More than two dozen people gathered outside the Governor’s residence along West Bay Road Saturday in protest of mandatory vaccinations and government imposed COVID-19 regulations.
The five hour protest began at 11am and was meant to be a show of solidarity with what organisers said was a worldwide movement.
“We had a very slim window to join with a series of global anti-mandatory vaccination protests,” said Kattina Anglin, one of the organisers.
Anglin has opposed mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.
In October 2021, the PACT Government passed two bills that mandated vaccinations for non-Caymanians working in Cayman, which was supported by Governor Martyn Roper.
As of Wednesday, 19 Jan., 57,353 persons, or 81% of Cayman’s estimated population, had received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Some 83.2% had received one dose.
There have been 15 COVID-19 related deaths since March 2020.
“Many people have been coerced into taking the vaccine. And now that they have, I ask, ‘why do we need these regulations?’ The virus is in our schools, businesses, homes and wider community and the only course of treatment can’t be to lock someone up [if] they test positive,” said Anglin.
She added, “We are calling on the government to recall all of the vaccine mandates, and ancillary COVID-19 regulations that require mask mandates, quarantine and isolation. These regulations are a clear infringement on people’s rights to private and family life, which are protected by the Constitution.”
The Cayman Compass took an in depth look at the potential implications the COVID-19 regulations could have on human rights.
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The better question to ask is: Why did we take vaccinations two find ourselves 2 years in purgatory? Follow the UK lead and end it all. It was a gallant try but we need to move on.
Because when this started in March 2020 there weren’t any vaccines. The first ones arrived here almost a year later and obviously the entire population couldn’t be vaccinated simultaneously.
So the only available tools were quarantine and lockdowns.
As a result we were able to keep these islands covid free until we had a good uptake of the vaccines.
I’ve been looking at applying for a work permit but these sort of things put me off coming to cayman.
I’ve already had covid and therefore see no personal benefit, only potential risks. While I’m happy with vaccines in general, these are of a new type that there is no long-term data for. Furthermore, it’s becoming more and more clear here in the UK that the vaccines don’t offer much transmission prevention past 8-10 weeks, only protection inferior to natural immunity.
Cayman is really shooting itself in the foot with restrictions vaccines mandates and excessive testing/quarantine rules that aren’t very effective now covid is well established in the community.