Washington D.C.’s anti-vaccine mandate rally was marked by last year’s front-line and essential workers, as well as first responders who objected to mandatory COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
QUICK FACTS:
- Thousands gathered for Washington D.C.’s chapter of the “Defeat The Mandates” rally in the nation’s capital.
- The Blaze on the scene representative reported that there were firefighters from California leading chants of “No Mandates!”
- The event featured Doctor Robert Malone and Lara Logan, a former “60 Minutes” correspondent and Fox News contributor, who were scheduled to speak at the event.
- Event organizers said they hoped the Sunday march would give people the courage to stand up against requirements in their hometowns and places of employment, according to Fox News.
WHAT EVENT PROMOTERS SAID:
- “You’re going to hear a lot of people talk about on the left say this is a big, anti-vax rally — it’s people coming in to deny science,” march organizer Will Witt, an author and political commentator for nonprofit PragerU, told Fox News Digital, “but this march is about the mandate, and this march is about the Draconian measures that we’re seeing all across this country right now, especially in places like D.C., New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco.”
- “After 3 relatives of a friend of mine died right after being vaccinated, I started looking at the data from the clinical trials, from studies, from the government, and from doctors,” said former Silicon Valley executive Steve Kirsch in his prepared comments. “We don’t need masks, we don’t need vaccines, we don’t need mandates, and we don’t need lockdowns. We never did.”
BACKGROUND:
- Many major cities across the nation, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Boston, and Washington D.C. have implemented vaccine mandates to various degrees.
- The nation’s capitol has put in place citywide rules requiring residents to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination at certain establishments, such as restaurants and gyms as ABC News outlined.
