A lot of people folded, as you say, like a cheap deck of cards. Yes indeed. However, also, many brave people did stand up, but they were so heavily censored that even people such as ourselves, down here in the weeds of el gato's comments scetion, don't know about them. This is one reason why I transcribe, to show this. I hunt & hunt, and then hunt some more, and I do find things. Here's one from 2021 that I posted on my list just today (not the substack, though, not yet, too many others in line):
Pull-quote: "At no time in history, and I repeat, no time in history have the people that have been forcing others into compliance been the good guys."
PA State Representative Stephanie Borowicz
Medical Freedom Rally in support of SB 471 (Prohibiting COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates)
and SB 885 (Ensuring Unemployment Compensation for Unvaccinated Workers)
STEPHANIE BOROWICZ: So last year it was the shut down. We all remember that, right? This year it's mandates. So it's just tyranny in another form, isn't it?
It's a sad day that we have to stand here and fight for our medical freedom in America. I saw a perfect sign yesterday, other than the one back there that I love, the new one we joined in, I saw a perfect sign that said,
We aren't forcing you, we are just taking away everything else until you consent.
Does that sum it up or what? Well, we will not comply.
[cheers]
WOMAN'S VOICE: We will not comply!
STEPHANIE BOROWICZ: We will not be forced in America. Our healthcare workers who last year were heroes are now losing their jobs. At no time in history, and I repeat, no time in history, have the people that have been forcing others into compliance been the good guys. It's the truth. Those that are using coercion and force are never the ones on the right side of history. As [inaudible] always says, are you on the right side of history? It's never been on the right side of history. The city where the Statue of Liberty stands, those that are unvaccinated cannot go get a hamburger without showing papers? Does something not seem right? And—
[cheering, clapping]
We still have bills in the state house that need to be run. I just met with the Health Caucus team. We're going to be running hopefully Russ Diamond's* Medical Constitution Freedom amendment. That will be huge. We just passed out of the senate yesterday Senator Mastriano's** Medical Freedom Act.
[cheering, clapping]
We must run these bills. I have said over and time and time again, it is time to get in the fight. We are not, we need to be in this fight for medical freedom.
I have one story to share with you guys and then I'm done. A constituent, a lady that lives in my district, that I've been working with her to try to save her job, for her to file a medical exemption. And I have her story, if that's OK for me to read real quick.
[Reading from paper]: After an 11 year career at a prominent health care system my career came to an end on November 5th 2021 due to refusing getting a covid vaccine. On July 8, 2021 my husband and I found out we were expecting a new addition to our baby, to our family, a baby, number 4. A few weeks later, on August 25th 2021 the health care system informed us that by November 1st we were required to receive the covid vaccine. After prayerful consideration, research, and speaking with my OB GYN, we decided that we would wait until after I had the baby to get the vaccine. I reached out to the Employee Health to see if I could wait until after I had my baby to get the vaccine. I received a response from them that it would be OK to wait but I had to file for an exemption, and I would need to go the medical exemption route since my main concern was my baby, taking care of our baby. After being denied that medical exemption time and time again, I turned in my badge and walked out on November 5th after receiving an email from the system stating I was noncompliant, and did not comply with their policy. [end of reading]
I think that pretty much sums it up. So a healthcare worker who last year was our hero is now fired because she's just trying to protect her baby because she doesn't want to take the risk that there's a chance that that could harm her child.
So continue to stand. Continue to fight. Continue to be a voice of truth and reason in the times that we're living in. I'm proud to stand alongside you and Senator Mastriano and everyone else that's standing here today. So thank you for having me.
[cheering, clapping]
19:20
[END OF EXCERPT]
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Stephanie Borowicz, Republican representative for District 76.
I like your attitude, Transcriber B! It’s difficult when everyone I know that shouted Fake News in 2019 suddenly believed everything the News told them in 2020. My 86 year-old father-in-law called my wife last night (he barely talks to me anymore) to tell her he got his covid booster, RSV and flu shot. No doubt to instill in her mind that they are safe and effective.
Isn't she great! I am making an effort to find the rally speeches of people who spoke out in 2021 especially-- they have been so heavily censored-- but they are out there. She is one of several people who spoke at that rally.
SENATOR DOUG MASTRIANO: Can you believe we have experts in their field being fired because of a mandate? And what about natural immunity? Why is that off the table?
WOMAN'S VOICE: [inaudible] Free speech!
SENATOR DOUG MASTRIANO: Free speech as well. I mean, is this Soviet Russia that you'd be investigated for having an opinion? Really? So this is how far we've gone. And we have to stand. And you are modern day heroes, you're, you're putting a lot on the line by standing up against the man, the establishment, the beast. But you're modern day Americans here and you can change the course of history. Don't despair. I do believe we'll prevail in the end, but it comes comes with great sacrifice and great risk. But you're heroes to me.
The next speaker we have is a hero to Pennsylvania, I mean, ah, we do have some great champions in this building here, you've heard from a couple of them. The next one is Representative Dawn Keefer from York County, representing the great 92nd district.
[applause]
[to Dawn W. Keefer] Thank you.
[applause]
37:33
REPRESENTATIVE DAWN W. KEEFER: Thank you, Senator, for leading this charge, and thank you all for being out here today. It's very encouraging, and thank you for standing strong.
Medicine is not one-size-fits-all, right? We all know what's best for our bodies and let us work with our health care providers. But when I have health care providers coming to me, coming into my office, frustrated that they took a Hippocratic Oath and they are being forced to work against everything that they have known to be true, when they are writing, writing, ah, instructions on a tablet, not putting then in your charts for fear that their charts are being reviewed and they're getting disciplined.
Why are we are not treating? Right? Why can't we treat for this? If you have inflammation give me anti-inflammatories, if you can't breathe, you give asthmatic medicine. This is what we've always done. Natural immunity, herd immunity, this is all scientifically based. But if you don't go along with the narrative that they have now, right, they silence you all. So I commend you all for being here, for standing up, for not being silenced, because that's the problem right now, everybody's being silenced.
And I know there's a lot on the line. And I, and I appreciate the bill that our the senator has here. But if you think Harrisburg is going to save you from this, you are sorely mistaken. It's not coming. It's not getting through. This is going to take personal agency. This is going to be you fighting. There are risks, we don't know what all of those are, but you have to stand up and fight.
Why am I not advocating for the vaccine? Because I don't know what your health circumstances are. It's irresponsible for me to do that. It's not one size fits all.
[applause]
It's very irresponsible to do.
[applause]
So we have to start using commonsense. We need to get back to the science that they always, you know, are championing. What about the science? There's no science in this.
The governor just issued the mask, said that I'm going to lift the mask mandate. Now first, remember, he said, I didn't do it, I didn't do it, the Secretary of Health, or the acting Secretary of Health, she issued this school mask mandate. But something magical's going to happen on January, I think it's 17th or something? Seventeenth, somehow, some way, school boards are now going to have capacity to make those health decisions and safety decisions for the schools. Something magical's going to happen on the 17th of January, I guess the virus is really a smart virus and it knows.
So so again, so this is the kind of a tyranny that we have. And unless you stand up, unless you make sure that your voice is heard, unless you start taking actions to protect your health, to protect your children, to protect your family, you will get double downed on this.
So your jobs are at risk, are at stake, and I get that. And I don't know where everybody's at personally, but these, you gotta to figure out, what hill are you willing to die on?
We have a, a crisis right now in our healthcare facilities, we don't have the manpower, with or without these mandates that they have, we already are short-staffed. So this mass exodus that they're about ready to witness in Pennsylvania, is going to cripple us. When you call 911 and nobody answers the phone, what are you going to do?
Nobody has thought this out. They thumbed their nose at all of you, saying, you know, it's not a big deal, when the date comes, you'll all acquiesce, you'll all come around, right, you'll get the jab, and it'll all be good, it's just that little minority. And that's what the attorneys have been telling the school boards, that's what they've been telling their their companies, right, just do it, people will come around.
You have to decide, are you going to coming around?
CROWD: NO!
REPRESENTATIVE DAWN W. KEEFER: Everybody needs to fight, we have your back, we're going to continue to do everything that we can to to stand with you, to fight against this. But this is going to take all of us, all of us, locking arms and working together to push back against this. This is your constitutional right, your bodily autonomy, right? These are fundamentals.
[applause]
And if you concede on this, it's just the first step. It's just the first step. So stand strong and fight. Thank you all.
A lot of people folded, as you say, like a cheap deck of cards. Yes indeed. However, also, many brave people did stand up, but they were so heavily censored that even people such as ourselves, down here in the weeds of el gato's comments scetion, don't know about them. This is one reason why I transcribe, to show this. I hunt & hunt, and then hunt some more, and I do find things. Here's one from 2021 that I posted on my list just today (not the substack, though, not yet, too many others in line):
Pull-quote: "At no time in history, and I repeat, no time in history have the people that have been forcing others into compliance been the good guys."
PA State Representative Stephanie Borowicz
Medical Freedom Rally in support of SB 471 (Prohibiting COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates)
and SB 885 (Ensuring Unemployment Compensation for Unvaccinated Workers)
Front Capitol Steps, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Posted November 8, 2021
https://senatormastriano.com/2021/11/08/110921/
TRANSCRIPT - EXCERPT
15:27
STEPHANIE BOROWICZ: So last year it was the shut down. We all remember that, right? This year it's mandates. So it's just tyranny in another form, isn't it?
It's a sad day that we have to stand here and fight for our medical freedom in America. I saw a perfect sign yesterday, other than the one back there that I love, the new one we joined in, I saw a perfect sign that said,
We aren't forcing you, we are just taking away everything else until you consent.
Does that sum it up or what? Well, we will not comply.
[cheers]
WOMAN'S VOICE: We will not comply!
STEPHANIE BOROWICZ: We will not be forced in America. Our healthcare workers who last year were heroes are now losing their jobs. At no time in history, and I repeat, no time in history, have the people that have been forcing others into compliance been the good guys. It's the truth. Those that are using coercion and force are never the ones on the right side of history. As [inaudible] always says, are you on the right side of history? It's never been on the right side of history. The city where the Statue of Liberty stands, those that are unvaccinated cannot go get a hamburger without showing papers? Does something not seem right? And—
[cheering, clapping]
We still have bills in the state house that need to be run. I just met with the Health Caucus team. We're going to be running hopefully Russ Diamond's* Medical Constitution Freedom amendment. That will be huge. We just passed out of the senate yesterday Senator Mastriano's** Medical Freedom Act.
[cheering, clapping]
We must run these bills. I have said over and time and time again, it is time to get in the fight. We are not, we need to be in this fight for medical freedom.
I have one story to share with you guys and then I'm done. A constituent, a lady that lives in my district, that I've been working with her to try to save her job, for her to file a medical exemption. And I have her story, if that's OK for me to read real quick.
[Reading from paper]: After an 11 year career at a prominent health care system my career came to an end on November 5th 2021 due to refusing getting a covid vaccine. On July 8, 2021 my husband and I found out we were expecting a new addition to our baby, to our family, a baby, number 4. A few weeks later, on August 25th 2021 the health care system informed us that by November 1st we were required to receive the covid vaccine. After prayerful consideration, research, and speaking with my OB GYN, we decided that we would wait until after I had the baby to get the vaccine. I reached out to the Employee Health to see if I could wait until after I had my baby to get the vaccine. I received a response from them that it would be OK to wait but I had to file for an exemption, and I would need to go the medical exemption route since my main concern was my baby, taking care of our baby. After being denied that medical exemption time and time again, I turned in my badge and walked out on November 5th after receiving an email from the system stating I was noncompliant, and did not comply with their policy. [end of reading]
I think that pretty much sums it up. So a healthcare worker who last year was our hero is now fired because she's just trying to protect her baby because she doesn't want to take the risk that there's a chance that that could harm her child.
So continue to stand. Continue to fight. Continue to be a voice of truth and reason in the times that we're living in. I'm proud to stand alongside you and Senator Mastriano and everyone else that's standing here today. So thank you for having me.
[cheering, clapping]
19:20
[END OF EXCERPT]
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Stephanie Borowicz, Republican representative for District 76.
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/House_bio.cfm?id=1838
*Russ Diamond, Republican representative for District 102.
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/House_bio.cfm?id=1686
** Senator Doug Mastriano's website is https://senatormastriano.com
I like your attitude, Transcriber B! It’s difficult when everyone I know that shouted Fake News in 2019 suddenly believed everything the News told them in 2020. My 86 year-old father-in-law called my wife last night (he barely talks to me anymore) to tell her he got his covid booster, RSV and flu shot. No doubt to instill in her mind that they are safe and effective.
I hear you, GLK, I really do.
Thank you for all your hard work and the time involved.
Thanks for reading, and for your kind comment.
You have the support of millions today you courageous soul.
Isn't she great! I am making an effort to find the rally speeches of people who spoke out in 2021 especially-- they have been so heavily censored-- but they are out there. She is one of several people who spoke at that rally.
This is one of my personal favorites from that same rally:
Medical Freedom Rally in support of SB 471 (Prohibiting COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates)
and SB 885 (Ensuring Unemployment Compensation for Unvaccinated Workers)
Front Capitol Steps, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Posted November 8, 2021
https://senatormastriano.com/2021/11/08/110921/
TRANSCRIPT
36:36
SENATOR DOUG MASTRIANO: Can you believe we have experts in their field being fired because of a mandate? And what about natural immunity? Why is that off the table?
WOMAN'S VOICE: [inaudible] Free speech!
SENATOR DOUG MASTRIANO: Free speech as well. I mean, is this Soviet Russia that you'd be investigated for having an opinion? Really? So this is how far we've gone. And we have to stand. And you are modern day heroes, you're, you're putting a lot on the line by standing up against the man, the establishment, the beast. But you're modern day Americans here and you can change the course of history. Don't despair. I do believe we'll prevail in the end, but it comes comes with great sacrifice and great risk. But you're heroes to me.
The next speaker we have is a hero to Pennsylvania, I mean, ah, we do have some great champions in this building here, you've heard from a couple of them. The next one is Representative Dawn Keefer from York County, representing the great 92nd district.
[applause]
[to Dawn W. Keefer] Thank you.
[applause]
37:33
REPRESENTATIVE DAWN W. KEEFER: Thank you, Senator, for leading this charge, and thank you all for being out here today. It's very encouraging, and thank you for standing strong.
Medicine is not one-size-fits-all, right? We all know what's best for our bodies and let us work with our health care providers. But when I have health care providers coming to me, coming into my office, frustrated that they took a Hippocratic Oath and they are being forced to work against everything that they have known to be true, when they are writing, writing, ah, instructions on a tablet, not putting then in your charts for fear that their charts are being reviewed and they're getting disciplined.
Why are we are not treating? Right? Why can't we treat for this? If you have inflammation give me anti-inflammatories, if you can't breathe, you give asthmatic medicine. This is what we've always done. Natural immunity, herd immunity, this is all scientifically based. But if you don't go along with the narrative that they have now, right, they silence you all. So I commend you all for being here, for standing up, for not being silenced, because that's the problem right now, everybody's being silenced.
And I know there's a lot on the line. And I, and I appreciate the bill that our the senator has here. But if you think Harrisburg is going to save you from this, you are sorely mistaken. It's not coming. It's not getting through. This is going to take personal agency. This is going to be you fighting. There are risks, we don't know what all of those are, but you have to stand up and fight.
Why am I not advocating for the vaccine? Because I don't know what your health circumstances are. It's irresponsible for me to do that. It's not one size fits all.
[applause]
It's very irresponsible to do.
[applause]
So we have to start using commonsense. We need to get back to the science that they always, you know, are championing. What about the science? There's no science in this.
The governor just issued the mask, said that I'm going to lift the mask mandate. Now first, remember, he said, I didn't do it, I didn't do it, the Secretary of Health, or the acting Secretary of Health, she issued this school mask mandate. But something magical's going to happen on January, I think it's 17th or something? Seventeenth, somehow, some way, school boards are now going to have capacity to make those health decisions and safety decisions for the schools. Something magical's going to happen on the 17th of January, I guess the virus is really a smart virus and it knows.
So so again, so this is the kind of a tyranny that we have. And unless you stand up, unless you make sure that your voice is heard, unless you start taking actions to protect your health, to protect your children, to protect your family, you will get double downed on this.
So your jobs are at risk, are at stake, and I get that. And I don't know where everybody's at personally, but these, you gotta to figure out, what hill are you willing to die on?
We have a, a crisis right now in our healthcare facilities, we don't have the manpower, with or without these mandates that they have, we already are short-staffed. So this mass exodus that they're about ready to witness in Pennsylvania, is going to cripple us. When you call 911 and nobody answers the phone, what are you going to do?
Nobody has thought this out. They thumbed their nose at all of you, saying, you know, it's not a big deal, when the date comes, you'll all acquiesce, you'll all come around, right, you'll get the jab, and it'll all be good, it's just that little minority. And that's what the attorneys have been telling the school boards, that's what they've been telling their their companies, right, just do it, people will come around.
You have to decide, are you going to coming around?
CROWD: NO!
REPRESENTATIVE DAWN W. KEEFER: Everybody needs to fight, we have your back, we're going to continue to do everything that we can to to stand with you, to fight against this. But this is going to take all of us, all of us, locking arms and working together to push back against this. This is your constitutional right, your bodily autonomy, right? These are fundamentals.
[applause]
And if you concede on this, it's just the first step. It's just the first step. So stand strong and fight. Thank you all.
[applause, cheers]
41:56
[END]
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
Doug Mastriano, see:
https://senatormastriano.com
Dawn W. Keefer, see:
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/House_bio.cfm?id=1748