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New York City Committees on Oversight and Investigations & Civil Service and Labor
Gail A. Brewer, Chair
September 9, 2022
https://councilnyc.viebit.com/player.php?hash=U2mDNKAEkDJA
Source:
https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/Calendar.aspx
TRANSCRIPT
4:20:04
SOPHY MEDINA: Good afternoon. My name is Sophy Medina. I was born and raised here and have lived here my entire life except for my time in the marines. This is my family [points to husband and two children]. Tommy and I are firefighters on forced leave without pay because we didn't take a shot that proved to be useless at best and harmful at worst. Five firefighters are suddenly dead after the vaccine mandates and many others are quietly suffering with adverse reactions and they are afraid to speak up publicly.
We both worked throughout the worst of the pandemic. We worked without proper protective equipment and we both acquired natural immunity. We went from essential to expendable and no one seems to care, which is ironic if you remember the banging of the pots and pans at 7 PM every night.
My face was used many times by the FDNY to recruit and promote diversity by the FDNY. I was here in these chambers, I remember your face when I was testifying about the terrible treatment of certain women on this job. But since these mandates, and the FDNY's problem to recruit and retain women like myself, since the mandates we have been shunned from our place of work and from society in New York City.
But there were no vaccine mandates to ride the trains and buses where vaccinated and unvaccinated were side-by-side this whole time. Divisive messaging from the top down has relegated my family and I, and many others like me, to become second class citizens in our own city.
We've worked in public service our whole lives. Tommy in Sanitation before this, myself as a lifeguard as a teenager,
a marine before, and a firefighter now.
Being a firefighter is not just a job for any of us. It's a vocation, truly a calling that takes a certain type of person who's both tough and compassionate. It's a dedication to serve when bad things happen, and to help people on their worst days and their most vulnerable moments. We've responded to victims of assault [time alarm sounds], I've translated between patients and advanced medical providers, and we've operated at fires with little regard for our own safety and lives.
TOMMY: She can take my two minutes over.
GALE A. BREWER: OK.
SOPHY MEDINA: Tommy has been twice decorated by the FDNY for going above and beyond at fires, one of them during he pandemic, no less. We've never asked anyone's vaccination status
when providing help when called.
These mandates have taken away our ability to provide for our family. It is still impossible to find work in this city, even after the shift from the CDC.
The constant strain and pressure during this time has been really hard for my family and I.Years of hard work and saved money for our future have gone down the drain and will affect us on a generational level, as it's taking away from our children and their future, and it's taking away from our parents, who we've been preparing to care for in their golden years.
Our kids were forced out of their swimming classes and out of public school, since we won't subject them to participate in a system where their parents aren't allowed.
Instead of recognizing that our stance was indeed right, we are still being punished by the City of New York. Our religious exemptions were denied and our medical exemptions are being sat on by the very people who are supposed to be preserving and fighting for our rights.
There's no state of emergency. And the city is bleeding out money trying to recruit while many of us are out in the cold, wanting to work. And the city is losing valuable years of expertise. City jobs used to be coveted for providing job stability and now no one wants these jobs because they have witnessed the disrespect to all the city workers who chose to stand up for themselves.
Never forget that first responders were told the air was safe to breathe after 9/11, and never forget that we were told that this crap was safe and effective. And here we are now.
Thank you.
GALE W. BREWER: Thank you very much. And thank you to the family for being here.
4:24:01
[END]
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Transcriber's notes:
You can listen to a podcast interview with Sophy Medina posted May 10, 2022 at
https://nooneyouknow.substack.com/p/new-york-mandate-podcast-ep-1-sophy#details
See also
https://www.bravestforchoice.org/
Rapid Progression of Angioimmunoblastic T Cell Lymphoma Following BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine Booster Shot: A Case Report
Since nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccines strongly activate T follicular helper cells, it is important to explore the possible impact of approved SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines on neoplasms affecting this cell type. Herein, we report and discuss unexpected rapid progression of lymphomatous lesions after administration of a BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine booster in a man recently diagnosed with AITL.
💉 Former NFL star Cedric Killings, 45, died on June 21st from pancreatic cancer. Cedric famously survived a broken neck in 2007, but his turbo cancer bested him.
Killings leaves behind a wife and three children. I couldn’t find anything more about his cancer, his treatment, and so on. Medical privacy, you know.
💉 On Wednesday, Mike Ness, 61, beloved frontman for Los Angeles punk rock band Social Distortion, announced on Instagram he has stage one tonsil cancer, which for obvious reasons makes it hard to sing.
Social Distortion is canceling its planned summer tour and postponing its upcoming album release.
On his social media, Ness told fans “The recovery from surgery is a day-by-day process and in three weeks we start radiation and that should be the last therapy I need. The team of doctors are certain that once finished with this course, I will be able to start the healing and recovery process. We expect a full recovery enabling me to live a long and productive life.”
We pray for a good report from Ness’ doctors and a complete recovery so the senior citizen can resume belting out his punk rock creations.
💉 Irish A-list actor Ray Stevenson, 58, died suddenly and unexpectedly at the end of May on a movie set. Ray is well known, having starred in top-billed productions like Thor, Rome, King Arthur, the Three Musketeers, Dexter, the Punisher, Vikings, Star Wars, and many other recent top Hollywood offerings.
On May 20th, Ray was in Italy filming a new Paramount Pictures comedy called ‘Cassino In Ischia,’ when he “suffered a sudden illness” and was rushed to the hospital. Ray died the next day.
And that’s all we get. Isn’t it odd there’s not more news about a top-rated, well-known actor’s sudden and unexpected on-set death? Medical privacy, please.
Ray is survived by his wife, Italian anthropologist Elisabetta Caraccia, and their three sons.
Irish A-list actor Ray Stevenson, 58, died suddenly and unexpectedly at the end of May on a movie set.
1,884 Athlete Cardiac Arrests in 2.5 Years, 1,310 Dead
https://slaynews.com/news/1884-athlete-cardiac-arrests-in-2-5-years-1310-dead/
1,884 Athlete Cardiac Arrests in 2.5 Years, 1,310 Dead
I'm sure this at least 10x normal rates, but the article fails to show the normal rates.
Joesthetics, YouTube Bodybuilding Star, Dead at 30 from Aneurysm after 4 COVID-19 mRNA Jabs ...and shortly after leaving a video testimony about the whole affair. ...
A YouTube bodybuilding star known as Joesthetics has died at the age of 30, according to posts shared on social media by his friends and girlfriend.
German fitness influencer Jo Lindner, who had 8.5million followers on Instagram and almost 500 million views on his YouTube channel, suffered an aneurysm on Friday according to his girlfriend Nicha. ...
I still don't know of anyone who has died from the jab or of turbo cancer or any odd heart attacks of young people. Just saying.
GNL says
I still don't know of anyone who has died from the jab or of turbo cancer or any odd heart attacks of young people. Just saying.
Do you think it's a conspiracy theory and the jab is safe?
Why is the government and media doing these things. And by "things" I mean the Big 4...1. open borders, 2. plandemic(s), 3. race baiting and 4. focusing on LGB. Those are the Big 4s as I see it.
Unless we can get the government to drop what they're contributing/enabling/causing these problems, we as a nation will NEVER be able to break the chains that are ever so steadily tightening around our wrists. Shameful.
It’s going to happen.
Prepare.
But what is the overall reason? To stay in power or to crash the west? Or other?
Robert, C.N., Pharm Tech.
@Robertvegan7
Reaction to the Vaxx
This is a reported and known reaction
I still don't know of anyone who has died from the jab or of turbo cancer or any odd heart attacks of young people. Just saying.
GNL says
I still don't know of anyone who has died from the jab or of turbo cancer or any odd heart attacks of young people. Just saying.
I sure do.
💉 You’re not going to believe this headline from Science Insider (a Science.org publication), but it actually happened:
Now, to be perfectly fair, the article does its damndest to claim that vaccine-induced long covid injuries “seem very rare” and probably happen less often than virus-induced long covid. I don’t agree with or believe this analysis, and think it was only included to evade journalistic censorship.
Apart from those lame attempts to reassure nervous jab-takers, here’s what Science Insider said about the "safest and most effective vaccines in history":
[L]ike all vaccines, those targeting the coronavirus can cause side effects in some people, including rare cases of abnormal blood clotting and heart inflammation. Another apparent complication, a debilitating suite of symptoms that resembles Long Covid, has been more elusive, its link to vaccination unclear and its diagnostic features ill-defined. But in recent months, what some call Long Vax has gained wider acceptance among doctors and scientists, and some are now working to better understand and treat its symptoms.
“You see one or two patients and you wonder if it’s a coincidence,” said Anne Louise Oaklander, a neurologist and researcher at Harvard Medical School. “But by the time you’ve seen 10, 20,” she continued, trailing off. “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”
… [R]esearchers and clinicians are increasingly finding some alignment with known medical conditions. One is small fiber neuropathy, a condition [Dr.] Oaklander studies, in which nerve damage can cause tingling or electric shock–like sensations, burning pain, and blood circulation problems. The second is a more nebulous syndrome, with symptoms sometimes triggered by small fiber neuropathy, called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). It can involve muscle weakness, swings in heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, and brain fog.
… Postvaccination illness is “a long, relentless disease,” said Lawrence Purpura, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University[.]
The article even coined a catchy new term for the symptoms, “Long Vax.” Just think about how significant it is they’re finally putting a name on it. Science Insider speculated, don’t cough up your coffee, that the injuries might be caused by the SPIKE PROTEIN, which the jabs force peoples’ cells to keep on making for months and months. Or longer.
If only anyone could have known.
Science Insider ruefully admitted that, so far, there are no known treatments to help those suffering from Long Vax. There’s no magic vaccine for THAT. The article reported promising early anecdotes about plasma exchange, where people’s blood is washed outside their bodies and then squirted back in, which showed initial improvements in patients, but then they “recently returned with worsening symptoms.”
Is it perhaps time for a new Operation Warp Speed? Don’t count on it.
The researchers, who were 100% sure the jabs were safe and effective, are baffled. Maybe the Long Vax came back after blood-washing because patients’ cells were still making spike? Don’t ask me, I’m just a lawyer, not a nano-biological weapons engineer.
Still, the fact the article appeared at all, and in an orthodox publication, is progress.
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