Originally Posted by
Arapiles
It's interesting that quite a few of the comments in The Age (and no doubt in other news providers as well) refer to Australia being embarrassed or looking stupid. In point of fact the comments in, for example, The New York Times, have been overwhelmingly positive towards Australia - the general view is that Australia has done the right thing by cancelling Djokovic's visa and for requiring vaccination to enter our country. It appears that people in the USA are sick of their own anti-vax sportspeople and also think that too many rules are bent for people who are connected or famous.
But there's also another side to this - frankly, why should we care what others think? We should be doing what every other country in the world does and act in our own interests. To not do so is craven and smacks of the cultural cringe.
