New York Teacher Forced To Have Psychological Examination For Refusing Mask & Jab Mandates
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We're nearing the end of the humanitarian pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas.
The ceasefire's been broken a bunch of times already, because, you know, just want to kill stuff.
But in terms of the official paperwork, the pause is still in place for now.
Anyone that isn't a complete psychopath and or on the Warhawk's payroll has been calling for a permanent ceasefire in the Middle East for weeks.
Over 15,000 dead Palestinians feels like enough.
Think it feels like enough?
It feels like enough, it does.
There's another group of psychopath and or payroll receivers that don't want to call for a permanent ceasefire because, well, they'll miss their funding and they'll miss their all expenses paid trips to the Holy Land, but they have to at least pretend to care because a large swathe of their voter base care.
So these lowlifes called for a humanitarian pause.
Yes, I'm looking at you, the UK Labour Party.
A nothing burger of an organisation with about as much charisma as it has loyalty.
A party whose sole selling point is, we're not the Tories.
Yeah, but you are though, mate.
You just stuck a pride flag on the bumper.
Apart from that, you're literally the Tories.
I digress.
Humanitarian pause.
What a wonderful use of Orwellian newspeak, because it sounds nice.
It's got the word humanitarian in it for a start, but all it means is it's going to take a short intermission from blowing the living hell out of you all, so you can grab some refreshments.
Welcome to the Superbomb 2023.
We're going to take a short intermission now while we clear the bodies from the arena of death, and then we'll be right back with the halftime show.
Ooh, I wonder who it is.
I hope it's Beyonce.
This is how far we've come as a species with all the centuries past, the wars, the genocides, the never-agains.
We've reached a point where we now take a breather during a massacre.
Get some food down your neck, son, because as soon as that bell goes off, I'm dropping bombs.
It's lunacy.
Aliens watching this will be shaking their big, fat, green heads.
Are they still killing each other, Simpkins?
I don't know why it's called Simpkins.
Are they still killing each other, Simpkins?
Yeah, they are, boss, but now there's someone selling ice creams.
It's madness.
If you can go four days without blowing up an apartment block, why not try for five?
Push it to six and in no time you've managed a week.
These patches must be working.
Because I've not had a craving to pull the trigger or anything.
You're doing great.
I'm proud of you.
And that's the answer to this.
The people stop fighting.
I've been stood here for what?
How long?
Two minutes?
I've not killed anyone.
It's a miracle, isn't it?
In fact, I'm 42 next month.
I know I don't look it.
And in that 42 years, I've not killed anyone.
So it is doable.
We can just say no.
Now if Benjamin Netanyahu wants to fly out to Doha and have a tear-up with the leaders of Hamas, let him.
Off you go, son.
Put on a vest and a little pair of trunks and go and knock ten barrels of crap out of each other.
Fill your boots, mate.
Let the grown-ups in the room deal with the situation.
A one state solution.
Different faiths living side by side, all treated exactly the same under the law, with no man, woman or child more privileged or more oppressed than another.
Human beings being seen as human beings rather than superior and inferior, dependent on what genes they happen to be born with, or what God their ancestors believed in.
Just like they did before 1948, when Jews, Christians, Muslims lived side by side, peacefully.
Some are old enough to remember those days, and they speak of them fondly, and I know some of these people.
So how is it that hard to understand?
Some may say, well, why would Israelis accept having Palestinians alongside them as their equal?
Well, do you want peace or not?
Because these people aren't going away.
No matter how many times you mow the lawn, they'll still keep coming back stronger and more resilient than before.
The Palestinian people are indomitable, and if you haven't worked that out after 75 years, you kind of need to catch up.
I'll level with you outright.
I live more than a two-day drive away from all of this, and even I'm bored of hearing the excuses.
It will never happen.
There can never be peace.
Well, of course there can, if you want it badly enough.
If you stop following the fraudulent and psychopathic leaders on both sides, If Palestinians want to be free, and Israelis want to be free, and they want to be free from running to bomb shelters every few days, then Palestinians and Israelis need to build that bridge themselves.
Because their leaders feed off their fear and suffering.
So they ain't going to build anything other than hate.
And missiles?
Come together in spite of those lunatics in suits.
Because it doesn't matter who you are, they don't care about you.
The Hamas leadership chose the pennies over the people a long, long time ago.
And no matter what the Israeli politicians tell you from the podium, no matter what protection they offer you for your vote, they would sell you out in a heartbeat.
Just like they sold you out to Albert Baller.
Our final guest this evening joins us from New York City.
Noelle Florio is a veteran teacher of 20 years' experience who voiced concerns about vaccine mandates when they were introduced in the city's schools.
In her mind, they were a gross overreach and a huge slap in the face for individual freedom and bodily autonomy, which is an understandable view and one I share wholeheartedly, but it didn't end there.
As a result of expressing these completely justified views, Noelle was forced to undergo a psychiatric exam and accused of being psychotic.
Wow, Land of the Free, remember?
Noelle, welcome to the show.
This blows my mind to the point where I feel like maybe I need a psychiatric exam after reading about it.
Tell us where all this started.
It's a span.
It's over since 2021.
It's hard to encapsulate all of the pivotal moments, Gareth, but basically what happened was after I had refused compliance on masking.
Now keep in mind, I'm actually from a district on Long Island, which is on the outside of the city.
So we weren't mandated to vaccinate.
We were only mandated to mask Or test in lieu of vaccination.
So my psychosis stems from refusal of the masking and testing and basically at least alleged anyway.
And what had happened was when I had expressed this to my employer and submitted medical medical exemptions and a religious exemption.
They said that I needed to my return to work was conditioned upon a psychiatric sample.
It's called the 913 exam.
It's under New York state law and it's to determine the mental and or physical fitness of an educator to be around children.
It was conditioned upon my return.
So and it was strictly out of my expression of the opposition of to the mandates.
I was not clear to return in January.
So this so I was mandated to undergo the exam in December of 2021.
Was not medically cleared and only went back.
I was out the entire year because I refused to comply with the mandate and then tried to attempt to go back at August 23rd of 2022 to which I underwent their examination.
It was over three and a half hours long.
Um, the physician, uh, who is actually hired by over 50 school districts on the island and solely by the districts.
He's the hired hand.
He doesn't represent any of the teachers in any matter.
Um, he determined that I was mentally incompetent.
Uh, they charged me with insubordination, um, because I refused a urine test and I refused an indiscriminate probe into my My prescription background, because there's a whole background story, but another physician had been strong-armed by the district and changed his exemption for me.
So there's so many things that are attached to this diagnosis of psychosis, but ultimately, I was terminated this past July.
I had to go through rigorous hearings to determine that I was unfit to be around children.
That's extraordinary.
Is this something that's happened to other people as well?
Because to me, the fact that you can jump from you're asking some difficult questions or you're refusing the mandate to then you're psychotic.
I mean, that's a hell of a leap.
Is that something that you've heard other people have gone through as well?
No, actually.
In fact, I mean, I understand that there were several movements in opposition to the masking.
However, to my knowledge, I believe I'm the only teacher in New York State that was terminated in my opposition to masking.
I work with over... and having to undergo an exam for it.
I work with over 700 teachers in my school district.
It's a very large district.
And I was the only person terminated.
Based on this, that physician determined, or that psychiatrist determined that due to my rigid and fixed beliefs, these are quotes from his report, my rigid and fixed beliefs, because I had said that there were evil forces at play in the background of this, and that was, you know, perceived that I was some kind of religious zealot, and determined this.
I was fortunate to have Did any of your colleagues speak out on your behalf and say, you know, what is going on?
but this, but the arbitrator who was in my hearing completely dismissed anything.
And I don't know if you're aware of Dr. Brigham, but he's a very experienced psychiatrist.
Did any of your colleagues speak out on your behalf and say, you know, what is going on?
No one.
No one.
The district I work for is kind of a microcosm of what's going on in the world.
They're scary.
They're big.
They actually, in secret, the union presidents called me and said, Noelle, you got to toe the line here.
Secretly, the administration wants to high-five you and take you to lunch, but don't make them look bad.
And so, I was told off the record, basically, you need to go away.
And that's exactly what they did by the psychiatric exam.
Because, Gareth, you know many people, thousands, millions of people lost their jobs over mandates.
Yeah.
But I don't know many that were forced to undergo psychiatric exams.
It's the first I've heard, which is why I asked if you knew of any more, because I'd not heard that.
So what does that mean for you going forward?
Obviously you've lost your job within New York State, but is there something now that they've stuck on your record that says, you know, a failed psychological examination that's going to go against you getting work in the future?
Yes.
It's basically as if you were filling out an application to anywhere.
Have you ever been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor or anything like that?
My job working in the education realm, is finished, because if you have undergone what's this process, which is called a 30-20-A, they present it as due process that you have this fair hearing.
It's not fair by any means, but you're branded.
So I basically wear this scarlet letter and I can no longer work with any school district.
It's impossible to find work or to do anything in this field.
That's absolutely horrific.
Especially after, well it's horrific anyway, but after 20 years of working in that arena, that must just be absolutely... So what are you doing now, if you don't mind me asking?
Nothing.
I've tried to get...
Any kind of a tutoring position.
I've tried anything outside of my work, but you know, not having been employed for over two and a half years.
And by the way, I was not allowed to collect any unemployment or anything.
So I've, we're, we're financially we're decimated.
We've completely, my husband is also on disability because he has a severe back injury.
So we have four children.
Work living on Long Island is quite expensive.
Yeah.
So we've done, we have, I've tried.
You know, it's very challenging.
I've tried to do some writing, but, you know, it's just challenging to find work or to rebuild ourselves.
Of course.
Is there any kind of avenues do you think that you can maybe appeal it given the fact that the evidence about the masks and how they don't work in any way whatsoever and all the list of harms and stuff, I mean that's all come out now and it's kind of almost widely accepted so it feels like maybe the goalposts have moved somewhat from where they were a year and a half ago, two years ago.
So luckily, the arbitrator's decision is not the end-all be-all.
There's a 10-day statute where I'm allowed to appeal.
So initially, I had done this pro se because I couldn't afford an attorney.
However, there was a lovely woman who stepped in to help me at a reduced fee, and she basically said, and helped me in the appeal, and said, if my client is psychotic, then that means half the world's population is psychotic, because we all share this belief.
It's difficult to argue the medical part of it.
The judges don't want to hear that.
I think, believe it or not, the diagnosis of psychosis, I mean, you know, this, this is what they did to the, to the, in the Soviet Union, you know, with political dissidents.
And they, and Dr. Bregen had spoken about this, where they labeled them as, you know, insane and forced them to undergo horrific experiments.
And while that's not happening, I'm in this proverbial cage of, You know, unable to do anything and I feel like as though I'm an experiment and basically it's up to the judges to determine whether or not this is something that they want to set a precedent to.
So hopefully the goalposts will move and I'll be vindicated.
I hope so.
I sincerely hope so.
For me, I think anyone that looks at the last three years, and to be honest, looks at whatever's going on in different places all over the world now, and doesn't think that there's a dark force behind that.
That's psychotic for me to be in such a level of denial.
Just finally, I don't know if it's the same in the US, but here in the UK when they started bringing in mask mandates for kids and all these kind of things, homeschooling Absolutely exploded.
Lots of off-grid schools, farm schools, particularly around where we are in the middle of England, have started popping up.
Is that something that is maybe an option for yourself?
That actually, OK, within the state, no chance, but actually that there is an alternative education system growing?
Certainly.
And there is a silver lining to this because even being part of that system was not pleasant.
And I always kind of But the system closed my door and just was a teacher to those children in the way that I saw fit.
And so being out of that public system is wonderful.
And I do believe that the homeschooling environment is growing.
I've just, over here, it's, believe it or not, it's saturated.
And it's very close-knit.
They're reluctant to add anyone to it.
I have asked around.
It is something that I'm trying to pursue.
Again, this is all so new and it's just, you know, it's just something that I'm trying to get through.
Also having to write a lot of my own legal briefs and doing a lot of things.
I've had to man the fort here because I was not able to secure any kind of attorney to represent me.
So it's been, that's been very challenging.
That's been taking quite a bit of my time.
Plus a hell of a lot to process, I imagine.
Just on the daily, I imagine just kind of what on earth is going on.
It is extraordinary.
But hopefully, you know, your greatest gift has come dressed up as your worst nightmare.
And actually, as you say, at the end of this, you know, you look back and just go, oh, thank goodness, I'm out of that.
Fingers crossed.
But thank you so much for joining us.
And it's been lovely to talk to you.
And hopefully, I'll get to talk to you again further down the line when you're teaching away at a great school.