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F1 set to make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for 2022

by Fergal Walsh
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F1 set to make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for 2022
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Formula 1 is set to introduce mandatory Covid-19 vaccines for all personnel for the 2022 season.

This year, the sport is facing a record-breaking 23-race calendar, in what will be the third season since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

BBC Sport reports that all personnel entering the paddock during a grand prix weekend must be fully vaccinated this.

The measure will mean a relaxation of Covid restrictions within F1, and the sport will also respect vaccine and other Covid policies of each national government from event to event.

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The report also states that the mandate is not set to disrupt any of the drivers’ ability to compete, as all are understood to be vaccinated.

As well as drivers, the requirement for vaccination will extend to team members, media, hospitality workers and guests present at races.

The FIA will consider an exemption on a case-by-case basis, but only if the person in question agrees to a stricter testing regime than those vaccinated. In those who have been vaccinated, the frequency of testing will be reduced.

A number of F1 drivers have already contracted Covid-19 since the pandemic began, with Sergio Perez, Lance Stroll, Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, Pierre Gasly, Kimi Raikkonen and Nikita Mazepin all testing positive.

However, those who have recovered from Covid-19 will not be granted access to the paddock if they are unvaccinated.

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Comments 9

  1. askeptic says:
    3 years ago

    Vaccination after an infection has been shown to be problematic as some of the vaccines seem to be conflict prone with natural anti-bodies. How many times do we hear reports of new cases and resulting hospitalizations regarding people who had the infection and survived, but subsequently got vaccinated due to regulations/requirements?
    Plus, young men seem to be prone to heart problems in these circumstances, sometimes fatally so.

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    • Dami says:
      3 years ago

      Reinfection may occur in anyone, vaccinated or not, but both the severity of illness and the likelihood of transmitting the virus to others are reduced by the vaccines. A study revealed that over a quarter of the recovered covid patients who were tested twenty-eight days after the end of infection displayed no antibodies at all. Additionally, in all groups rates of myocarditis caused by the virus are notably higher than rates of myocarditis caused by the vaccines.

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      • Enzo says:
        3 years ago

        Bullshit. Stop watching the mainstream news or listening to mainstream science. First of all, it’s not possible to design a safe and effective vaccine in the small amount of time they did, which is why the vaccinated are literally dropping like flies because the side-effects so are incredibly dangerous, and often also deadly.

        Second, the majority of people these days that test “positive” are vaccinated (and these tests are also bogus and give false positives so hospitals can charge crazy amounts of money to insurance companies just for dealing with a “positive” patient). Most the unvaccinated people I know (who do not even wear masks) have not been sick, while some of the vaccinated ones I know have suffered from serious side effects like blood clots and random heart issues shortly after getting jabbed.

        Third, the actual “Covid-19” mortality rate is so low there isn’t even a need for a vaccine.

        Here’s a hot tip: if you are young and healthy, stop putting garbage from big pharma in your body. It almost always works itself out and you will end up getting sick a lot less in the first place.

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        • Gloria Sole says:
          3 years ago

          Well said .
          United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 covers most the crimes against humanity that have been perpertrated in the last two years.
          Legally all these so called mandates come under that Criminal code and those and even those who are just following orders are still guilty .
          There is strong case for prosecution to the full extent of the law .
          This includes death .
          The Fia or who ever is mandating this is on very dodgy ground from a legal point of view.
          And being unaware is no defence .

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          • Gloria Sole says:
            3 years ago

            Sorry that post came out as Enzo not me.

        • Dami says:
          3 years ago

          The vaccine was not developed in a small amount of time. The carrier for the vaccine has been in use and proven safe for well over ten years, while research on other, related, coronaviruses has been going on for decades. The time to specify a vaccine for this particular covid virus was able to be condensed by carrying out several development and testing stages simultaneously, where they would normally be done consecutively, to expedite results due to the pandemic situation.

          I am honestly bewildered by the vacuous gullibility of some people nowadays, who swallow whole the meanderings of a bunch of social media whores with no medical knowledge whatsoever, merely a desire to get themselves noticed and create mischief. Had Twitter been around a century ago I suspect we would still be living with smallpox but without penicillin.

          When I read the drivel with which people like yourself come out, I dread to think where the world is headed over the coming years. When people are accepting unsubstantiated conspiracy theories over established fact, stupid just doesn’t cover it.

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  2. Gloria Sole says:
    3 years ago

    No doubt we will be subjected to some Jabbed lives matter on the grid T shirts .
    How about Pfizer team Williams or Astrazeneca gp of Baku while they are at it.
    Or a pit stop with oxygen and defribulation demanded by the boffins back in Woking on lap 15 for optimum race pace.

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    • J. Ying says:
      3 years ago

      Don’t Ferrari played their part in the plandemic by manufacturing parts for ventilators. And let’s not forget roughly 90% of the “Covid” patients on a ventilator has died.

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  3. Enzo says:
    3 years ago

    Random chest pains and heart attacks will undoubtedly spice up the on-track action.

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