Aussie actress Isabel Lucas has defended her decision to not get vaccinated against COVID – and it’s exactly as outrageous as you think.
While the world was battling a deadly pandemic, people losing their jobs at an alarming capacity, and loved ones being rushed to the hospital nearly every day, some people chose not to follow public safety protocols or even get the COVID vaccine when it was released. Isabel Lucas was one of them – and now she’s defended her decision to not get vaccinated.
In her latest interview with Stellar magazine, the star – who was slammed last year for her vehement opposition to the vaccine – claimed that she wasn’t against vaccination per se, just mandatory vaccination.
“For me, I appreciate, what might be right for you may not be right for me, but it’s not right that either of us are being stripped of the freedom to choose,” she said, even as she admitted that her statement might affect her employment prospects.
Lucas then seemed to imply that making the vaccine mandatory was an attack on her ‘beliefs:’ “Our relationship with our body is very personal and it’s deeply complex and so are our choices, and we’re claiming to engage in conversations about inclusion and diversity – you know, gender, religion, sexuality, race – without allowing our beliefs or observations to be acknowledged.”
“The diversity of choice is yet to be included, in my experience.” she added.
Yeah, because something that claimed the lives of millions around the world wouldn’t warrant any use of a moral compass, right?
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In 2021, Lucas joined a protest against vaccine mandates at the New South Wales-Queensland border. She made similar remarks around the time: “Freedom of choice is every human’s right. I don’t trust the path of vaccination.” In 2020, she also protested against 5G technology in Byron Bay.
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