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And it is starting! Small rally held in Vernon, B.C., against COVID-19 restrictions.

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https://globalnews.ca/news/6812617/rally-vernon-covid-19-restrictions/

As the province continues to stress the importance of respecting public health orders to limit the spread of COVID-19, a small group of people who feel restrictions have gone too far held a rally near Vernon’s City Hall on Sunday.

“We have had enough! We have had enough fear! We have had enough restriction on our jobs and our lives,” wrote organizer Sylvia Herchen in a social media post promoting the event.

“We feel that the measures taken to battle the virus are detrimental to society. All elements of society are injured by this methodology of lock down over the whole world.”

Herchen questioned the validity of coronavirus statistics, and told Global News she feels the cure may be worse than the disease.

“We are rallying together because we feel that our rights have been trampled … by all the things that they are not allowing us to do to protect us from one little virus,” she said.

Public health officials have urged people to avoid non-essential travel, stay home, and keep two metres apart from others when out in public.

Herchen noted that participants stood apart from each other at the gathering to maintain the recommended physical distance.

On Monday, provincial heath officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said most people are following the rules and it’s making a difference in protecting people at high risk of severe symptoms or death due to COVID-19, such as seniors and people with compromised immune systems.

Global Okanagan was not granted the opportunity to ask about the Vernon rally at the province’s daily media briefing, but Henry was asked about a video posted on social media filmed at a similar event in Vancouver.

Health Minister Adrian Dix said a small number of people have been behaving “very badly” and trying to promote themselves, and urged the public to not be distracted.

“Don’t promote them. Don’t look at them, but focus on what we need to do together,” he said.

People had to know this was coming. How long before there are rallies here in ON? In the GTA? Around the world?

How long are people going to “stay home” before they lose it and say enough is enough?

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