Protest held in Meridian over COVID-19 vaccine requirement at local health systems and last updated 2021-07-20 08:51:06-04 MERIDIAN, Idaho â Demonstrators lined both sides of Eagle Road in Meridian outside of St. Luke's Monday, protesting a decision by three local health systems to require their employees to get their COVID-19 vaccine. âI am not anti-vax and I don't think anybody here really is anti-vax. We are anti-forced and anti-being coerced into this,â said Sofia Boyarchuk, an Idaho nursing student. The protest was organized by Health Freedom Idaho. âI am not against the vaccine per se. I am against them forcing and mandating people who choose not to get it. Otherwise, they are threatening them with losing their jobs. That is what I am against. Their jobs or their freedoms," said Ramse Rogers, an Eagle resident. âIf we can't travel because we are not vaccinated or we can't go to a grocery store because we are not vaccinated, those are the types of things that right here with this mandate, are where those types of things start."