Activists skeptical of vaccines are joining with conservatives and other anti-lockdown demonstrators. They contend the coronavirus isn’t dangerous enough to justify stay-at-home orders.
has called on the governor to promise that no one will be forced to get a coronavirus vaccine in order to go to work or school., which also opposed California’s vaccine laws, question stay-at-home orders and accuse government officials of refusing to admit the orders are a mistake., its founders describe stay-at-home orders as an abuse of government authority, and the closure of California gun shops as an assault on the Second Amendment.
In many ways, the conservative arm of the anti-vaccine movement is a natural ally for those leading “reopen America” rallies, said Dr. David Gorski, an oncologist and managing editor of theVaccine critics, for example, have long championed the false claim that vaccines cause autism, and that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tried to cover up that information, Gorski said.
Protests against social distancing began in Michigan but have spread to state capitols in Texas, Colorado, Nevada, Maryland, Wisconsin and elsewhere, with more planned. Most protests have been small, limited to a few hundred or fewer people.Stephen Moore, the senior economic contributor for FreedomWorks, a conservative advocacy group, said he’s unfamiliar with the Freedom Angels or its rallies.
“I’m personally pro-vaccine,” said Moore, a member of the White House council to reopen the economy. “Especially when it comes to coronavirus.”
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