin Mujanovic wrote on Twitter that Djokovic is unlikely to lose any sponsorship deals as a result of his association with controversial figures.
“Bosnian Genocide denial and/or association with those involved in as much (including actual killings) gets you Nobel Prizes and keynote lectures not social ostracism,” Mujanovic wrote.
“For those keeping count, 0 is also how many sponsors he lost for posing with a liquor brand named after WWII Nazi collaborator Draza Mihailovic. Or when he received an award from the Republika Srpska entity government, past luminaries of which include genocidaires Milosevic, Mladic, Karadzic etc.”
Djokovic previously sparked controversy in 2020 when he accepted the Order of the Republika Srpska, presented by Dodik.
The award was reportedly for Djokovic’s work towards promoting tennis in Republika Srpska.
However, critics noted that previous awardees of the order have included convicted Serb war criminals such as Mladic, Radovan Karadzic, Momcilo Krajisnik, Biljana Plavsic, and the nationalist former president of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic.
“Djokovic could have been the greatest of all time, he could have represented the whole planet of sports and help out in a billion ways,” columnist Dragan Bursac wrote in a recent column for the Radio Sarajevo news website.
“Instead, he shares a decoration with war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, he sings in village weddings with the Dodiks and picnics with people who were in charge of organising [military] operations which led to the genocide.
“We can say then, that the world’s best tennis player, outside of the tennis court, is just like Vulin Aleksandar,” Bursac added, referring to the hawkish Serbian interior minister.
From Al Jazeera, September 21, 2021