One Year Ago Today

One year ago, on August 25, 2021, Teachers For Choice of NYC held a rally in front of then-mayor Bill DiBlasio’s office in lower Manhattan to protest mandatory covid vaccinations for NYC teachers and school staff. I was there.

Teachers For Choice “is an organization comprised of teachers and parents that are 100% against forced medical mandates for any American to keep their job, especially educators.”

One year later, on August 25, 2022, Teachers for Choice, along with NY Freedom Rally and other Medical Freedom fighters, marched over the Brooklyn Bridge to protest vaccine mandates in NYC and elsewhere.

Some facts about the covid vaccines:

• Millions of covid-vaccinated people have contracted Covid-19, and the CDC director admitted OVER A YEAR AGO that the vaccines do not stop transmission of the virus.
• Millions of Americans took the vaccine under penalty of expulsion from work, school or military life, and Pfizer was 100% protected from being sued by these same people if the vaccine injured them.
• Pfizer initially refused to publicly release the records they provided to the FDA that justified the licensing of the vaccine last summer. They were forced to do so because of a FOIA request. In March 2022 the requested documents were released to the public. These documents listed 1,291 side effects connected with the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine and over 1,200 human test subjects that died in the first three months of Pfizer’s trial. Vaccine recipients–and their healthcare providers–have the right to know ALL the risks and benefits of a vaccine or medication that is offered. This a critical component of Informed Consent (and the EUA) and it didn’t happen with the vaccine rollout.
• Not to beat a dead horse, but these vaccines DO NOT STOP ANYONE FROM GETTING COVID. Dr. Deborah Birx recently admitted that she knew “these vaccines were never going to stop infection. And I think we overplayed the vaccines.” Even Joe Biden says that even if you take all the precautions, including getting vaccinated, you will probably get Covid anyway.

Yet, vaccine mandates still exist.

• All employees in NYC are still mandated to be covid-vaccinated. Although Mayor Eric Adams is firing city workers who are not vaccinated, he says he is not aggressively pursuing fines for private businesses with unvaccinated employees. But the private sector mandate is still officially in effect and non-compliant employers could be fined whenever Adams feels like it. (Eric Adams is very fickle about where, when and who is affected by mandates, and has no problem making random exceptions, such as for unvaccinated professional athletes like NY Net Kyrie Irving.) His casual attitude about enforcing the mandate on the private sector undercuts the argument for the necessity of it, obviously. But perhaps he has reasons to continue to harshly enforce a vaccine mandate on public school teachers and every other city worker.
• NYC high school student athletes must be vaccinated (as do those who want to play in the high school band or act in musicals).
• All public school students over the age of 12 in Washington DC must be vaccinated to attend school this fall (even though California and New Orleans have reversed or delayed their school vaccine mandates).
• All members of the US Military are mandated to be vaccinated.
• Federal employees are mandated to be vaccinated (although the mandate is not actively enforced because of ongoing legal challenges).
• Non-US Citizens traveling to the US by air from a foreign country must provide proof of a covid vaccination.

I left NYC and now live and work, unvaccinated and unmasked, in another state. Nobody cares or asks me if I’m vaccinated. Today (August 25, 2022) my 47 year old client told me that she had a bad case of Covid earlier in the month although she was vaccinated, boosted and wore an N95 on the airplane (where a covid tracking app told her she apparently caught it).

Since the beginning of all this, I have never been sick with Covid-19 or anything else. I lived and worked in NYC until December 31, 2021–the month Mayor DeBlasio mandated that all private sector employees must be vaccinated.

Up until then, I covid-tested regularly for almost 18 months straight and never was positive. Throughout the fall of 2021 I tested every week, while my vaccinated and equally vulnerable colleagues did not test at all. Testing was necessary, so the fearful vaccinated would feel safer around me, although many still refused to be in my presence after demanding I disclose my private health information.

For example, I was called up and berated by an angry husband for being unvaccinated because his wife fled from me in fear after I honestly answered her intrusive question (“Are you vaccinated?”).

I was afraid too. Afraid of injecting a vaccine into my body with mRNA technology never before used in humans, that would instruct my cells to replicate the toxic spike protein found in the SarsCoV2 virus, possibly indefinitely. Vaccine that were by then known to have caused myocarditis and blood clots, and had about six months of trials and testing behind them. Trials that were conducted by the same company that made that vaccine and stood to profit billions from it. But his wife’s feelings were legitimate, while mine were not.

I also wore a medical grade N95 mask at work to help others to feel safer around me, although I lacked the equipment to fit-test my mask and was therefore using it inappropriately. But it looked serious, and that was the important thing. Meanwhile my co-workers continued to wear completely useless cloth and paper masks.

Masks that do not block viral particles.

It is absolutely insane that up until I moved, I was treated like a contagious disease-carrier at all times.

It is downright pathological that my healthy body was considered “unsafe” and that I was expected to “protect others” from virus that I never even had.

For a disease that has a near 100% survival rate, no less.