New York Mandate Podcast

“These are dangerous times that we're living in. . . . Most people that have lived on planet Earth have lived under governments that were totalitarian and authoritarian, and America was different. An…

“People need to work to earn a living. Obviously we need money to live and, you know, buy food and pay rent and all this stuff, but you also need to work for a living because it gives you purpose. Be…

“People are being harmed by this vaccine, whether the news reports it or not. There's enough resources out here where you can find that people are being harmed by the vaccine, and where there is a ch…

“Right now they're doing things little by little. They're slowly taking away certain freedoms. Everyone said, ‘Oh no, they would never do that. They would never, they would never!’ But little by litt…

“We are at a crossroads, and it could go one way or the other. People have to stop complying. People have to fight back and say, ‘No, we're not doing this anymore,’ because tomorrow afternoon they ca…

“Everything is happening too fast, too soon. We're going like a hundred miles an hour. The life that I lived when I was a child was stellar compared to what's going on now. I can't believe what the c…

“I loved working with the kids. I loved helping them. I loved seeing them grow and develop and become mentally stronger and emotionally stronger and socially better. . . . It was a very good job. I l…

“A lot of colleagues and people believe that this was our choice: ‘You must have had the money to be able to do this. You must be okay, and that's why you chose this.’ You have no clue! No, I chose t…

“What's really safe for the kids at this point? Because what's going on in the schools is we have shortages. We have terrible stories of these people that should not be with children that are in scho…

“I've been watching the news when they talk about the mass exodus from the NYPD. . . . Every single one of those police experts, every single former police commissioner—not one of them mentioned a va…

“As Christians, we believe God owns our body, bought with a price. First Corinthians, chapter six tells us that this is a temple of the holy spirit. We believe that Christ shed his blood on that cros…

“When I asked the doctor, ‘Why are you saying that this couldn’t be from the vaccine?’ he said, ‘Because we don't have enough long-term data to determine that it's from the vaccine, so I can’t charac…

“I think we need a labor party. I think that the only thing that's going to break the Democrat-Republican nonsense and the Third Way politics that they've created is by creating a third party that fo…

“It was very hard to be told, after 20 years and two degrees and all the certifications and, like you said, a lot of expertise in my field, ‘Oh, it's dangerous for you to be—you can't be—around the c…

In this episode of the New York Mandate podcast, I talk with civil rights attorney Sujata Gibson, who is representing plaintiffs in two lawsuits opposing New York City vaccine mandates, Kane v. de Bl…

“It doesn't seem right that you're forced to make a decision and pick up and leave where you were born, where you have your job, where you have your friends, where you have your home and your whole l…

“Freedom of choice is a big deal. It's a big thing. There's one thing to have a public health emergency. And there's another to have draconian laws and measures and mandates in place. At the end of t…

“Alternative views have been sort of shut down and demonized. And I think that if we were to be given more public light, people would see that we are just people too. We’re not these evil people who …

“The mandate came down that you’ll get [the vaccine] or you’ll lose your job. And that was a lot of anxiety. I would go back and forth with it. I would say, ‘I should just comply.’ This is a career t…

“My body’s my only one I have, so to me, the difficult choice would be to just give everything up that I believe in to keep a job. I’ve always been a fighter. It’s who I am. So I’m not going to just …