Almost two years into the coronavirus pandemic, the movement to challenge vaccines’ safety — and reject vaccine mandates — has never been stronger. © Mike Blake/Reuters People at the Huntington Beach Pier protest coronavirus vaccine mandates for schoolchildren and workers in California earlier in January. The march is billed as a protest of vaccine mandates, such as those recently enacted in D.C. and other cities, rather than the medicines themselves. Public employee associations that have formed to protest their employers’ vaccine mandates, such as Feds for Medical Freedom and D.C. Some commenters on the group’s page have compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust and urged people not to get tested for the virus.
