NYC workers who were fired for not obeying the city’s vaccine mandate have won lawsuits against the city. Yet, they STILL DO NOT HAVE THEIR JOBS BACK. Judges have ruled in their favor, stating that they were unjustly terminated and that the city must reinstate them immediately. It doesn’t happen. Why? Because the city just appeals the ruling and these workers are left in legal limbo. Teacher Michael Kane along with 9 of his colleagues won their lawsuit over a year ago and the judge ordered they return to work. But instead the case is stuck in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and they can’t work. Another teacher who was 6 months from retirement when she was fired for not taking the vaccine won her suit also. When she tried to return to the classroom, she was escorted by security off school premises because the city had appealed the ruling and the school had no place for her. “I’m not a criminal, and yet they are making me feel like I’m breaking the law,” she said.
Not only did Dr. Varma brag on tape about his not socially distanced antics, he also asserted that “it doesn’t make any difference at all” if a person takes the vaccine or acquires natural immunity from exposure to the virus. He said, “Everybody’s been exposed to the virus. Whether you’re exposed to the virus because it’s breathed on you or because it got injected into you. It’s the same immune response.”
When unvaccinated city employees brought their lawsuits, Varma was called up to testify on the city’s behalf. He justified the NYC vaccine mandates in court, saying “The Covid-19 vaccine has been shown to offer those persons with a prior Covid-19 infection greater protection against reinfection.”
Yes, he contradicted himself completely. This why Queens Councilwoman Joanne Ariola has accused Varma of perjury and is calling for him to be “held accountable” (famous last words).
And yes, Varma has been fired from his pharmaceutical job for what he revealed on this videotape. That’s great. But others who were unjustly fired because of lies like his continue to suffer and feel the negative consequences of the vaccine mandate years later.
Have you heard of Public-Private Partnerships? They didn’t exist before the mid-1990s.
A Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is the merging of the Public (Government) and the Private (non-profits, foundations and Corporations) into a Partnership (a legal business arrangement comprised of two or more entities).
From Investopedia: “Public-private partnerships typically have contract periods of 20 to 30 years or longer. Financing comes partly from the private sector but requires payments from the public sector and/or users over the project’s lifetime. The private partner participates in designing, completing, implementing, and funding the project, while the public partner focuses on defining and monitoring compliance with the objectives.”
On April 17, 2020, the NIH announced that the U.S. Government was was entering into a Public-Private Partnership called ACTIV (Acclerating Covid-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines).
ACTIV was coordinated by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and brought together eight Government Agencies (including the NIH, the HHS, the CDC, the FDA and the Department of Defense), four Non-Profits (including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and twenty Pharmaceutical Corporations (including J&J, Moderna and Pfizer).
In the announcement, NIH lamented that “the research community” was sifting though over 100 potential preventative treatments for Covid-19, but “many studies could fail to enroll enough patients to answer their research questions.”
Therefore, there was “a need to coordinate and streamline processes” and “prioritize the most promising vaccine candidates and move them into clinical trials in a way that is safe and efficient.”
The Organization Chart of the ACTIV Public-Private Partnership shows a clear bias toward the development of vaccines and not inexpensive “therapeutic interventions.” Indeed, one of their stated goals was to “accelerate the evaluation of vaccine candidates to enable rapid authorization or approval.”
The Public Partner’s responsibility is to “define and monitor compliance with the objectives.” So Government (the Public Partner) issued illegal “mandates” at the federal, state and local levels. Using the threat of social ostracization and job loss, MORE vaccines got into more arms than otherwise would have.
In addition to approving the vaccines, the FDA “helped” the Partnership by spreading misinformation online. It issued the infamous August 21, 2021 tweet stating “You are Not a Horse. You are not a Cow. Seriously y’all, Stop it.” and linking to an article on the FDA website entitled “Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat Covid-19.”
Thankfully, three doctors (who were unjustly targeted by their employers and medical boards for using Ivermectin) just won their lawsuit against the FDA. The judge ruled that the FDA acted outside of its authority, and illegally interfered with doctors’ ability to practice medicine with its aggressive campaign against Ivermectin.
If you scroll down on this page to “ACTIV-6 Repurposed Drugs”, you will see that the Partnership conducted three clinical trials for Ivermectin, Fluvoxamine and Fluticasone. There are three trials for Ivermectin. All of these trials did not start recruiting test subjects until May 2021 and as of August 2022 had not completed their enrollments for the trials. Finally, the ACTIV Partnership concluded last Fall that Ivermectin shows no efficacy. Meanwhile this real-time meta-analysis of 93 studies proves otherwise.
Overcoming the Covid Darkness discusses the science behind the effective “HCQ Cocktail” regime Dr. George Fareed (Harvard Medical School Graduate, former NIH scientist and M.D. with over 30 years of clinical experience treating HIV and other infectious diseases, as well as practicing primary care medicine) and his colleague Dr. Brian Tyson used to help 7,000 people survive Covid in 2020. Ivermectin was later added to their Covid protocol.
In early 2020, many doctors identified several existing drugs to treat the respiratory, viral, vascular and inflammatory symptoms of Covid because that’s their job. And when you think about it, how could there NOT be? Big Pharma TV ads relentlessly push pills for everything from heart disease to hair loss, but there wasn’t ONE THING a doctor could give a patient to lessen, prevent or eliminate Covid symptoms?
No, according to Government there wasn’t. The Private, Corporate Partners were able to skip the usual multi-year testing of vaccines because the Public Partner–Government–granted them an Emergency Use Authorization (given only if no treatments are available) and exempted them from all liability.
The Government is now in the Business of making vaccines, so they tried to stop doctors from doctoring and force the world to wait for the vaccines to “end Covid.” Covid patients were not treated, but rather isolated and usually ventilated in hospitals, where many of them died.
Big Pharma (and Deborah Birx) knew from the get-go these “vaccines” would not stop transmission of the virus. In fact, viral transmissibility was never even tested in Pfizer’s trails. Covid (whose symptoms now match those of the common cold or flu) will always be with us. This fits nicely with the Partnership’s multi-year term. New boosters to “fight covid” are now rolled out every few months.
What else is a Business Partnership devoted to making and selling vaccines supposed to do for the next twenty or thirty years?
It has been three years since “the pandemic” began.
For some, “the pandemic” remains a legitimate event that caused governments around the world to react. These reactions were considered not only appropriate but necessary to contain a deadly virus. It was okay to send the economy and children’s educations into a downward spiral. All government induced revocations of rights: to work, learn, enter public spaces or to make private medical decisions without coercion or threats, were justified and whatever legal and social precedents established were welcomed.
For these people, this blog is most likely the stuff of conspiracies and paranoia. However, I believe many people have a sense that “something was/is off” about the past three years. It is only a question of where you are on that spectrum.
My opinion is that the “pandemic” is part of an ongoing episode, wherein a very treatable virus that was dangerous to relatively few was, and continues to be, massively mishandled by Government and its Media apparatchik. Indeed, the government should have been barely involved with it.
For example, there is still no explanation for why NY Governor Cuomo ordered ill seniors back into their nursing homes, and were NOT quarantined from other residents, while healthy people at little risk from the virus were confined to their homes for months on end. This mixing of the well and unwell in nursing homes produced the predictable result of covid spreading like wildfire in these settings, killing many.
There is still no explanation as to why the official government response in 2020 was to NOT treat those with covid symptoms at home with a variety of existing, FDA approved drugs. There also is no explanation as to why ventilation was the predominant “official” covid intervention in early 2020. Most people who end up on a ventilator die; why not treat the patient before it gets that bad? Dr. George Fareed wrote a book called Overcoming The Covid Darkness explaining how he did just that and saved 7,000 people from Covid. Yet, doctors like the Harvard educated George Fareed were ignored, pilloried and censored.
Then, the vaccine mandates rolled out in 2021. Declining to take a vaccine made in a matter of weeks with a technology never before deployed on any kind of scale, with about six months of testing behind it, was perfectly reasonable. But to the government and most of media, covid vaccines were all benefit, no risk and to think otherwise was heresy. How could this possibly be? To even ponder the question earned you the dreaded “anti-vaxxer” label, a pejorative clearly meant to shut down dissent and honest scientific investigation.
The truth is, these covid shots were never even tested for transmission in the initial trials. And this lie–the lie of transmission, as it were–was the VERY REASON, the justification, for vaccine mandates. And yes, Fauci et al promised the “virus would stop with you” if you took your shots. We can all catch and transmit the virus, yet only the “fully vaccinated” were granted the “privilege” of sitting in a restaurant or having a job during 2021 and 2022 in the formerly great City of New York.
My opinion is that vaccine mandates were illogical, immoral and illegal, and if you take a look in this blog you will see Supreme Court judges who agree and ruled against such mandates. Yet many vaccinated people believed otherwise and felt mandated vaccination was justified to “stop the spread” and protect others, even as they themselves spread Covid. This reflects a blatant disconnect from reality into which people were deliberately lead, and it occurred on a global scale.
The government’s “covid response” was based on the delusion of scientific consensus. It is distinctly illiberal to manufacture consensus by censoring scientific dissent or discrediting those who questioned one size fits all countermeasures. People were punished for going against the Government’s Big Pharma solution. And furthermore, it was entirely predictable that many people would see all this and resist. Yet, the Government and Media pretended otherwise, created the “anti-vaxxer” label and stoked yet more societal division (and then sadly sighed, “we’ve never been more divided….”).
So, what is the big picture here? Why did this happen? What is going on?
I’m still sorting that out, and I have a few theories. What I do believe is that we live in a false reality of sorts. What we see on our screens is curated and scripts are written to sway an audience. The very definition of “vaccine” was changed by the CDC in 2021 to better reflect the reality that covid vaccines do not confer immunity to recipients. The public’s long held understanding of what vaccines do was exploited, and then the meaning changed. Have we all caught up? Does everyone know (and agree with) the new definition?
More and more, we are losing our shared realities. “The Pandemic” is a perfect example. Some were scared of a virus and others were scared of the government. Some of us have heard of the Great Reset, and others have no idea what that is. Those who cling to the “safe and effective” mantra believe the covid vaccine-injured do not exist or are fakes. It was verboten to speculate that the virus was made in a lab, until it wasn’t. We are all “allowed” to know only what Media will tell us. Straying from the mainstream established narrative ensures some kind of punishment or exclusion. Until, it doesn’t. Why?
I believe that massive and avoidable harm (on multiple levels including physically, psychologically and spiritually) was deliberately done to the general public, all in the name of “the pandemic”. Beyond that, I am open to all explanations.
On Friday, February 10, 2023 the covid vaccine will be optional for city workers. It will no longer be a requirement to work for the city. Also, public school buildings will no longer be checking vax papers, so unvaccinated parents can now attend school plays and parent-teacher conferences in person.
This does not mean that the 1,780 workers who were fired for refusing to submit proof of vaccination will just go back to work. It means they have to re-apply to their former agencies for a job, and hopefully a job will still be there. And, they are not entitled to any backpay.
James McCarthy, President of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association said, “We’re suing to have back pay for all the members that were put on leave without pay. One of the litigations is that it was illegal. It was a punishment and they weren’t given due process.”
Other Unions such as the Detectives Endowment Association (DEA) and the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) have vowed to sue for members’ backpay.
The PBA already won a lawsuit on behalf the entire union last September. The judge on that case ruled that that mandate was “invalid” and that all PBA members who were suspended or lost jobs due to the mandate be “reinstated to the status they were as of the date of the wrongful action.” The city appealed that decision.
What the Mayor has done is lift a mandate. He is not guaranteeing these people jobs with the city again, never mind reinstating them to the status they were prior to termination. They are like any other joe blow off the street looking for a job. They just don’t need the jab now to apply.
The Mayor said city workers stepped up through the pandemic, and that we owe them a debt of gratitude. Then he said that with 96% of city workers having been vaccinated, this is the “right moment for this decision. I continue to urge every New Yorker to get vaccinated, get boosted, and take the necessary steps to protect themselves and those around them from Covid-19.”
Why is the Mayor continuing to push and advocate for this vaccine? He isn’t a doctor and we don’t need his opinion.
He is clearly unaware that there is a massive push now for an acknowledgement that these vaccines not only aren’t effective, they have caused physical harm and death.
The FDA even states on its own website that “the scientific community does not yet know if the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine will reduce transmission.” “Real life” has shown us IT DOES NOT. There are far more covid cases now that there were at the “height of the pandemic.”
A group called the Coalition Advocating for Adequately Labeled Medicines has sent a petition to the FDA stating that basically, there isn’t enough information and data to assert that these shots prevent transmission OR death. They want the labeling on the shots to say this, and also for the “adverse event section” of the labeling to include “sudden cardiac death, pulmonary embolism and decreased sperm concentration.”
But do we really need this panel of experts to tell us that? Doesn’t common sense tell us that any medication requires the test of time to know just HOW well they work and what all the side effects are? Obviously, deciding to trust this vaccine was a personal decision that should have remained private. How could ANYONE push these shots on anyone, much less make a person’s ENTIRE CAREER conditional upon taking them?
In 2021, NY Healthcare Workers were fired from their jobs if they declined a covid-19 vaccine.
A group of healthcare workers under the banner of Medical Professionals for Informed Consent (the Petitioners) sued NYS Health Commissioner and Governor Kathy Hochul (the Respondents). These doctors and healthcare workers stated that Hochul overstepped her authority and the Mandate should be null and void.
On January 13, 2023 the Judge overseeing their case agreed. The Vaccine Mandate on NY Healthcare workers is now null and void. Everyone who was fired should go back to work. But Hochul and friends are appealing the ruling. What else would you expect from a woman who wears a necklace that says “Vaxed” and said God wants everyone vaccinated?
Judge Gerard J. Neri wrote in his ruling that the Governor and Commissioner issued a Mandate that was beyond their authority. That they ignored and overrode existing Public Health Law, and that the Separation of Powers was not upheld. Basically, the government behaved illegally, but few in the Media took note of this dangerous behavior.
Luckily, the Judge took note of it. He ruled that the Mandate was arbitrary, as “arbitrary action is taken without sound basis in reason and is generally taken without regard to the facts.”
Judge Neri went on to write “that the Mandate was entitled, “Prevention of Covid-19 transmission by covered entities.” In true Orwellian fashion, the Respondents acknowledge then-current Covid-19 shots do not prevent transmission.”
The Judge even went on to discuss the meaning of the phrase, “fully vaccinated” in his Ruling, describing it as absurd: “A term which is defined at the whim of an entity, subject to change without a moment’s notice contains all the hallmarks of absurdity, and is no definition at all.” Therefore, he found “the Mandate arbitrary and capricious.”
This Supreme Court Judge ruled that the Governor and Commissioner are “prohibited from implementing or enforcing the Mandate.”
New York State mandated a booster last January on healthcare workers but there was so much resistance to it, the mandate was scrapped after a few months. They had already lost too many workers to the original mandate and couldn’t afford to lose any more. From syracuse.com:
“Some hospital workers have already resigned over the booster mandate and want to move to states without booster mandates, said Gary Fitzgerald, president of the Iroquois Healthcare Alliance, a group that represents Upstate hospitals.
“Workers are tired and fed up,” Fitzgerald said. “They’re asking, ‘What’s going to happen next? Is the state going to mandate another booster? When will it stop?””
Even though a New York Supreme Court Judge now prohibits the Mandate (and totally trashed the supposed rationale behind it), Kathy Hochul is not letting go. She is “exploring her options.”
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