The global controversy over the Serbian tennis champ reflects rising government impatience with vaccine hold-outs who threaten the world’s ability to handle pandemics.
Novak Djokovic may yet defend his Australian Open tennis title, but he’s not the freedom fighter many of his supporters believe.
From vaccine and mask mandates at Broadway shows in New York to school closures in Italy, life as we once knew it is in disarray. Leaders who’d hoped that vaccine rollouts would guide their countries back to normalcy are increasingly frustrated with the few who are not only opposed,Advertisement Policies that exist in various countries of excluding those who’ve chosen not to be vaccinated from places like restaurants and public buildings have been labelleda decidedly off-key reference to South Africa’s policy in the mid-20th century of separating people by race. But the difference is stark — individuals have a choice of getting immunised or not. That wasn’t the case for victims of decades of legalised racist oppression.
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