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- Normally when I'm in search of an angry mob of people,
screaming anti-science, deep state,
vaccine microchip conspiracy jazz.
I head to the Heartland of America.
But it turns out I can find those very same people
right here in my own backyard, in New York city.
That's right, last week outside
of Mayor Bill de Blasio's home,
there was a group protesting his new mandate
that customers show proof of vaccination
in order to enter restaurants, gyms, and theaters.
It was a mix of hardcore anti-vaxxers,
people who are okay with vaccines, but hated the mandate.
And then of course, some people who put together
a joker costume once, loved the attention,
so now that's pretty much all they do.
- I'm the only one in my family
that hasn't gotten the vaccine.
It's not approved by FDA, I don't know what's in that.
Women are miscarrying.
People are having their DNA's wiped out.
- What? What do you mean?
Like completely wiped out?
- Yeah, they're telling women that it's okay
for you to get the vaccine.
- What does it mean their DNA is wiped out?
- Like, their immunity, their immunity is getting wiped out.
- Cause I was gonna say like COVID
wiped out 600,000 DNA's.
- Yes, of course, you know?
- Actually some people have died from the vaccine.
Don't believe me, go to the media, go to the Google.
- Some people have died from COVID.
- Yes.
- So many more than from the vaccine.
- One thing with me, I try not to argue facts.
- I don't believe that suggesting strongly
and coming out with mandates for a vaccine
is a way of medical intervention.
This is not what I believe in.
- That's a lot of quotes.
People from both sides of the issue
came from far and wide to express their hate
or love of vaccines.
- I think you're killing people.
- [Woman In Crowd] Go get your vaccine!
- [Woman] Come up here, let me cough on you.
- You're so full of shit.
You know Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz
have both been vaccinated, bullshit.
- This is why I love doing interviews in New York.
You're from Pennsylvania?
- Yes, because we know it's coming to Pennsylvania.
- How important is it like that?
To think ahead, to protect something
before it gets out of control.
- It's everything.
It's everything.
Because once it's gone out of control, you don't reel it in.
- Right? Like that's why it's important
for everybody to get a vaccine, squash it
before it gets out of control.
- That's why what?
- It's important that we take the vaccine, squash it.
- Oh my God, what side are you on?
Are you nuts?
- No, what were you talking about?
- I'm not talking to you.
- What were you talking about?
- I am not for the vaccine, are you out of your mind?
- Well you were just talking about getting ahead of it.
- Getting ahead of the mandate.
- The mandate is what's spreading?
- Yes, we don't want the mandate to come to to PA.
We don't want to take the vaccine.
- Oh. - Why should I?
- You see why I'm confused though?
Clearly putting potentially harmful toxins
into your body was something these anti-vax
mandate health nuts were very concerned about.
- My name is Allan Dela Cruz, I am running for city council.
- Running for New York office?
- As a Republican. - As a Republican.
- The science is still new,
we still have question marks, we rushed the science.
- We were moving at warp speed.
- Well, we moved the warp speed.
- So Donald Trump rushed it.
- Not correct.
- Who rushed it?
Uh, can I ask you, how about if we changed places?
And I started attacking you.
- You're the one who's running for public office.
The Republicans of New York were clearly
trying to move on from the past.
And in some cases forgetting it completely.
- My name is Vish Burra and I'm the Vice President
of the New York Young Republican Club.
This is a protest against the anti-freedom mandates
from a petty tyrant, like Bill de Blasio.
- Do you think this is something
that the founding fathers would support?
- The founding fathers would support vaccine mandates?
- Yeah. - No, I don't believe so.
- George Washington had a vaccine mandate.
- Well that's okay.
- Oh, well you said, oh, he's a lower founding father.
- I mean, I love the lore, but at the end of the day,
we are the ones who have to deal with
what is going on in American today.
- What are you gonna miss out on
that this mandate prevents you from doing?
- I just tried to get some, I love Thai food.
I just tried to get some Thai food around the corner,
they told me I couldn't sit down and eat.
- I can't go in a restaurant, I can't go to a music club.
- 50% more people will not going to go out to eat.
- How are they going to get food?
- Exactly, so maybe they'll go out of state
and come back, who knows?
- If only like the city had a seamless way
to get food to their door,
fresh, direct way to get there, you know.
- Maybe that's it.
- Their point is this mandate is a slippery slope
that only leads to hyperbole.
- So many don't get it.
It's 1937 and never again is now.
Do not comply to showing your papers.
This isn't Nazi Germany.
- Maybe you can help me out.
I I'm seeing signs that say vaccine mandates are fascism
and also signs that say vaccine mandates are communism.
Which one is it?
- It's both. - It's both?
Those are diametrically opposed ideologies.
- I don't think it's communism,
It's more like a dictatorship.
Like we're living in like a Nazi Germany.
The only thing that's missing is the camps and the gas.
- That's what's happening right now.
Because you can't go to a concert?
- I can't go to a concert, I can't go to a gym.
- Do you think that's what it was like in Nazi Germany,
people were bitching about not going to a gym?
- Mm-hmm.
- Regardless of our differences, this was still New York.
A melting pot crammed onto an island,
then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza.
You're not left or right.
You're a New (beep) Yorker and we're in this together.
- Well, I mean, I've heard the we live in a society line
a million times and we're over it.
The way that people think holds no sway for you.
- No, we, the people is
- Then who are the people of the we that people
that you are willing to support.
It's definitely not the illegal immigrants
that are bringing COVID over our border right now.
That's for sure.
I do not believe that vaccine mandates
are constitutionally supported.
- Which is a bummer because the Supreme Court
has upheld it many times.
- It's not my court.
- All right, well enjoy.
I hope you don't get sick.
Good luck to everyone out there.
And may you get the Pad See Ew our founding fathers
said you deserve to eat inside during a global pandemic.
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