My Testimony To The New York City Council—Annotated/ Video

I gave 15 years of my life, but only got two minutes of their time. I think I made my point though.

On December 19, there was open testimony at the meeting of the NYC Council Committee on Civil Service and Labor. I spoke at the urging of two fine labor organizations, New York Teachers for Choice and New York Bravest for Choice. I was only given two minutes to speak about being fired for declining the mRNA injection, which had been mandated under an unprecedented Emergency Use Authorization.¹ I tried to make the most of it.

My name is Garrett Ramirez. I was an NYC Educational Assistant with Special Needs Students and I worked in public schools for over 15 years, including through the pandemic where I contracted the virus in 2020.² I was then suspended without pay for six months for declining the Covid shot. The Department of Labor restricted me from receiving unemployment benefits while I was suspended.³ At the close of this six months without income, I was then fired for declining the Covid shot.⁴

It is now 2023. The mandate has been lifted, but I have not received an offer to return, nor the backpay to which I am entitled.⁵ I like to say that the hiring mandate has been lifted, but not the firing mandate. Everyone terminated stays terminated. Everyone put on the chopping block by this city is still bleeding—presumably as a warning to anyone else who might think about standing up for their rights and their health.

I have submitted a folder to you with five peer-reviewed journal articles and five university hospital studies.⁶ This is a small sample of the accredited science that undermines the Big Pharma claim that the so-called vaccines are safe and effective.

Video clip courtesy of Children’s Health Defense-NY

I don’t want to hear about the “Nobel Prize winning mRNA shot.” In 1949, the Nobel Committee awarded its prize in medicine to the inventor of the frontal lobotomy. The BBC recalls that “Lobotomists were often progressive reformers.” It was promoted “as a cure for everything from serious mental illness to post-natal depression.” Meanwhile, psychiatrists in the Soviet Union rejected it as too dehumanizing! It was soon “discovered to have a fatality rate of 15%.” Years later, victims and their families campaigned to have it rescinded, but the Nobel Foundation refused to recognize them.

Frankly I don’t expect much better from you. If examples like the 20th century forced sterilizations and 1950s blacklists⁷ are any precedent, my satisfaction will come through the courts. But I know the City of New York owes all of us for the original violation of our rights, and for the subsequent pain and suffering. The pain and suffering accumulates each day that the injustice goes unaddressed. The sooner you acknowledge and reverse it, the less the damage there will ultimately be to the City of New York

I hope that everyone on the council have all gotten their Pfizer checks because God knows they’ve earned them (Vicki Paladino excepted!). The ever-growing influence of Big Pharma hasn’t increased the public’s health, but reduced it, actually lowering American life expectancy over the past 20 years. This cannibalistic industry is who you entrusted our health to. In deference to this corporate establishment you threw away 10, 20 years of service from these city workers. It’s for this corporate establishment that you shredded the Civil Rights Act and the Bill of Rights.

The social contract of this city lies shattered. It is a grim warning to the entire country. I fear a society this corrupt is doomed to collapse, and that collapse isn’t going to spare you.

We the people have been vindicated, in history, in science, and in the eyes of God.

This chamber is condemned.

1. “Emergency Use Authorization” is a product of the post-9/11 era and was supposed to only be deployed in response to bioterrorist attacks. Numerous products issued under EUA were subsequently found to be dangerous and ineffective. To quote one peer-reviewed study, “The purpose of an EUA is to allow for the use of unapproved medical countermeasures.” - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8401346/

2. I had no symptoms, but my infection was shown by an antibody test I took in September 2020. NY Teachers for Choice had launched a campaign to resist the mandate for PCR testing of school employees that fall, and I wanted to have the antibody test to establish my acquired natural immunity. A top medical professor at University of California-San Francisco has since called for a boycott of PCR testing as it ultimately does more harm than good for public health.

3. Denial of unemployment insurance was a widespread policy for all those whose religious exemption from the Covid mandate was rejected.

4. One week before I was formally terminated, the celebrated science journal Nature published a study which found that the unvaccinated were being discriminated against. Of course, if the peer-reviewed research about natural immunity to Covid wasn’t relevant to Eric Adam’s decree, why should one more study matter?

5. In August 2023, the NY State Supreme Court ruled that the firing of a vaccine-resistant nurse in Buffalo was “irrational, violative of public policy and contrary to the interests of justice.” The Buffalo News reports “The judge directed Roswell Park Comprehensive Care to negotiate over her retroactive pay and benefits,” although the employer is appealing. If a mRNA mandate is irrational in a healthcare setting, it’s clearly irrational in a school.

6. The studies I submitted to the Council are:

• Fraiman, Erviti, et al, “Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults” Vaccine, September 2022

“Combined, the mRNA vaccines were associated with an excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest of 12.5 per 10,000 vaccinated. The Pfizer trial exhibited a 36 % higher risk of serious adverse events in the vaccine group; risk difference 18.0 per 10,000 vaccinated [greater than 1 in 1000 in both cases].”

• Seneff, Nigh, McCullough, et al, “Innate immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes, and MicroRNAs” Food and Chemical Toxicology, June 2022

  “The mRNA vaccines potentially cause increased risk to infectious diseases and cancer…We present evidence that vaccination induces a profound impairment in type I interferon signaling, which has adverse consequences to human health. Immune cells that have taken up the vaccine nanoparticles release into circulation large numbers of exosomes containing spike protein along with critical microRNAs that induce a signaling response in recipient cells at distant sites. We also identify potential profound disturbances in regulatory control of protein synthesis and cancer surveillance. These disturbances potentially have a causal link to neurodegenerative disease, myocarditis, immune thrombocytopenia, Bell's palsy, liver disease, impaired adaptive immunity, impaired DNA damage response and tumorigenesis.”

• Patone, Mei, et al “Risk of Myocarditis After Sequential Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Age and Sex” Circulation, Aug 2022

  “Associations were stronger in younger men <40 years for all vaccines and after a second dose of mRNA-1273 [Moderna] vaccine, where the risk of myocarditis was higher after vaccination than SARS-CoV-2 infection.”

• Uversky, Redwan, et al, “IgG4 Antibodies Induced by Repeated Vaccination May Generate Immune Tolerance to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein” Vaccines, May 2023

  “Emerging evidence suggests that the reported increase in IgG4 levels detected after repeated vaccination with the mRNA vaccines...could promote unopposed SARS-CoV2 infection and replication by suppressing natural antiviral responses. Increased IgG4 synthesis due to repeated mRNA vaccination with high antigen concentrations may also cause autoimmune diseases, and promote cancer growth and autoimmune myocarditis in susceptible individuals.”

• Graso, Aquino, et al “Blaming the Unvaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of political ideology and risk perceptions in the USA”

  Journal of Medical Ethics (British Medical Association), June 2023

  “Because people vastly overestimate C19 risks, we examined whether these negative judgements could be partially understood as a form of scapegoating …We observed that people hold the unvaccinated (vs vaccinated) more responsible for negative pandemic outcomes and that political ideology moderated these effects: liberals (vs conservatives) were more likely to scapegoat the unvaccinated (vs vaccinated), even when presented with information challenging the culpability of the unvaccinated known at the time of data collection (eg, natural immunity, availability of vaccines, time since last vaccination)…These findings support a scapegoating explanation for a specific group-based prejudice that emerged during the C19 pandemic. We encourage medical ethicists to examine the negative consequences of significant C19 risk overestimation among the public…”

• Park, Kim, et al, “Correlation between COVID-19 vaccination and inflammatory musculoskeletal disorders” Korea University Guro Hospital, November 2023.

  “This cohort study found that individuals who received any COVID-19 vaccine were more likely to be diagnosed with inflammatory musculoskeletal disorders than those who did not.”

• Krumholz, Wu, et al, “Post-Vaccination Syndrome: A Descriptive Analysis of Reported Symptoms and Patient Experiences After Covid-19 Immunization”

  Yale New Haven Hospital/ Yale School of Medicine, Nov 2023

  “This study is the largest to describe people who report a severe, debilitating chronic condition following Covid-19 vaccination. This chronic condition began soon after covid-19 vaccination and persisted in many people for a year or more. The symptoms reported are diverse and severe…these individuals do not have other diagnoses to explain their symptoms…In conclusion, people reporting PVS after covid-19 vaccination in this study are highly symptomatic, have poor health status, and have tried many treatment strategies without success.”

• Jennifer Block, “Is the US’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken?” British Medical Journal, November 2023

  “Not only have staffing levels failed to keep pace with the unprecedented number of reports since the rollout of Covid vaccines but there are signs that the system is overwhelmed, reports aren’t being followed up, and signals are being missed.”

• Schwab, Domke, et al, “Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination” Clinical Research in Cardiology , November 2022

• Nakahara ,Miyazawa, et al, “Assessment of Myocardial F-FDG Uptake at PET/CT in Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2–vaccinated and Nonvaccinated Patients” Radiology, Sept 2023

  “In a retrospective study of 700 patients vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 and 303 nonvaccinated patients who underwent PET/CT for indications other than myocarditis, patients who received their second vaccination 1–180 days before imaging showed higher myocardial fluorine 18 (¹⁸F) fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) than nonvaccinated patients…Myocardial ¹⁸F-FDG uptake was higher in vaccinated patients regardless of sex or patient age compared with corresponding nonvaccinated groups.”

• Girma, et al “The Covid Vaccine Mandate in English Care Homes Led to Fewer Staff —and May Not Have Reduced Resident Deaths” The Conversation / Management Science

  “We found that the mandate was successful in reducing the percentage of unvaccinated workers, but this came at the cost of a reduction in net staffing in the sector. We also didn’t find any evidence that the mandate reduced COVID deaths among residents.”

7. Dozens of public schoolteachers were fired in New York City for membership in the Communist Party during the 1940s and 50s under “the Feinberg Law.” When courts initially upheld this law they made a claim similar to what medical fascists say now: “one does not have the constitutional right to be a public employee except upon compliance with reasonable conditions.”

In 1967, the Supreme Court overturned the Feinberg Law as unconstitutional. In 1973, 33 of the schoolteachers were paid damages by the City of New York.