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Re: Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

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Post by interactinghash »

shtopointo wrote: post #93
MomoXenosaga wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Famous/rich people don't have to follow the same rules as the rest of us obviously.

Problem is – he did follow "the rules". He just had root access at the gov't COVID testing system level. Here's a separate thought experiment too: We've all heard stories of people faking COVID tests. E.g. people don't want to pay the price to get tested, or they can't be bothered to go get tested, so they grab an old covid test, change the date and then go to the airport. The airline representative can only do a vis…

I'm going to stop paying my taxes, because some other people also do not do it. If the IRS goes after me, it's discrimination, because they could've gone after someone else instead :)

doesn't make that much sense, does it?

Re: Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

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Post by humanwhosits »

mfer wrote: post #120
jmcs wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He got an exemption the Victoria state rules, this is the same as you getting a paper from Florida saying you can travel freely there and trying to enter the US based on that paper.

His exemption was a process provided by the Australian Open tournament. More than twenty people applied for it and only a handful got the exemption. The process they outlined was a blind process (those evaluating the applications did not know who the players were) and two stage. It's not like he tried to cheat the tournament or Australia with this. He was following a provided process. Note, this is separate from any…

> provided by the Australian Open tournament

They're not the Australian federal government though, so it's moot.

Re: Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

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Post by jablan »

elzbardico wrote: post #83
jablan wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering his god-like status in Serbia, this wouldn't be hard to pull off at all.

Yeah, because every poor country must be like Elbonia with completely ignorant and corrupt public servants. /s

This would be not the first case where the rules are "bent" for the sake of Djokovic family: https://birn.rs/teniski-centar-novak-do-novih-kvadrata-uz-us... (unfortunately I couldn't find the source in English; in short, they got some premium Belgrade land, which was initially planned for a public park, for their tennis academy)

Re: Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

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Post by aix1 »

elzbardico wrote: post #83
jablan wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering his god-like status in Serbia, this wouldn't be hard to pull off at all.

Yeah, because every poor country must be like Elbonia with completely ignorant and corrupt public servants. /s

Serbia is ranked #94 on the Corruption Perception Index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

Re: Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

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Post by mdoms »

xienze wrote: post #64
gertrunde wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd imagine the same reason why anyone runs an international tennis competition? Although in this case at least they've been doing it for 117 years... so they do have precedent on their side.

I think the parent comment’s question is more along the lines of “if Australia is so deathly afraid of Covid, why are they hosting an international sporting event at this particular time?”

They're taking suitable precautions, such as requiring entrants are fully vaccinated.

Re: Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

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Post by seanalltogether »

https://twitter.com/blokovi/status/1480945535620108296

Apparently the qr code (and related timestamps) are generated when the result document is downloaded, not when the test is performed. Der Spiegel should have confirmed their theory with other serbians who have access to test results.

Re: Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

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Post by chrisseaton »

mdoms wrote: post #165
xienze wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the parent comment’s question is more along the lines of “if Australia is so deathly afraid of Covid, why are they hosting an international sporting event at this particular time?”

They're taking suitable precautions, such as requiring entrants are fully vaccinated.

> such as requiring entrants are fully vaccinated

That's not what they're doing, which is the whole point of this story and controversy.

But anyway a tennis competition should be the very bottom of the list of anyone's priorities.

Re: Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

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Post by aix1 »

tppiotrowski wrote: post #13

I just recently learned about the OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) community but it seems like a powerful force for validating information online.

I really enjoyed We Are Bellingcat (a book by Eliot Higgins) as well as the Bellingcat documentary:

https://www.bellingcatfilm.com/

Re: Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?

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Post by hanoz »

TylerLives wrote: post #124
hanoz wrote: post #114

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Is there any reason to assume this timestamp represents the time the test was taken, rather than, say, the time the certificate was generated?

We need someone from Serbia who has done this test to verify.

Meanwhile let's all accuse him of being a dirty cheat no matter how implausible such a potentially ruinous fraud on its inevitable discovery.

After all the man is guilty of covid wrongthink, so who knows what depths he'd sink to.

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