In the name of their freedoms, their children or religious beliefs, thousands of Americans demonstrated this Sunday in Washington to protest against the mandatory nature of vaccinations against Covid-19.
“The obligation (of vaccines) and freedoms are not compatible. Like oil and water,” a speaker on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial declared, amid Americans of all ages, without a mask and some accompanied by children. .
“I’m not anti-vaccine, but I’m against this vaccine,” Michelle, a 61-year-old Virginia physiotherapist, told AFP, calling messenger RNA doses “too experimental” and “rushed.”
Michelle explains that she refused the vaccine and benefited from a religious exemption, but to continue working in Washington she must be tested every week.
Therese is more radical, and is definitely opposed to all vaccines. He explains that he traveled from Michigan to protest what he calls an “attack” on freedoms.
“Vaccines do not work, they lie to us,” says the 60-year-old, who also asks to be identified only by her first name.
Further up the stairs are people in white coats, pictured as doctors from Texas taking turns talking. “We are Americans and that is our thing: We are fighting tyranny!” throw someone off the podium.
There are signs with messages like “My body, my choice” or “God is our rock and will defeat Goliath.” There are also many messages against Joe Biden, amid flags bearing the name of Donald Trump.
Confronted with the requirement of the city of Washington to show the vaccination certificate to go to a restaurant or a movie, Isaac Six (34) jokes: “Okay, we’re saving money.”
The man believes that vaccines in general are “wonderful, it has helped millions of people” around the world, but “that people are being forced to be vaccinated, especially when the vaccine does not completely prevent transmission”, he thinks “irrationally”.
Unlike others in the demonstration, which took place in the compulsory vaccination against Covid-19 a threat to democracy, Six has shown confidence in the democratic system. What worries him is the policies adopted “in a context of fear and panic” and “by decree”, he says.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx