Unvaccinated New Yorkers React to Mayor De Blasio’s Vaccine Passport Mandate

When Juan Guerreros heard about New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to implement a proof-of-vaccination policy for indoor dining, gyms, and entertainment venues, it made him think about relocating because he does not want to get vaccinated.

“My plan is to take out my kids and start finding freedom in Florida or Texas and if we don’t have it down there, I’ve already trained my kids and my wife that we’re going to have to die for this fight,” Guerreros told the Epoch Times.

Guerreros, who owns multiple businesses in Washington Heights, is among the 38.6 percent of New Yorkers who have not taken the COVID-19 vaccine. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, also known as the novel coronavirus, is the pathogen that causes COVID-19.

“They’re pushing everybody to do what the government wants to them do, and that is to get vaccinated,” Guerreros said in an interview near one of his storefronts in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. “I believe we are going to die from it. … This is the new world order. It’s everywhere, but for now [Gov. Ron] DeSantis in Florida is fighting it.”

Starting in September, under de Blasio’s “Key to NYC Pass” vaccination mandate, New Yorkers will be required to show proof of vaccination to dine at restaurants indoors, exercise inside a gym, or attend indoor performances.

“It makes me feel cast out,” said Ferness Johnson, who lives in West Harlem on 125th Street and Broadway. “There’s no other way to feel. It’s an unjust situation. It feels like we’re living under Martial Law.”

Like Johnson and Guerreros, George Macias plans to remain unvaccinated for as long as possible and foresees forced vaccinations in the near future.

“When the police come or whichever government agency is going to be in charge of forcing this, they should come with full body armor because I’m not gonna let them do something that I don’t want,” Macias, who lives in Washington Heights, told The Epoch Times. “I’m gonna stand my ground. Simple as that.”

Although Tonya Adamo works for the city of New York, she disagrees with Mayor de Blasio’s mandate.

“I really don’t wish to be vaccinated at this time,” Adamo told the Epoch Times while she was shopping with her boyfriend in Washington Heights. “It’s too soon and I feel like they really haven’t researched it. What’s the point of being vaccinated when they say people who have been vaccinated need booster shots because you could still get COVID-19? There are a lot of misconceptions and that’s why I’m waiting it out to see what happens.”

William Carrington, a construction worker who lives in Harlem, said de Blasio won’t win the battle because most people can survive without eating in restaurants and attending performances.

“I lift weights at home,” Carrington told The Epoch Times. “There’s too many options for you to try and stop somebody from doing something. I’m always going to eat. You know who it’s going to hurt? The restaurant and gym owners, because now people who refuse to get vaccinated aren’t spending their money on shows, gym memberships, or eating out. Besides, tickets to see a Broadway show cost $150. I can do without that.”

As a resident of senior citizen housing near West 125 Street in Harlem, Sammy Davis is surrounded by neighbors who have been vaccinated, but Davis is holding out. He calls the vaccine “medicine.”

“This medicine been out about for what, nine months? Something like that,” Davis Told the Epoch Times. “How can they make a powerful medicine that works in eight or nine months? God is my vaccine.”

“Kudos to him. I am taking a 20 percent pay cut and relocating as well. Not a nyer, but my company has a mandate.”

If your talking about moving to Florida, don’t be so hasty to take that 20% pay cut. Florida is EXPENSIVE to live in these days.

I own 10 acres in Florida and have been trying to build a house there for since 2018 and twice have had to give up that dream due to how expensive it is to build down there.

The current crash in house prices here in NH has just blown away my 3rd attempt to build down there (own my home outright in NH, but would have to take out a $150,000 mortgage to build a 2100 sq. ft. home down there AFTER putting my entire selling price into the new home).

Food down there is very expensive too, but you can grow your own year round unlike me in NH. We will have to delay for another 5 to 7 years and save like mad to be able to make another attempt to build again ... we just hope we can keep ahead of inflation in the next few years.

Actually NJ has the second or third highest per capita income and median income in the US (depends on the survey believe Virginia has the highest), higher than New York and also has a higher percentage of college graduates and advance degree holders than NY as well. And who has been driving NJ’s real estate into the stratosphere over the past year and a half? Good affluent liberals fleeing the city for Montclair, Maplewood, Summit, etc.

The idiotic stereotypes my fellow NYers (raised on Long Island and spent much of my adult years in the city) actually apply more to Staten Island or the south shore of Long Island rather than NJ. NJ is filled with progtards, Karens, illegals, and corrupt politicians but irony of ironies beats NY on many indices. The state of Bruce Springsteen died 40 years ago and was only a small part of my current state of residence.

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