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Violet Affleck, the 18-year-old daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, is opening up a few medical situation that has impacted her life.
The teenager spoke in the course of the public feedback portion of a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors assembly and is seen making an impassioned plea in a video shared on X.
Affleck, who’s seen carrying a masks, started by introducing herself as “Violet Affleck, Los Angeles resident, first time voter and 18.”
“I contracted a post-viral situation in 2019,” she stated. “I’m OK now, however I noticed first-hand that medication doesn’t at all times have solutions to the implications of even minor viruses.”
She went on to say that “The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown that into sharper aid.”
“One in 10 infections results in lengthy Covid, which is a devastating neurological and cardiovascular sickness that may take away folks’s skill to work, see, transfer and even suppose,” Affleck stated. “To confront the lengthy Covid disaster, I demand masks availability, air filtration and far-UVC lights in authorities amenities, together with jails and detention facilities, and masks mandates in county medical amenities.”
She additionally advocated for extra free testing and remedy alternatives, whereas including “most significantly the county should oppose masks bans for any cause.”
“They don’t maintain us safer, they make susceptible members of our neighborhood much less protected and make everybody much less capable of take part in Los Angeles collectively,” she concluded. “Thanks.”
Affleck is the eldest of three kids of Garner and Ben Affleck, who married in 2005 and divorced in 2018. Their different kids are Seraphina (who goes by Finn), 15 and Samuel, 12.