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 t