•  Crowd of up to 20,000 gathered in DC Saturday
  •  Gathered to protest ongoing vaccine mandates, including in the capital
  • Many went maskless, in defiance of outdoor rules
  • Meat Loaf was also heard singing. He is rumored to have died of COVID  

Thousands gathered in Washington D.C. – a city that mandates vaccines – to protest vaccine mandates, with protesters blaring ballads by Meatloaf, a musician who is feared to have succumbed to COVID-19 complications at 74 after vocal hesitation about the jab.

Robert F. Kennedy and Informed Consent Action Network founder Del Bigtree were among big names who addressed the rally Sunday morning. Around 20,000 people were expected to attend the demonstration.

A crowd of up to 20,000 gathered around the National Mall

Many of those who did so were not masked, despite DC Mayor Muriel Bowser mandating masks outdoors for people who have not had their COVID shot when gathered in large groups outside.

Meat Loaf – who died of suspected COVID side effects last week aged 74 – could be heard blaring out over the demonstration.

The much loved star was vocally anti-vaccine mandate and mask. Rumors that he was killed by the virus itself would also make him one of its highest-profile victims.

Sunday’s protest drew a wide range of protesters, many elderly, with others babies in strollers. According to the Washington Post, many held up signs backing former President Donald Trump, himself an outspoken supporter of the vaccines his administration developed.

Others toted signs saying ‘Let’s go Brandon’ and ‘F**k Joe Biden’. Those who were wearing masks were seen being taunted, with one man heckling people wearing face-coverings by saying ‘Take those masks off…it’s all a lie!’

The protest appeared to include both demonstrators who are pro-vaccine but anti-mandate, and others who are both anti-vaccine and anti-mandate.

One person with the latter belief was seen holding a sign saying ‘Vaccines are mass kill bio weapons.’ Kelly Clarkson’s song Stronger – with the lyrics  ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,’ could also be heard blaring out, according to the Post.

Body therapist Justin Perrault, from Fairhaven in Massachusetts, said he’d been moved to attend after clients had stopped coming to his clinic because he’d refused to have a vaccine.

He said he’d recently started using food stamps, and was worried about what his four and eight year-old children would make of him.

Perrault, who traveled with his wife and her friend, said he also wanted to take a stand against scientists’ claims that COVID vaccines are safe.

Also present was Jaedyn Wetzel, 12, who toted a sign saying ‘I have natural immunity.’ Wetzel, from Warfordsburg in Pennsylvania, caught COVID over Thanksgiving, and has since recovered.