# Djokovic's Medical Exemption **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** tennis\ **Created:** [January 5, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283 "2022-01-05T21:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/281 "2022-01-28T11:25:45Z")
This is confirmation of what Der Spiegel was saying on Jan 11. > **[Novak Djoković: Were the Results of His Positive PCR Test Manipulated?](https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/novak-djokovic-were-the-results-of-his-positive-pcr-test-manipulated-a-cf3e7344-e98f-4fc3-8bb3-7727d4795e97)** > > Tennis star Novak Djoković claims that he tested positive for the coronavirus on Dec. 16. But the digital test result suggests otherwise. This and a suspected false statement could create new visa problems for the athlete in Australia. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/282 "2022-01-28T11:26:38Z")
Are we sure that the code is generated when the test is processed and not when the test kit a manufactured/distributed. e.g. a barcode on the collection phial? If so you might expect a correlation between test dates and code as earlier tests tend to be performed with older kits, but you could not rely on it being so. Still, right to be suspicious. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/283 "2022-01-28T11:31:37Z")
No not sure. From the article: > The confirmation codes in all cases [of 56 examples]…[snip]…showed that the earlier the test result date, the lower the confirmation code. > > The only outlier of all the confirmation codes we’ve plotted was Mr Djokovic’s positive test on 16 December. So it’s possible there is another explanation. However you’d think that if there was a good reason for the discrepancy his team would be eager to explain it. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/284 "2022-01-28T11:48:09Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > So it’s possible there is another explanation. However you’d think that if there was a good reason for the discrepancy his team would be eager to explain it. Exactly, he (and his advisors) surely can’t be blind to how bad this looks for them. If there were a simple explanation for an anomaly that made me look bad I’d bust a gut to find out why and make my case. _ **if** _ there were a simple explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/285 "2022-01-28T12:44:42Z")
I believe I offered such an explanation back in **[post 267](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/267).** ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/286 "2022-01-28T12:54:13Z")
I think he’d gain a lot more respect if he did actually come forward and say “sorry, I’ve been a colossal fucknut” ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/287 "2022-01-28T15:36:59Z")
Being a colossal fucknut makes seeing the wisdom in fessing up to being a colossal fucknut unlikely ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/288 "2022-01-28T15:58:13Z")
I’ll be cheering for Nadal to win the Australian Open championship, just for the extra bitterness it’d give Djokovic. For reaching 21 Grand Slams first. And because it’s the ΛΟ, which Nadal has only won once, and represents almost half of Djokovic’s Grand Slams. How do you say “schadenfreude” in Serbia? > **[Men's Tennis: Players with the Most Grand Slam Tournaments Won](https://www.landoftennis.com/statistics_men/grand_slam_most_titles.htm)** > > List of winners of the four Grand Slam tournaments with totals and details, from the players who won the most titles to those who won at least one. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/289 "2022-01-28T16:22:23Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > How do you say “schadenfreude” in Serbia? Probably “schadenfreude”, since it’s not an English word to begin with. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/290 "2022-01-28T16:28:26Z")
> [@QMatic](#): > > Are we sure that the code is generated when the test is processed and not when the test kit a manufactured/distributed. e.g. a barcode on the collection phial? Have you looked at the image in the article linked above? This is 7 numbers presented at the very top of the document that certifies the result. That’s not where you’d expect the barcode for a test kit to be reported, and the 7 numbers does not have the format of a barcode. It looks _exactly_ as though the computer system is assigning consecutive numerical reference numbers to the test _results_ it is reporting. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/291 "2022-01-28T16:32:04Z")
I had previously assumed that Jokeovic would just show up at the next tournament with a state-facilitated faked vaccination certification, and that there would be nothing the authorities could really do to challenge it. Perhaps this does change things, immigration authorities now have foundation to take a much harder line. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/292 "2022-01-28T17:22:40Z")
> QuantBioRes says it designs treatments for viral diseases based on electromagnetic frequency Makes sense to me. It seems reasonable that all viruses would have unique resonant frequencies that cause their “free electrons along the protein” to blow themselves up. For COVID, it’s 97.3 Mhz. If you tune a portable radio to 97.3 on your FM dial and hold it real close to your chest, it not only cures the COVID, but you get to enjoy “Today’s Best Music – all hits, all the time”! I checked out the “relevant publications” listed on their website. There are a handful of articles, all of them written either by one quack (whom we might call the Primary Quack, or PQ) or by the PQ and the same gang of secondary quacks. The alleged journals are either poorly cited with incorrect names, or are low-grade copycat journals. In some cases I couldn’t find the alleged article in either of them. The CEO, Ivan Loncarevic, appears to be a legitimate scientist, but his legitimate publications appear to have nothing to do with this quackery. I’ve seen this before in climate science, where legitimately credentialed (if not necessarily good) scientists have gone off the rails and become denialists. As for the company itself, the “News” section of the website has nothing earlier than November, 2020 – and none of the links work! No-vax apparently made his 80% investment in June, 2020, which, it turns out, was when this outfit was founded. It would not surprise me if this entire operation was a deliberate scam (as opposed to just ignorant quackery) set up solely for the purpose of fleecing No-vax, but with just enough hocus-pocus to provide plausible deniability. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/293 "2022-01-30T14:20:19Z")
Nadal wins the Australian Open in an incredible match, for his 21st major! 🏆 I’ll bet Djokovic is busy kicking things and screaming right now… and blaming everybody but himself. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/294 "2022-01-30T14:35:56Z")
Tapas restaurants in Serbia are all boarded up? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/295 "2022-02-10T16:44:09Z")
Not cool news: > **[Novak Djokovic on entry list for Indian Wells tournament](https://www.sportsnet.ca/tennis/article/novak-djokovic-entry-list-indian-wells-tournament/)** > > Top-ranked Novak Djokovic is on the entry list for the BNP Paribas Open in California, where the Serb would face a vaccine mandate. Coulda been stated earlier in thread, but definitely bears repeating: > [@](#): > > Neither the ATP nor WTA tours require players to be vaccinated against COVID-19. However, non-U.S. citizens must be fully vaccinated to travel to the U.S. by plane, according to the CDC. Travellers are required to show a negative COVID-19 test result or documentation of recovery from COVID-19 when travelling to the U.S. by air. Limited exceptions apply. I find it hard to imagine that he would dig in his heels _this much_ on this stupidity that he’s actually willing to screw his career over like this, but I guess stranger things can be conjured. 🤷‍♂️ (Cartman, bemused.) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/296 "2022-02-10T18:04:22Z")
He might’ve got vaccinated. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/297 "2022-02-10T18:18:51Z")
my post to be disregarded ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/298 "2022-02-10T18:34:03Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > He might’ve got vaccinated. If it was that easy he would have done it for the Aussie Open. I think the crazy is sometimes overpowering. Kind of like with Aaron Rodgers. There is no real reason for them not to be vaxxed, other than the crazy. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/299 "2022-02-10T20:03:38Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > He might’ve got vaccinated. No-Vax Jokeovic? Vaccinated? No way! This is the guy who invested a significant fortune into a scam that claims to cure COVID with “electromagnetic resonant frequencies”. Remember at the beginning of the 20th century when all manner of diseases could be cured by the magic of the newly discovered “radio waves”? Well, it’s back! What I suspect will happen is that he’ll show up in California bearing a Genuine Authentic Totally For Real Certificate of COVID Vaccination from Serbia, personally signed by Aleksandar Vučić. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283/300 "2022-02-10T20:23:02Z")
At this point, I’m not sure I’d trust Djokovic if he came with any ‘evidence’ he’d been vaccinated. Serbia is willing to do pretty much anything for him. > [@wolfpup](#): > > Well, it’s back! It went away?! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/djokovics-medical-exemption/957283.md?page=16)