Ninth governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has vowed that getting a jab of COVID-19 vaccine will be ‘over my dead body’.
Gatekeepers News reports that Palin, a 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, claimed Dr. Anthony Fauci misled the public by saying that those who have been infected with coronavirus had natural immunity.
She had tested positive for the virus in March and after her diagnosis, encouraged the public to wear masks and take the pandemic seriously.
However on Sunday during her appearance at the Americafest event staged by the conservative student group Turning Point USA in Phoenix, the 57-year-old firebrand ‘mama grizzly’ struck a different tone.
Palin said it was Fauci’s ‘inconsistent’ comments about natural immunity that has dissuaded her from getting vaccinated.
“Do you remember he said that if you had Covid, you would be naturally immune?” Palin said during an on-stage interview with Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of TPUSA.
“So at the time we were led to believe we wouldn’t need to have the shot. Well, then they changed their tune. Those of us who have had Covid, they’re telling us that even though we’ve had it – we have natural immunity – now that we still have to get a shot.”
She added: “And it’ll be over my dead body that I get a shot.
“I will not. I won’t do it and they better not touch my kids either.”
In the spring, Palin told PEOPLE magazine that she and some of her family members tested positive for COVID-19, including her 12-year-old son Trig, who has Down syndrome.
Palin and her son “buckled down in isolated quarantine” but then “symptoms started overnight with a slight fever and sore muscles,” she said.
“As confident as I’d like to be about my own health, and despite my joking that I’m blessed to constantly breathe in the most sterile air, my case is perhaps one of those that proves anyone can catch this,” she said.
Palin explained that the virus worked its way through her household with her daughter first exhibiting symptoms.
‘[O]ne of my daughters awoke to having lost her sense of taste and smell [and] immediately had a positive COVID test, then was quarantined in isolation,’ she said.
After initially testing negative, Palin said she developed coronavirus symptoms ‘overnight’ and suffered a fever, muscle soreness and loss of taste and smell.
“It was unmistakable that COVID caught me,” she said.
“That day I finally tested positive — like millions of other Americans,” said Palin who then observed symptoms in son Trig.
