Grace Baker-Earle, who uses a wheelchair as a result of her early Covid infection and her mother, were approached by the anti-vax protestors after taking the vaccine at Cardiff’s Bayside mass vaccination site.

Angela, Grace’s mother, said demonstrators accused her of using Grace “like a lab rat.”

Officers from South Wales Police responded to a protest in the area at 10:50 a.m. BST and stayed on the scene.

The police department stated that no arrests had been made.

Ms Baker-Earle said the interaction as “just horrible” and “incredibly intimidating,” and it occurred while she was loading her daughter’s wheelchair into her car, which she requires due to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME).

According to the 44-year-old, a demonstrator called getting the jab “ridiculous.”

“I said my daughter is using a wheelchair because of Covid,” said Ms Baker-Earle.

“[A protestor] said: ‘She’ll have immunity, you shouldn’t be getting the vaccine since you have natural immunity. You shouldn’t be using her as a lab rat’.

“It was incredibly unpleasant.”

Ms Baker-Earle, of Cowbridge, Vale Glamorgan, said the 15 anti-vaxxers walked in front of her car, and she had to urge one of them to “step back.”

“He was within two feet of me, looked at me as if I was stupid. I told them: ‘You have literally surrounded my car’.”

She stated that a vaccination center steward then came out and checked on her and her daughter’s safety.

Grace described the confrontation as “hit a spot” because of how severely Covid had affected her and her family.

“I think I was sad more than anything because it’s something I still live with, it takes up every second of my day,” she said.

“I was excited to have it done – to have people tell you as you come out that what you’re doing is wrong and to have people invading your personal space, it wasn’t nice.”

Ms Baker-Earle stated that she was hospitalized with Covid and pneumonia in November, about the same time Grace was infected with the virus.

“Grace was very unwell for a couple of weeks, she lost half a stone and was really poorly – she weighed 6.5 stone (41kg) to begin with.

“A cardiologist has said although Grace had a virus earlier in March, having Covid pushed it over into having ME.”

ME is a chronic neurological disorder, so day-to-day duties can be “exhausting,” according to Grace.

“People were so dismissive of such a serious thing we are dealing with, which makes my blood boil,” she added.

“There are 12-year-olds going down there to be faced with that – a whole line of people, it is disgusting.”

“Now she has to use a wheelchair to go more than 50 yards, and has an extremely elevated heart rate,” she said.

“It has been lifechanging for Grace, we are hoping she will get better. This is all off the back of Covid in November.”

Image Credit: Image Credit: Angela Baker-Earle

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