Thousands of anti-vaccine mandate protesters descend on DC and ignoring city’s outdoor mask rules while playing Meat Loaf songs days after the anti-mandate singer died from COVID
- Crowd of up to 20,000 gathered in DC Saturday
- Gathered to protest ongoing vaccine mandates, including in the capital
- Many went maskless, in defiance of outdoor rules
- Meat Loaf’s songs were also heard blaring out at the event
- The singer – opposed to vaccine mandates and masks – is rumored to have died of COVID
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Thousands gathered in Washington D.C. – a city that mandates vaccines – to protest vaccine mandates, with protesters blaring ballads by Meatloaf, a musician who is feared to have succumbed to COVID-19 complications at 74 after vocal hesitation about the jab.
Robert F. Kennedy and Informed Consent Action Network founder Del Bigtree were among big names who addressed the rally Sunday morning. Around 20,000 people were expected to attend the demonstration.
Anti vaccine mandate protesters are filmed in Washington Dc Sunday
A crowd of up to 20,000 gathered around the National Mall
Meat Loaf was heard playing, days after the anti-mandate singer died of suspected COVID aged 74
Many of those who did so were not masked, despite DC Mayor Muriel Bowser mandating masks outdoors for people who have not had their COVID shot when gathered in large groups outside.
Meat Loaf – who died of suspected COVID side effects last week aged 74 – could be heard blaring out over the demonstration.
The much loved star was vocally anti-vaccine mandate and mask. Rumors that he was killed by the virus itself would also make him one of its highest-profile victims.
RFK Jr was among anti-vaccine mandate protests who spoke at the DC rally Sunday, and is pictured on the steps of the Lincoln Monument
Some of those who attended Sunday’s event were heckled for wearing face masks – despite local mandates saying unvaccinated people must don the coverings even while outdoors
Some of those who attended were pro-vaccine but anti-vaccine mandate – but this protester, dressed as the grim reaper, clearly has issues with the COVID shots themselves
Another anti-vaxxer held up a sign proclaiming ‘I am not a lab rat.’ Many of those who attended Sunday’s rally said they were unvaccinated
Another protesters held up a sign suggesting those in favor of mandates were ‘Karens’ – an insulting term given to people deemed entitled an rude
Sunday’s protest drew a wide range of protesters, many elderly, with others babies in strollers. According to the Washington Post, many held up signs backing former President Donald Trump, himself an outspoken supporter of the vaccines his administration developed.
Others toted signs saying ‘Let’s go Brandon’ and ‘F**k Joe Biden’. Those who were wearing masks were seen being taunted, with one man heckling people wearing face-coverings by saying ‘Take those masks off…it’s all a lie!’
The protest appeared to include both demonstrators who are pro-vaccine but anti-mandate, and others who are both anti-vaccine and anti-mandate.
One person with the latter belief was seen holding a sign saying ‘Vaccines are mass kill bio weapons.’ Kelly Clarkson’s song Stronger – with the lyrics ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,’ could also be heard blaring out, according to the Post.
Body therapist Justin Perrault, from Fairhaven in Massachusetts, said he’d been moved to attend after clients had stopped coming to his clinic because he’d refused to have a vaccine.
He said he’d recently started using food stamps, and was worried about what his four and eight year-old children would make of him.
Perrault, who traveled with his wife and her friend, said he also wanted to take a stand against scientists’ claims that COVID vaccines are safe.
Also present was Jaedyn Wetzel, 12, who toted a sign saying ‘I have natural immunity.’ Wetzel, from Warfordsburg in Pennsylvania, caught COVID over Thanksgiving, and has since recovered.