Anti-Mandate Rally in Shaw Park

Missouri State Senator Dr. Bob Onder (R-02) speaks at the rally. Onder holds an MD from Washington University and a JD from St. Louis University. Onder’s speech at the rally denounced what he described as “COVID tyranny,” saying that public health experts such as Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health and local physician Alexander Garza of SSM Health were taking control of the lives of Americans.

Participants at a Shaw Park anti-vaccine and anti-mask rally brought signs decrying the Biden administration’s effort to implement workplace requirements for vaccination or weekly testing for business with more than a hundred employees. Some brought signs criticizing the media for what the protestors viewed as spreading falsehoods about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Shaw Park rally attendees hold signs denouncing the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds.

Rally speakers and members of the crowd say the new federal workplace regulation deprives them of medical freedom.

Many attendees carried signs proclaiming their resistance to vaccination against COVID-19.

The premise of the rally was to urge Missouri Governor Mike Parson into calling a special session of the state legislature, in an attempt to “stand up” to an OSHA regulation, announced by President Joe Biden on September 9, that would require vaccination or weekly testing for staff of businesses with over a hundred employees.