On Wednesday, Oct. 20, de Blasio announced that all city workers must receive at least one shot by Nov. 1 or go on unpaid leave until they complied. The only exception was granted to Corrections Officers, who have until Dec. 1 to get their first shot, due to staffing shortages and chronically poor working conditions.

The protestors carried handmade signs that read "We're Not Going to Take It," My Body, My Choice," and "We Tested Positive for Freedom." A large banner, adorned with the logos of nine city agencies, read, "Workers Are Essential. Mandates Are Not." American flags were in abundance.

Chants included "We Will Not Comply," "USA," "Let Us Work," "Freedom Over Fear," and, of course, the popular "Let's Go Brandon" refrain.

"Now, [after] working after countless of emergencies—Hurricane Sandy, the snowstorms—I am under threat. We are under threat of losing our livelihood for simply retaining the choice of protecting our bodies," said firefighter Sofia Medina.

Allies of the city employees also joined the protest. Daniel Atha lost his job as a conservation program manager at the New York Botanical Garden after 27 years, rather than being forced to get the jab. "I can't eat inside a restaurant. I can't go into a museum. I was fired from my job. That is persecution," he ranted. "They're taking away my human rights and treating me as a second class citizen, all based on my medical status. That is wrong, that is tyranny, and that's exactly how the Holocaust started," claimed Atha in an apparent reference to early Nazi persecution of Jewish German citizens... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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