Australia is retarded. Just to add a bit more to this story: https://www.foxsports.com.au/tennis/australian-open/australian-open-2022-novak-djokovic-covid19-exemption-vaccine-status-unvaccinated-melbourne-airport-victorian-government-scott-morrison/news-story/66f00425dfc6e034142b04e028fa47ec

Now it can be revealed that his likely reason for requesting an exemption was having contracted Covid-19 twice within the past six months.

It is not clear whether this was sufficient to secure entry under federal guidelines.

Now, in a 2GB segment on Wednesday afternoon, 9 News political editor Chris O’Keefe revealed Tennis Australia had approached the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) regarding Djokovic’s “natural immunity”, only to have it knocked back.

“I’m told on good authority that Tennis Australia asked ATAGI, the federal taskforce on vaccination, if ‘natural immunity can work in place of two doses of vaccine’,” O’Keefe said.

“This is from ATAGI to Tennis Australia when they asked if someone had caught Covid, if that could be in place of them being fully vaccinated: ‘Natural immunity from the past infection is recognised as fully vaccinated in several European countries, but ATAGI also notes the challenge of confirming past infection and uncertainty with regards to the duration of protection.’

“So it’s recognised in several European countries, not recognised in Australia.