This is a very divisive subject among professional athletes. Vaccination against Covid-19, which has become essential in most sports, continues to fuel the controversy. If the tennis star Novak Djokovic finds himself in the heart of a huge controversy, other professionals join him by sharing their fear or disapproval of the vaccines released in recent months. Among them we find Waisea Nayacalevu, the Stade Français rugby player.
The only player in the Parisian workforce to still not be vaccinated, the 31-year-old three-quarters assumes his choice decried in the midst of a pandemic and while Omicron is igniting contaminations all over the world. Asked by The Parisian on his decision, the antivax man wants to be very clear. “You have the right to think what you want, I have the right to think what I want. It is my opinion. I don’t believe in the vaccine, that’s all bullshit “, he says, before explaining what makes him say this: “The proof: you can still have the Covid-19 and distribute it, so I don’t really see how it is effective”. Like many, he is not informed and completely forgets that the vaccine is not intended to prevent contamination but to block a serious form that can send people to a hospital bed. The recently dead Bogdanoff brothers had also chosen not to rely on vaccines …
We are facing a scam, a huge manipulation
Obviously very suspicious of vaccines, Waisea Nayacalevu is clearly not far from the worst conspiracy theories. “We are facing a scam, a huge manipulation. It’s a matter of common sense, we have to look around us and see how this disease evolves. The media give figures on the number of unvaccinated in the hospital, but you cannot verify for yourself “, he asserts. All he has to do is visit the overwhelmed caregivers if he wants to be able to see the facts on the ground with his own eyes.
A situation that worries his club as well as his teammates. “In the locker room, other players told me it was dangerous. But I tell them to look at the situation around us. We must not just follow what we are told “, he replies.
I still hope this law will not pass
A very complex situation, as much for the player as for his club, which, with the imminent arrival of the vaccination pass, may be very annoyed … “I still hope this law will not pass. If so, I will probably get vaccinated so that I can continue playing rugby in this country. But this is my last option “, adds Waisea Nayacalevu.
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