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Arvid Danielson, also from Medina, is a trucker. Pictured on the left, he drives for a company out of Wooster. He joined the convoy to show his support for ending the national emergency, but also to join his Army friend, Mike O’Neil (right).
O’Neil, of St. Louis, Missouri, said he resigned from his job as an inspector general for the U.S. Army Pacific Command. As a federal employee, he faced a vaccine requirement unless he could show a medical or religious exemption.
“They told me I have to prove vaccination or have an exemption. I had (an exemption), but I thought, ‘I shouldn’t have to do this.’ So I resigned,” he said.
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Jason Miller, of Medina, described himself as a Christian. He’s not a trucker, but he, too, took part in the People’s Convoy to show his disdain for the national emergency related to COVID-19 pandemic. It’s the national emergency, he said, that allowed politicians across the country to implement rules and restrictions that “took away freedoms.”
Ultimately, though, Miller hopes the movement results in unity.
“This country is done unless we find a way to unite,” he said. “And we’re not uniting under Republican or Democrat … nobody should believe that a nurse should lose her job because she won’t get the, you know, it’s a health choice. I don’t even like using the word ‘vaccine.’”
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GALLERY: People’s Convoy, Day 1-2
