Marin Anti-Vaxxers Push Back Against Restrictions: Report

San Rafael CA

12 August, 2021

5:54 PM

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NOVATO, CA — Their views on epidemiology are more consistent with Marjorie Taylor Greene than Dr. Anthony Fauci, and they're taking to the streets, pushing back against businesses who won't let them in their stores. But the scene of anti-vaxxers posting flyers on doors and windows is not from the Deep South or parts of the Midwest, where misinformation and conspiracy theories along with the emergence of the delta variant have fueled a coronavirus case explosion that's plunged the healthcare system in many communities into chaos. It's right here in Marin, America's most vaccinated community, where anti-vaxxers are protesting against businesses who don't want any part of their business until they can prove they've gotten their jabs, KTVU reports. And the Marin protesters who were seen plastering signs Wednesday night on Grant Avenue are using the QAnon congresswoman's talking points. "I believe in freedom and forcing people to take vaccine is against freedom," a man who identified himself as Michael told the television station. "We are fighting for what we believe is right. And if you don't give the government pushback, then they will take even more." The anti-vaxxers are threatening a boycott against local businesses demanding customers show proof of vaccination according to the report. "We're people. We're customers," Novato resident Susan Balm told KTVU. "We kept you in business through this last year when other people were being scaredy cats staying at home and you need to be vaccinated to come in your store?" Read more at KTVU