Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said Sunday that she will never be forced to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
“It’ll be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot,” she said at a Turning Point USA event in Arizona.
As the crowd cheered, she added, “I will not do it. I won’t do it and they better not touch my kids, either.”
The one-time vice presidential candidate has been vocal about her unvaccinated status. In September, she appeared on Fox News and declared that while she believes in science, she had no plans to be inoculated against the virus that has gripped the nation in a pandemic for over a year and a half.
She has pointed to her previous COVID infection when defending her choice, saying she believes she has increased immunity as a result of her prior illness.
Palin said at the time she wanted “to ask the questions” about the vaccine and referred to top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci when she discussed immunity. Fauci has encouraged previously infected people to get the vaccine, which, the CDC notes, has been shown to reduce the likelihood of previously infected people contracting COVID-19 again.
Though she encouraged mask-wearing in March, when she was first diagnosed, Palin used part of her speech Sunday to tell the assembled crowd that there is strength in numbers and it was incumbent on listeners to fight against vaccine mandates.
“Realize that those around you, as you stiffen your spine, their spines, too, will stiffen, and there is an empowerment in a group like this where you all can feed off each other and really be strong,” she said. [words of wisdumb]
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"Though she encouraged mask-wearing in March, when she was first diagnosed, Palin used part of her speech Sunday to tell the assembled crowd that there is strength in numbers and it was incumbent on listeners to fight against vaccine mandates."
Yes indeed there is strength in numbers. Now there are more than 800,000 American who will not be permitted to vote Republican in the next election.
"Though she encouraged mask-wearing in March, when she was first diagnosed, Palin used part of her speech Sunday to tell the assembled crowd that there is strength in numbers and it was incumbent on listeners to fight against vaccine mandates."
Yes indeed there is strength in numbers. Now there are more than 800,000 American who will not be permitted to vote Republican in the next election.
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I think there's a high probability that the liberal contingent will vote. Progressives vote early and as often as they can.
Soon, I’ll post my farewell message. The end is starting to get close. There are many misconceptions about me, and before I go, to live with my ancestors on the steppes, I want to set the record straight.
Sarah Palin Tests Positive for COVID — Again — as NYT Defamation Trial Was Set to Begin
"She is, of course, unvaccinated," Judge Jed Rakoff told the court Monday morning
Sarah Palin's defamation case against The New York Times was pushed back on Monday as a federal judge in New York announced that he had learned on Sunday evening that the former Alaska governor tested positive for COVID-19 — again.
"Since she has apparently tested positive three times, I'm going to assume that she's positive," Rakoff said in court.
Per Reuters, Palin had said she wanted to attend the trial.
This would be the second COVID diagnosis for 57-year-old Palin, who in March revealed she had "bizarre" symptoms after previously contracting the virus, including a loss of taste and smell.
The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee-turned-TV personality said in a statement to PEOPLE then that "as confident as I'd like to be about my own health, and despite my joking that I'm blessed to constantly breathe in the most sterile (frozen!) air, my case is perhaps one of those that proves anyone can catch this."
She continued: "I would strongly encourage everyone to use common sense to avoid spreading this and every other virus out there. There are more viruses than there are stars in the sky, meaning we'll never avoid every source of illness or danger … But please be vigilant, don't be frightened, and I advise reprioritizing some personal time and resources to ensure as healthy a lifestyle as you can create so when viruses do hit, you have at least some armor to fight it."
Getting vaccinated, however, was a bridge too far for Palin, who last month told a crowd that she would get a shot "over my dead body."
"It'll be over my dead body that I'll have to get a shot," Palin said, while addressing a conservative crowd at AmericaFest 2021 in Phoenix. "I will not do that. I won't do it, and they better not touch my kids either."
The news of a positive diagnosis Palin — who is a mom to five children with ex-husband Todd — delayed her trial against the Times for defamation, which was set to begin Monday.
Jury selection was instead moved to Feb. 3, CNN reports.
Palin sued the Times and its former editorial page editor for allegedly damaging her reputation with a 2017 editorial that linked the 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords to a map circulated by Palin's political action group that showed certain electoral districts under crosshairs.
The Times corrected the error and apologized for it: "An earlier version of this editorial incorrectly stated that a link existed between political incitement and the 2011 shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords. In fact, no such link was established," the paper said.
