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- Sarah Palin addressed a crowd at the conservative AmericaFest 2021 in Phoenix on Sunday.
- Palin said she would get vaccinated against the coronavirus “over my dead body.”
- The United States is in the midst of another coronavirus surge as the omicron variant ravages the country, with the daily average of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. now at 150,000 cases per day.
Sarah Palin used strong language while addressing the crowd at the conservative AmericaFest 2021 in Phoenix on Sunday as she announced she would never get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
“It’ll be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot,” Palin said. “I will not do that. I won’t do it, and they better not touch my kids either.”
The former Republican Alaskan governor and vice-presidential candidate contracted the coronavirus in March.
Palin went on to state she believes there are more people against the vaccine mandates than those who support them.
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“I think if enough of us rise up and say, ‘no, enough is enough,’ there are more of us than there are of them,” Palin said. “There is an empowerment in a group like this where we can kind of feed off each other and really be strong.”
The United States is in the midst of another coronavirus surge as the omicron variant ravages the country. According to Healthline, the daily average of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. are at 150,000 cases per day and coronavirus deaths are averaging more than 1,000 per day.
In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 61.6 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, having received both doses of a coronavirus vaccine, and 30.4 percent of those fully vaccinated also received a booster vaccine.
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