August 9, 2021. Noon. Outside NY City Hall. The protest started with a HUGE mural of Mayor de Blasio in a Che t-shirt, holding a bloody head of a decapitated Statue of Liberty.
Hundreds were there to protest a vaccine mandate for entering gyms, indoor restaurants, and entertainment venues that is set to take effect on August 16.
Flickr Slide Show
The messages for the Mayor included: Just say NO to Vaccine Passports and forced vaccinations. My Body My Choice.
VIDEOS: Part 1
.Part 2 – There was a heckler … Liberal Activist/Agitator and ACTOR @Waltermasterson dressed in medical garb while taunting the protestors, who gave it right back at him. Too bad the Mayor was in Maine vacationing, he missed all the ‘fun’ as “We will not comply!” rang outside New York City Hall.
Liberal Activist/Agitator @Waltermasterson likes to troll protesters but is just as misinformed, if not more so, about the covid pandemic than the people he harasses
Walter is a perfect example of someone who preaches about covid while knowing nothing about the pandemic pic.twitter.com/fQzy5ajFcY
.Part 3 – As I left, I heard a respectful Pledge of Allegiance with a slight alteration – to include mention of the Constitution.
And some extra info that the media and government works hard to debunk:
“The CDC is actively under counting vaccinated COVID cases. They admit that the injections do not stop transmission. They tell you that you still have to wear masks. The injections might reduce symptoms. They do not provide lasting immunity like a Polio vaccine does. We know this. This is the science. These injections are not real vaccines. We need to realize that we are mandating something during an emergency that is just a symptom-reducing treatment at best. There are other treatments, but the doctors who dare treat COVID successfully without resorting to an RNA injection are censored from the mainstream news media and internet. Their opinions are more difficult to find, but the information is out there. Actively censoring dissenting medical and scientific opinions contributes to mask and vaccine “hesitancy” and so does forcing a vaccine passport down our collective throats.”
In conclusion: What was most important to this crowd, it seemed, was that losing freedom to medical tyranny in favor of a lawsuit-free agenda favoring Big Pharma was NOT acceptable. This was a point made by a politically diverse crowd. Some agreed with taking the injections and wearing masks, and some disagreed. Some were conservative, some were liberal, a diverse array of pandemic opinions and political views. All agreed with “My Body My Choice”. And said NO to mandating injections and masks and vaccine passports.
[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall]
June 26, 2021. NYC. The “Bruce Springsteen On Broadway” concert drew dozens of protestors outside the theatre objecting to proof of vaccination from the audience.
Just say NO to Vaccine Passports! Vaccine Passports are authoritarian, illiberal and wrong.
“Protesters held signs including “no vax passports” and “Bruce Springsteen is for segregation on Broadway.” The small group also shouted slogans such as “stop segregation” as attendees arrived for the show.” [Newsweek]
Flickr Slide show of the protest
.Part 1 video: As the protestors approached the theatre, they chanted “Vaccine Mandates Got To Go!” they squared off across 44th st, challenging the concert-goers in front of the St James.
“Those of us who have healthy immune systems should be able to enjoy these freedoms just like anybody else!”
“Between a pro-lockdown govt that ‘may’ temporarily lift some restrictions for a few weeks only to reimpose them in the autumn & a pro-lockdown ‘opposition’ that wouldn’t lift restrictions at all, even temporarily, we have a phoney war going on at present.”
Considering there was a glut of media outside, there were just a few published reports of the protest; not what I expected.
Just google “no vaccine passport protest Springsteen” to find links to articles, but most simply linked to Newsweek, making no mention of the counter- protest til I found “app.com”.
“Bruce Springsteen fans were not the only ones at the St. James Theatre on Saturday for the first performance of “Springsteen on Broadway” since the COVID-19 pandemic. About three dozen, vocal, anti-vaccine protesters were also outside the theater on Saturday evening. They voiced displeasure that the show is seating only fans who have been vaccinated from the novel coronavirus.” [app.com]
Unfortunately,the NY POST photo, taken outside the theatre, was labeled as only “FANS”? No mention of the protestors.
The next picture shows more closely the protestors vs the audience stand-off. Plus, this was a loud No Vaccine Passports protest, so reporting them as only “Fans” seemed an odd omission.
Part 2 video The exchanges were personal regarding the vaccine passport segregation, the discrimination, as they chanted, “My Body, My Choice”. The signs they carried, many were people who took the vaccine to “protect their grandmas” and ended up dying. “They believed in that vaccine and now they’re not here.”
Part 3 video. A war of words as ‘instigators’ from the audience-side confronted the protestors by spilling into and blocking the street. “Shame on you” was now the protestor chant as the police sent everyone back to their own sides with another protestor chant, “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Vaccine Mandate’s Got to Go.”
Part 4 video. The protestors continued challenging the people waiting to enter the St James theatre who were apparently regarding the photo posters they held. These “… people who actually died from the vaccine … if you are laughing at them, then you’ve got to be really sick in the head. And I’d be ashamed to be standing next to you …” THEN, a guy RAN passed us towards 8th avenue and the crowd went after him shouting “shame on you”. (Never found out why) But, the result was the protest was now closer to 8th avenue (in front of the Majestic Theatre) Two women were busy with “Try the Magnetic Challenge”. Offering Free Jewelry to anyone who was magnetic (from the vaccine).
The black woman at the end of the video, unfortunately her accent was difficult to understand, but she was obviously upset. “You can’t enter a Broadway show … unless you’re vaccinated. And you guys think that’s okay? What country is this? I wanta know… is this Communist China? This is United States of America …. and now freedom is being taken away from America…”
”This sort of discrimination is ethically repugnant. What have the un vaccinated done to deserve to be placed in this sort of under-class … (because they) happen to have opted out of the Covid vaccination program?”
“The show was attended by all the beautiful vaccinated people. Gov. Murphy was there as were “Little” Steven Van Zandt and U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg with his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, as reported by Theaterly, and a sold-out house of vaccinated fans according to the rules set by the theatre …. and the Boss.” [NJ101.5]
What sucks is that I agree that the un vaccinated are the new target of segregation and prejudice. I don’t understand why those that got the COVID shots should care who else did if they’re protected from the virus. But in today’s world, it’s not about what they choose to do, it’s about making sure that you do it, too.” [NJ101.5]
Jujamcyn Theatres, the company that operates the St. James, stands by this decision, even after the protests.
“One of the things we’ve learned this year is that the health of each of us depends on the actions of all of us,” Jordan Roth, President of Jujamcyn, tells TheWrap. “My health depends on you, and yours on me. That’s what it is to live in a community.” [The Wrap]
”If we look to other regions where indoor hospitality has been opened up a long, long time ago, we do not see higher spikes in hospitalizations in those regions, nor do they perform significantly worse than regions with indoor hospitality shut down. Sweden kept indoor hospitality open throughout the vast majority of the pandemic, yet experienced among the lowest age-adjusted excess mortality levels in Europe, lower than Netherlands, Northern Ireland, France, England, Austria, Spain, Belgium, and Italy, all countries with protracted lock downs.
Similarly, Florida opened up back in September 2020, while instituting protective measures for its care homes, and ended up with lower age-adjusted excess mortality than many lock down regions, such as California. Texas opened up completely in early March of this year and saw no spike in cases or deaths (in fact, they declined).
‘Since when have we decided that vaccination is a strict civic obligation, rather than an optional private choice? Since when have we decided that those who opt out of a vaccine should be treated differently to everyone else? Surely this is their moral and legal right.” [https://gript.ie/domestic-vaccine-passports-have-no-place-in-a-free-and-open-society/]
[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]
The next picture shows more closely the protestors vs the audience stand-off. Plus, this was a loud No Vaccine Passports protest, so reporting them as only “Fans” seemed an odd omission.
