Marvel Actress Evangeline Lilly Comes Out Against Vaccination Mandate To Groans From Social Media
Marvel actress Evangeline Lilly, who plays the Wasp character in the Ant-Man series of films, has come to the forefront of social media after announcing she attended a Washington D.C. anti-vaccination mandate rally, coincidentally the same one where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compared vaccines to the Holocaust earlier this week.
"I was in DC this weekend to support bodily sovereignty while Canadian truckers were rallying for their cross-country, peaceful convoy in support of the same thing," Lilly wrote in an Instagram post.
I believe nobody should ever be forced to inject their body with anything, against their will, under threat of:
-violent attack
-arrest or detention without trial
-loss of employment
-homelessness
-starvation
-loss of education
-alienation from loved ones
-excommunication from society
…under any threat whatsoever.
This is not the way. This is not safe. This is not healthy. This is not love. I understand the world is in fear, but I don’t believe that answering fear with force will fix our problems.
I was pro choice before COVID and I am still pro choice today.
While Lilly's list of things she's against is unobjectionable, the sentiment shared by several social media users as they learned of the Ant-Man star's post was that none of the things she mentioned compare to life-saving vaccines that could potentially hasten the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lilly joins Letitia Wright as another Marvel actress who has frustrated some fans with their takes on vaccinations. In 2021, Wright reportedly caused filming of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever to stall as she refused to get vaccinated. It is unclear if Lilly is vaccinated herself or simply against mandated vaccinations, but this is not the first time she has come under fire for her takes on the pandemic.
In March 2020, she said she'd refuse to social distance "in the name of a respiratory flu," though she later apologized for the incident.
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Victreebong
She’s way too smart to be against something like this. Imagine if there was this much hesitation and stubbornness with small pox. Nobody shunned that vaccine because small pox makes you look like oatmeal. If COVID’s side effect was some disfigurement, not a single Hollywood actor would be against getting a vaccine. For that matter, no one would.
KoimanZX
It's stuff like this that makes me just want to become a hikikomori. Conspiracy fantasies, misinformation, and confirmation bias have culminated to create a population of stubborn mules who end up prolonging the problem. Over 5.6 million have died from this, with many more having long-lasting after effects that impair their quality of life. This virus has affected many people I have known with issues with balance, cognition, and taste (and even a punctured lung and death.)
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I'm vaccinated and at this point I think Omicron's near complete resistance to the vaccine tips the scale into making the mandates do more harm than good. It feels like at this point policy hasn't caught up to the current reality.
1. We have a shortage of truckers and health care workers, meanwhile they're being laid off due to the mandates. If I get sick and have to go to the hospital, I would rather have an unvaccinated nurse than no nurse. Even if I think it's dumb as shit for a nurse to have not gotten the vaccine last year when they actually had significant effect against the then-dominant variant, as stretched thin as our health care system is, can beggars really afford to be choosers right now?
2. Dying on this hill is only going to make it more difficult to get people to take vaccines in the future. It is going to feel to a lot of people like a boy who cried wolf scenario.
Panuru
> Omicron's near complete resistance to the vaccine
WSJ yesterday: "Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Shot Cuts Omicron Death Risk by 95%, U.K. Study Shows"
Kenetic Kups
Vaccine mandates should've always been a thing
Geigh Science
People have been trained like Pavlov's dogs to foam at the mouth when they hear "antivaccine" so that even the somewhat more reasonable stance of "anti-vaccine mandate" (AKA I don't think the government should have the power to force medical decisions on its citizens) still gets people to scramble for their torches and pitchforks.
Jesus, I hate this society.
HotPotato
Not out to start a discussion or anything, but I imagine later generations looking back on these times where people are actually protesting against a cure for a virus. Of course, it's about more than that, but at the same time it's not.
ConspiracyNut
If a completely useless solution (regardless of what the problem) is available, no problem. Working solution to a real problem is mandated, fair enough. This mandate is a useless solution to a non-problem, which suggests the solution provider is the real problem.
Kenetic Kups
Covid is an actual problem alex jones
ConspiracyNut
Much in the way its a problem when I stub my toe, sure. And I wish the crazy things I say came true half as often as Alex Jones, what an undue compliment.
You've Yeed Your Last Haw
Pro-abortion and anti-vaxx is the ultimate disdain of life
A Concerned Rifleman
There is a difference between being anti-vax and anti-mandate. The main argument against the mandates isn't the vaccine (as many who are anti-mandate are vaccinated or believe in its effectiveness), but rather the precedent that a governing body can force a medical treatment onto an individual in "times of emergency". Combined with the precedent of several governments already making their emergency powers permanent (such as Scotland), there is a genuine concern that this precedent could be a gateway into more… unsavory things.
Of course, thanks to today's social media environment, it's impossible to untangle the two. Why should the government attempt to address potential abuse's of power when it can shame people because their concerns are also parroted by lunatics on Facebook?
You've Yeed Your Last Haw
Yet nobody is forcing the vaccine or any medical treatment. And the Scottish emergency powers are still subject to UK judicial and constitutional inquiries. As long as a system of check and balances exists, its unlikely for a government to escalate and abuse its powers. Unlike whats happening on Poland and Russia, where there is virtually no check and balance systems.
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> Yet nobody is forcing the vaccine or any medical treatment.
Quebec is. They are levying a fine on anyone who refuses to get the jab, and anyone who doesn't pay it goes to jail.
You are exactly as free to not get the jab in Quebec as you are to criticize the Putin regime in Russia. I guess the cells might be nicer.
You've Yeed Your Last Haw
That is not forcing. Forcing is more akin to Tuskegee and MK-Ultra than to vaccine mandates. And my comparision to Russia is about check-and-balances, not about censorship.
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