Marvel Actress Evangeline Lilly Comes Out Against Vaccination Mandate To Groans From Social Media

January 27th, 2022 - 5:03 PM EST by Adam Downer

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An image of Evangeline Lilly, who plays the wasp in Marvel's ant man series.

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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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?

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