“This Was A Big Time Mind-F*ck”

On Monday October 24, 2022, 16 New York City Department of Sanitation Workers won a lawsuit against NYC, The Health Commissioner and the Mayor.

These people were fired from their jobs (and lost their pensions) for declining the covid vaccine mandated by the city a year ago. A NY Supreme Court Judge ruled that the vaccine mandate imposed on them was unconstitutional, arbitrary and capricious.

The Judge ordered that these workers be reinstated to their jobs immediately and stated they were entitled to back-pay starting from the date they were terminated.

A reporter named Aimee was the only journalist there to cover the reactions of these workers outside the courtroom, immediately after the ruling came down.

Below is a YouTube video she made of the Workers’ reactions after the ruling. I have excerpted some of their words below. (I don’t have their names, but all 16 Workers’ names are on the Judge’s Ruling on their case.)

This was a Big Time Mind-Fuck. It completely disrupted our lives but we knew we’d be on the right side of history. They went way too far. As the judge said, so arbitrary and capricious, they were literally making shit up as they go.

They isolated us. It was really cruel. It really was. It changed my life forever. I’ll never trust the city again, the Department again, the union. They showed their true colors. The union’s job is to protect my job. And the union was nowhere to be found. The Union dismissed us because of our small number but what about the 1,000-1,500 who would never have taken it except for the threat of losing their jobs. You screwed them. “You made a choice.” No. You get to keep what you already have (the job) if you turn your medical decisions over to us? That’s coercion. That’s illegal.”

Two of the workers discuss how they felt “disposable” because by them being fired and replaced, it would be cheaper for the city.

“Tell us we’re selfish….for what? It doesn’t work. Everyone knows it doesn’t work. In December 2021 my garage of 180 guys. There was maybe 50 guys, all vaxxed and out with Covid. And they still terminated us. Are you kidding me? Evil. Pure evil….You give exemptions to athletes and performers and you continue to lay off city workers? Sick, evil shit. Evil people.”

They explained that they before they were terminated, they were on unpaid leave with health benefits. Then, the city suddenly presented them with a document to sign: It said they could keep their benefits but only if they gave up their right to sue the city.

“We were given 24 hours to sign the waiver, to make a life-altering decision. And there were no Union delegates.”

A Worker who moved to Georgia, but came back for the hearing said he felt like he was up against “a machine,” that there was “no human element.” He had put in 19 years as a city worker and had a rent stabilized apartment which he eventually could no longer afford. So he moved south. This father of three said, “This was the most stressful situation of my life, my wife and I cried a lot of tears.”

Mention was made of the $500 and 8 hours of comp time Workers were offered to take the shot. “I thought bribes were illegal.

Another worker discussed how the city gets his body in terms of picking up the trash only, and only during work hours:

I get to keep my body. What happens when I go home from work? What if I had a side effect? They act like that doesn’t exist! Hey, sweep it under the rug! People are getting hurt from this. If there is a risk of death, adverse reactions of any kind, how do you sit there and support this? It’s sinister. It’s demonic. And you take people’s jobs.”

(According to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System–a voluntary reporting system known as VAERS–there were 1, 341,608 Adverse events among all age groups following covid vaccination, including 29,460 deaths and 243, 466 serious injuries between December 14, 2020 and July 8, 2020)

He goes on:

“How can I work amongst these people? I’m traumatized. This is the hardest thing I had to do in my life. It took a lot of courage and faith and listening to my intuition, my faith, ok? “There’s something wrong here. Stay away from this. It’s gonna be hard for you but you’re gonna find your way.”

And that’s what I did. I followed the thing inside me. I didn’t follow the TV, the media, the lie. I just listened to my inner voice. Everybody here probably did the same thing. I stuck to my convictions, my principles and my morals and my faith. “

And you were victorious. Congratulations.

NYC Employee Vax Mandate Ruled Unconstitutional, 16 Fired Workers Entitled to Jobs and Back-Pay

In a hearing yesterday at the Staten Island Supreme Court, NY Supreme Court Judge Ralph Porizo ruled in favor of 16 Department of Sanitation employees who sued the City (as well as Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi and Mayor Eric Adams) after losing their jobs for not complying with the city’s covid vaccine mandate.

Outside the courtroom, Attorney Chad Laveglia said, “We just defeated the vaccine mandate for every single city employee…The Supreme Court of Richmond County made a Constitutional decision that affects every single borough, city-wide.”

He went on to say that the mandate was ruled arbitrary, capricious and unconstitutional. “A city agency can’t make law, that’s what our elected representatives do,” Mr. Laveglia said. “The separation of powers was violated by these mandates.”

The Judge wrote that the Health Commissioner “violated the [workers’] procedural due process” and “lacked the power and authority to permanently exclude [the workers] from their workplace.”

The Mandates were also Arbitrary and Capricious because when Mayor Adams exempted Athletes and Performers from the mandates in March 2022, workers’ Equal Protection under the law was violated (the Mandate on all private sector workers is due to be lifted November 1, but not for city workers).

The 16 DSNY workers were reinstated to full employment status as of October 25, 2022 and are “entitled to back-pay in salary from the date of their termination.”

Here is a Re-Cap of some of NYC’s Covid Vaccine Mandates:

  • On August 16, 2021, the “Key to NYC Vaccination Mandate” announced, which mandated that both customers and workers at Restaurants, Gyms and Indoor Entertainment venues be vaccinated.
  • On August 23, 2021, it was mandated that all Department of Education Employees had to be vaccinated to keep their jobs. Also, unvaccinated parents are not allowed inside school buildings.
  • On October 20, 2021, it was mandated that all city Employees (NYPD, FDNY, DSNY etc) had to be vaccinated to keep their jobs.
  • On December 4, 2021, it was mandated that every Employee in the private sector had to be vaccinated and that private employers could be fined for not complying.

As you consider these mandates, keep in mind that recently a Pfizer spokesperson “admitted” to a European parliament that the Covid Vaccines were never tested for transmission. “Admitted” is in quotes because that word implies Pfizer was hiding something, and fact-checkers were quick to say that Pfizer never claimed that the vaccines prevented transmission of the virus.

As this article in Tablet Magazine states, “Vaccine mandates were mainly rationalized through the belief that the higher the rate of vaccination, the less the virus would spread. For example, during oral arguments for Biden’s health care worker mandate, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Elena Kagan claimed that health care workers had to get vaccinated “so that you’re not transmitting the disease.””

So who is responsible for spreading this belief, this misinformation?

Media outlets paid to promote the vaccines (as revealed by a FOIA request made last March), and government officials, including Anthony “Vaccinated People Become Dead Ends for the Virus” Fauci and Joe “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated” Biden and CDC Director Rachelle “Vaccinated People Do not Carry the Virus and Do Not Get Sick” Walensky.

Last year, when vaccinated people began to get Covid, we were told these were rare, “breakthrough” infections. Breaking through what? The vaccines do not stop infection. On July 22, 2022, former White House Covid Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx even said, “We knew the Covid vaccines were never going to protect against infection.”

We don’t hear our Health Leaders using that misleading and inaccurate phrase, “breakthrough infections” anymore, for obvious reasons. Will the mis-informers be punished?

California Assembly Bill 2098 was recently passed by Governor Newsome in October. This bill describes “the dissemination of misinformation or disinformation related to the Sars-CoV-2 virus, or Covid-19, as unprofessional conduct.” Such “conduct” could result in a doctor being suspended from practicing or losing their medical license altogether.

So when do Drs Fauci and Walensky get brought up on charges of “misinformation”?

The clear implication of this Bill is that doctors will be punished for questioning the government’s decisions regarding Covid, as though the CDC/FDA are the sole arbiters of “truth” and “settled science”. Yet, haven’t we just witnessed errors and misinformed statements made by the Government agencies with regard to Covid?

We deserve to have ALL sides of the medical story so we can make up our own minds as to what is best for ourselves. Uncensored. You know, like we did in 2019?

In my next blog post, I will have quotes from these DSNY workers who spoke to this independent reporter after Judge Porizo’s Ruling yesterday.

You probably won’t hear what they had to say on the mainstream “news.”

Gov. Hochul’s Quarantine Camp Regulation

Rule 2.13 was first “adopted” by the New York State Health Department on March 9, 2020. It gave the NY State Health Commissioner complete and total power to remove, isolate and quarantine a person if the State “had evidence” or “suspected” a person of having a communicable disease (no evidence of illness or contagion needed). Whether or not there was a “declared emergency.”

This regulation kept renewing every 90 days and was due to expire on July 20, 2022. NY Governor Kathy Hochul sought to make it permanent. She was immediately challenged in a lawsuit by NY State Senator George Borello and two other Assemblymen.

People in Australia have been force-quarantined for weeks (without even testing positive for covid). That means taken away by police and forced to stay in a “camp” (or pay a $5,000 fine).

Just last month in China, “health officials” tried to lock customers in an Ikea store, because a 6 year old, covid-positive (and asymptomatic) boy had recently visited. There was a stampede to the doors and the “flash lockdown” was unsuccessful. But thanks to contact tracing, everybody at the store was forced to quarantine at home for two days, and 80,000 were ordered to undergo PCR-testing.

A few more highlights from Rule 2.13:

  • Quarantine locations include homes, hospitals, temporary housing supplied by the state, hotels and other residences owned by private individuals.
  • “If the location of the isolation or quarantine orders is owned by a landlord, hotel, motel or other person or entity,” those owners lose the right to go onto their property unless they have permission from the State.
  • The duration of the quarantine is determined by the State, with no time limit.
  • A person under a quarantine order could “seek judicial review” after-the-fact, but in the meantime, was “subject to all civil and criminal penalties” if they resisted the order or failed to comply. In other words, the detainee would be denied due process of law (a Constitutional right enjoyed by all Americans including criminals).
  • State and local health authorities were expected to coordinate with local law enforcement to ensure the public’s compliance with the orders.

A lawyer named Bobbie Ann Cox successfully overturned this regulation in a Judgement made on July 8, 2022.

Governor Hochul and NY Attorney General Tisch James are appealing the decision of Judge Ronald Ploetz of Cattaraugus County. They would like Rule 2.13 reinstated.

Judge Ploetz wrote in his decision, “The Commissioner (of the New York State Department of Health) has unfettered discretion to issue a quarantine or isolation for anyone, even if there is no evidence that person is infected or a carrier of the disease. Further, the Commissioner sets the terms, duration, and location of the detention, not an independent magistrate as required by PHL 2120.” (PHL 2120 is an existing law that allows for a process of isolation and quarantine, and does not circumvent Constitutional due process.)

Michael Kane of Teachers for Choice and other Medical Freedom advocates held a Rally and “Educational Protest” last month in Harlem to inform New Yorkers of this unlawful regulation, and that their Governor would like to reinstate it.

Nobody they spoke on the street knew about it, and almost everyone was shocked and even scared once they did know.

Follow the teachersforchoice.org blog to keep up to date on lawsuits challenging NYC’s illegal (and illogical and unscientific) vaccine mandates, and their efforts to educate the public about the ongoing threats to our freedoms.

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:

Yet, vaccine mandates still exist.

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.

“It is a matter of privacy to know who is or who isn’t”

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.

RI bill would financially penalize, double-tax the unvaccinated

U.S. Senator Samuel Bell (D-RI) recently introduced a bill that would fine unvaccinated Rhode Islanders $50 a month and double their personal income taxes.

This mandate extends to all residents age 16 and older, as well as non-residents who work in Rhode Island. Any requests for a medical exemption to the mandate must be signed and notarized by three doctors. However, the Department of Health has the power to reject any exemption it deems insufficient.

Although every single student and staff member at Columbia University is required to be vaccinated and boosted, they are once again mandated to wear masks in the classroom. The belief is that the masks are needed to protect these people from the coronavirus. Let me repeat: a fully vaccinated and boosted population (100% compliance) is still required to mask. This is the case at several U.S. universities.

Last year, the world saw the only nation to be 100% vaccinated experience a subsequent 20% rise in covid cases and cancel their Christmas celebrations. Covid in Gibraltar is still classed as “level three: high” by the CDC although many there are boosted as well.

If you can still catch the virus after getting injected (multiple times) then the vaccine doesn’t work. Vaccines make you immune to a virus and this one doesn’t. The Director of the CDC has clearly and definitively stated that the vaccines do not stop transmission of the virus.

The vaccines supposedly ensure that you won’t die from (with?) covid, but data and the persistent desire of some to keep everyone masked regardless of vaccination status, seems to indicate otherwise.

There is no logical or moral rationale for coercing or punishing anyone who does not take this vaccine which (like many medications) comes with the risk of serious side effects and cannot stop viral transmission. In fact, Pfizer has stated that covid cannot be eradicated and the (already highly survivable) virus will become endemic.

Instead of using scientific fact and logical reasoning to justify this divisive and very financially threatening bill, Senator Bell indulged in emotional web-spinning that provided no justification for it whatsoever. His infant son’s lung condition has made the Senator “more compassionate” and he is afraid his son won’t be able to interact with people. Senator Bell went on to say:

“Thousands of Rhode Islanders have died. I’ve had really painful calls from constituents who can’t go to the store because they’re immunocompromised, who have lost loved ones from the pandemic, who are really ill and not fully recovered.”

There are hundreds of viruses, bacteria and pathogens out there that could harm the immunocompromised. It’s too bad the vaccines will never rid the world of covid, and don’t have the full faith of the vaccinators who still want the vaccinated to mask. If they to want to keep masking the vaccinated, the vaccines must not be very effective. The vaccine makers have really let the immunocompromised down.

The American public deserves so much better than this Senator, who gave absolutely no scientific rationale to justify a financially punitive vaccine mandate. He thinks the vaccine commercials put out by the U.S. Government and funded by American taxpayers have made his argument for him, and he is hoping none of his constituents have wondered why the all the possible side effects aren’t named like they are in the other drug commercials.

Apparently this bill is unpopular with the public, in fact some Rhode Island residents called their representatives wondering if the bill was an internet hoax. Some Senators who originally supported it have since distanced themselves.

It is expected that this bill, which was introduced on March 1, 2022 without much press and was only recently brought to the public’s attention by a concerned Rhode Island citizen, will not pass. But these days, you cannot be sure of anything.