I used to be a Nadal fan. It’s been many years now since an American man was competitive in tennis, and I was never really a Federer fan. I always found Djokovic annoying for various reasons.
Well since Djokovic showed intelligence and principle in refusing to get jabbed, and Nadal opened his mouth and spouted the idiocy he did about the “vaccines”, I’ve changed my mind on both counts. Nadal is a great tennis player, but I could always tell he wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Even though English is not his first language he’s known it for years, and yet he never sounded terribly bright in any of his interviews.
The fact that he’s had so many nagging injuries over his career also suggest that he’s not smart enough to figure out how to train and compete without hurting himself. As of now he is only 35 years old, and many athletes have been able to compete at the highest levels for years older than he is. Granted, it could be genetic limitations, but that answer would fly in the face of his abilities to some extent. In any event we don’t need to draw any conclusions about his intelligence and knowledge from his many injuries, we’ve got his stupid and horribly ignorant “vaccine” comments prior to the Australian open to confirm all we need to know.
“The only thing that I can say is I believe in what the people who know about medicine say, and if the people say that we need to get vaccinated, we need to get the vaccine. That’s my point of view,” said Nadal.
He continued: “I went through the Covid. I have been vaccinated twice. If you do this, you don’t have any problem playing here. That’s the only clear thing. The rest of the things, I don’t want to have or to give to you an opinion that I don’t have the whole information. The only clear thing for me is if you are vaccinated, you can play in the Australian Open and everywhere, and the world in my opinion has been suffering enough to not follow the rules.”
So let me translate that to capture what Nadal is really saying:
NADAL: I blindly trust the people pushing the “vaccines”. I have no clue at all about all the evidence showing that they don’t work. I have no clue at all that they are the most dangerous “vaccines” in history with more severe side effects and more deaths than all other actual vaccines COMBINED going back over 30 years. I have no clue at all that I and the other competitors here at the tournament, thanks to our ages, high levels of fitness, and thus lack of any of the comorbidities found in about 95% of people who die of Corona, have less risk of dying from Corona than we do from traveling to tournaments every year. So therefore I have no f-ing clue at all that there is absolutely no reason on earth for anyone to be forcing us to get jabbed, and in fact there are mountains of evidence that we should not be getting these fake “vaccines” at all.
So when I see that Nadal just had some breathing problems and lost in the finals at Indian Wells, much like the headline above, I’m short on sympathy. Really, really short on sympathy. In fact I have the opposite of sympathy. I say it’s karma.
Click on the picture above to go to the Gateway Pundit article. GP does not directly attribute Nadal’s breathing problem to the fact he got the jab, but I am. As shown in the picture, GP embeds a YouTube video of Nadal’s press conference after the loss. The direct link to YouTube is here, and I’ve cued it up time wise to save you some time. While he mentions the breathing problems and pain earlier on, it’s just past 5 minutes into the six minute plus video that he gives the best details.
He says it feels like a needle all the time, and he adds that he felt dizzy. The cover story now is that Nadal has a cracked rib. Apparently this comes just from a Nadal tweet. I don’t know if a doctor has come out to make this claim.
Having played many different sports, and having had broken ribs a few years ago, here’s what I do know. An extremely fit athlete, in fact one of the best in the world, cracking a rib in a non contact sport makes no sense to me. Think about the impacts in football, and even basketball for that matter. I played basketball for many years, including when I was older than Nadal, and I always liked to physically move other guys out of the way to get rebounds. I took elbows to the chest many times, guys banging into me with their backs, etc.
And I also played plenty of tackle football with no pads. I got “the wind” knocked out of me a multiple times, had guys land on me, had bigger guys run into me, etc., and never broke a rib. In the NFL where men take the hardest hits to the upper body anywhere in the world, yes of course broken ribs happen, but they aren’t that common even there.
When I cracked 3 ribs a few years ago I was in my mid 50s, and fell while dune surfing onto some hard sand. I fell directly onto my left rib cage as I was going about 20 miles per hour down a steep dune. It was extremely painful. While “the wind” was violently expelled from my chest and I had trouble getting it back in for a few minutes, I don’t recall any dizziness. A couple weeks later I visited a doctor who was also acted as a team physician for an NFL football team, and he told me as soon as I felt like I was ready, I could start riding my bike again. Just don’t fall off the bike.
I’m too old for tackle football and really for any competitive basketball now too, so I put in thousands of miles on the bike every year. My short rides are typically at least 20 miles, and my long rides are in the upper 30s miles. I don’t piddle around at 8 or 10 MPH either, and I don’t have any eBikes. On my road bike I am often above 20 MPH on flat ground, so of course this means I couldn’t have any breathing issues or I would not be able to go that fast or that far.
When I started riding while I still had the broken ribs, I had no breathing problems and no dizziness. Taking really deep breaths caused some pain, and laughing was worse, but I never had any dizziness from lack of oxygen. If I had felt any dizziness while riding the bike I would have stopped riding immediately. Back then if I had fallen off or crashed the rib injury could have been much worse, or I could have been killed by one of the idiot drivers who think it’s perfectly safe to treat cyclists just like other vehicles.
As if cyclists have a multi ton metal shell around them, as if they have seat belts, air bags, and a head rest to stop the backward movement of their head. And as if cyclists are never going to have a flat or encounter anything else that might make them swerve into your lane at all. If you’re not getting WAY over for cyclists, or slowing WAY down if you can’t get way over, you’re one of the idiot drivers. But I digress.
While I had no troubles getting plenty of oxygen even on strenuous bike rides, for many more weeks and months I did have problems with certain movements. There is no way in hell I would have been playing tennis. Go watch the video of the final, where in a hopeful sign an American won for the first time in 21 years, and see Nadal fling his arms and twist his torso rapidly as he plays. That’s what tennis players do. I find it hard to believe that he could have a cracked rib and be able to do that. Especially if he cracked it playing tennis.
That’s the story anyway. He had to have cracked it in the previous match the night before. He said it happened at the end of that semifinal match. And it’s safe to assume he didn’t play some tackle football after that match. So how did he crack a rib playing tennis, and how could he possibly play another match using the same motions that caused the break???
Most of us have strained or otherwise injured something by playing sports, by lifting something, by overdoing some exercise, etc. And when we do, it almost always means we can’t do that same thing for a while. If you strain your back lifting, for example, lifting anything else that same way that is anywhere near that same weight or heavier, and the pain is going to be much worse.
So while of course there is some chance that Nadal somehow injured himself and that’s what caused his breathing problems, I’ve got 50 bucks that says Nadal has breathing issues due to the “vaccine” he got, and he’s been advised to tell a cover story. All kinds of similar stories of very fit athletes suddenly having breathing problems, heart problems, and even dying have been censored or suppressed already. And in the vast majority of those cases no one is discussing whether the “vaccines” could have caused the problems, let alone actually performing autopsies or other relevant tests for those still alive and then reporting the results back to the public.
Factor in Nadal’s stupid and horribly ignorant comments about Djokovic back in January and you know he’s got all the reasons in the world to go along with a cover story in his case.
Change my mind.
Some excellent comments at this link:
https://www.sportskeeda.com/tennis/news-i-wonder-much-bill-gates-will-pay-rafael-nadal-shut-sudden-chest-problem-fans-twitter-react-adversely-spaniard-s-recent-health-concerns