In his interview with the BBC, Novak Djokovic spoke in such reasoned, thoughtful tones that it was easy to overlook the callousness of his stance (to refrain from receiving the COVID vaccine). His defense was all about his “freedom,” as an “elite athlete,” to decide what he wants to put into his body; never was any mention made of his responsibility as a citizen of the planet. Already by the second utterance of “elite” I was hearing instead the word “selfish.”
