TEXT: In 2020, many medical freedom communities formed worldwide in response to increasingly nonsensical measures enforced in the name of "public health"
Shades of BEIGE
TEXT: I met Judea at a Bay Area community gathering. A mother, a chef, and a nutritionist, she is the first person I interviewed for this series.
Shades of BEIGE
TEXT: (At the time of publishing, this interview is over a year old. In my opinion, however, much of what is said not only still holds, but is also becoming more relevant by the day.)
Shades of BEIGE
0:26
JUDEA JOHNSON: My name is Judea Johnson. I've lived in the Bay Area for 14 years.
TEXT: What is your take on the pandemic?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I think the pandemic is kind of an orchestrated, exaggerated flu. I think there is an illness out there. It looks very much now with a year and a half's worth of data that it's on par with a flu, maybe a bad seasonal clue. Seems to really be devastating for the elderly or people with many pre-existing conditions, seems to really spare kids and young people, so I think that the response especially is overblown and an excuse to kind of come in with a lot of authoritarian and tyrannical orders.
TEXT: Who, in your opinion, is orchestrating it?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I think it's, you know, kind of a globalist agenda, the elites which I don't even like to call them that but, you know, a lot of very wealthy, powerful people. It seems like they're looking to reinvent capitalism and, and swoop in with kind of this next stage of capitalism because a lot of the resources they've gotten rich on are running out. And looks like, like we the humans are the next target, we're the next capital.
TEXT: How were you affected by the events of 2020?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I was affected by the events of 2020 in numerous ways. I think most profoundly my daughter who was 14 I guess at the very beginning and quickly turned 15, she was finishing her freshman year of high school, she's just had a really devastating year. The closure of schools has impacted not only her grades and her kind of future prospects, but her mental health in a big way. She's never had any of these kind of issues with depression and, you know, just deep kind of apathy that we've seen come out in her. She really thrives on her peers and structure in a school setting and that was ripped away from her, in addition to any extracurricular activities, hanging out, wow, what have you.
She got straight A's her first semester in high school and proceeded to, you know, just do pretty, you know, average or subpar for what she's capable of this year, so I think that's a real big indication that, of how hard this has been on her.
And then just kind of a little on a lighter level, I am a big traveler, I love to travel, I love to experience other cultures in the world, and that all came to a screeching halt last summer 2020. I was supposed to go to Portugal and Morocco, couldn't do that, and haven't left the country since all of this went down.
TEXT: Did you change your behaviour and lifestyle during this time?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I haven't changed much in terms of my behavior or lifestyle because of the pandemic. I've never been afraid of getting sick. I trust that I'm strong with a strong immune system, and the same for my husband and kids. We focus a lot on really good nutrition, nutrient dense food, good supplements, so no, in terms of changing behavior to try to avoid a virus, no, I have not worn a mask when not necessary, I've continued to gather with and hug friends and even meet lots of great new people over the last year. So no major behavioral or lifestyle changes, although, like I said, much less travel.
TEXT: Did you notice anything weird about people's behavior?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Yeah, I thought a lot was weird. I thought, I thought the way everything kind of just came to a sudden screeching halt was bizarre, and how everyone just kind of accepted it without much evidence and proof. I'm a big why person so I, I always want to know, I want to see, okay, we're doing this, why? What's the reason?
I thought that the mask stuff that was instituted here in the Bay Area really early on was insane. And again, no data to back this up, and the only studies that were done prior to 2020 showed that masks are ineffective and can even increase respiratory viral infection and transmission. So the mask thing certainly, super weird. Super, yeah.
TEXT: Did you ever wear a mask?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I've worn a mask. I don't think anyone here in the Bay Area has been able to get through you know 15, 16 months without wearing a mask occasionally. All of the grocery stores around me required a mask and early on, throughout the summer, I really tried to push back and, you know, get in without one and claim exemptions, and they didn't care. They didn't care if you have a medical exemption, they didn't care if you had a valid excuse. At a certain point they just would not let you in for food. So yeah I had to put a muzzle on to go get my groceries occasionally. And I have wanted to fly a handful of times over the last year and a half, that was a trade-off I was willing to take. I got the most breathable mask I could, but I figured the, the boost to my sanity and being able to get out of California a few times was was worth the, the mask.
TEXT: Did you get the Covid-19 Vaccine?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I have not gotten the covid-19 vaccine and I never will get the covid 19 vaccine.
TEXT: Why won't you ever get the Covid-19 Vaccine?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Well, first and foremost it's rushed and experimental. The trials are ongoing and aren't set to finish until 2022 or 23, depending on the manufacturer. And I also believe that the risk of this virus is fairly low, or quite low, in someone my age and with my health status and I don't think the risk benefit analysis makes any sense.
TEXT: Will your children ever get the Covid-19 Vaccine?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Same for them. One is 18 now and so he's gonna start to have to make these decisions for himself, but I think we've laid a good foundation and we constantly talk about the risk versus the benefits, so hopefully he'll choose wisely.
TEXT: Before 2020, did you vaccinate your children?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Before 2020 my children and, still to this day, have never received any vaccinations. It's because we believe in our body's ability to fight infection if it's healthy and give them the raw materials it needs to stay healthy and maintain a strong immune system.
Also, you know, I did research. I didn't just come to this willy-nilly. There's a lot of data that shows that most of the childhood infections that we vaccinate for started to disappear in society before the introduction of mass vaccination, and that was mostly due to good sanitation, proper sewage, refrigeration, and nutrition improved, so those things really sent those childhood infections like measles and mumps, rubella, polio is a kind of a longer story.
TEXT: Would you call yourself an anti-vaxxer?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: So I wouldn't call myself an anti-vaxxer, but I don't really mind the term. But I think I have a different feeling than a lot of people who have stopped vaccinating who have vaccine injured children. A lot of friends who have vaccinated and, and then harm came to their children, don't like that term I think, number one because they did vaccinate, they're not anti-vaxxers, they vaccinated and it caused harm to someone they love. I think it's used as a derogatory kind of insult to lump anyone who questions vaccines into kind of a quack, clueless, uneducated thoughts.
TEXT: Do you identify with any political party?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I do not. I'm more left-leaning for sure, but the two main political parties in the United States do not represent me, do not speak for me, do not help me in any way so, no.
TEXT: What are your thoughts on Black Lives Matter?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I think the concept of Black Lives Matter is wonderful, and I support it, and I've been to Black Lives Matter protests and rallies. I think that systemic and institutional racism is real and still affecting black folks hundreds of years later. There's an enormous wealth gap, mass incarceration levels are much higher for black folks, so in concept it's great. I think the organization Black Lives Matter has some issues, and I question its intent now, I question its um support and financial donations.
TEXT: What do you think of the labels given to people who think similarly to you?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Well, I am someone who questions lockdowns, but I'm not a Q Anon, right-wing conspiracy theorist whatever label they try to throw at us. I would respond by saying, you know, look at me and look at my, my past and my life. I, I'm more of a left-leaning politically person. I'm certainly not white, and I don't think I'm a conspiracy theorist, either. I think I do a ton of research and my views are are based on that.
TEXT: Were you vocal on social media with your views?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I was vocal about the pandemic immediately on FaceBook. In fact, you know, a few months ago I started getting those memories from a year ago and I was like, wow, yeah, I really started speaking out about this kind of from the beginning.
TEXT: What was the response like to such posts?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: There were a couple of times someone who was a nurse or a teacher might have chimed in and, you know, during the first few months I think there was a lot of unknowns so some of the people just questioned from that viewpoint. But generally, I know a lot of people tell me privately that they appreciate my posts and they feel they themselves can't speak as candidly, whether for professional reasons or they say their family will just jump on them. I've had pretty good reception and, you know, just try to get the information out that I can.
TEXT: Have you noticed a rift in your community?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Yeah. I've noticed a rift in my community. I'm kind of more of a quality over
quantity person, so I don't have a huge circle of friends that, you know, like, I've lost over this but certainly a couple of friends see this very differently than I do. I think we've still been able to maintain a friendship, mainly because it stays respectful, you know, they're not shouting at me to wear a mask or calling me a conspiracy theorist, at least to my face. And then family, you know, you just have to accept to a certain degree if you want them in your life.
But I'm really lucky that I mentioned I was fighting this vaccine bill here in California in 2019 just before the pandemic hit and I have a lot of great friends I met kind of standing in solidarity with that fight that led me into this year with a great base of really awake people. And we've been so grateful for each other, we've gotten each other through a lot of craziness this last year.
TEXT: Tell me about the Superhero protest you participated in...
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Sure. I attended a demonstration on June 4th down in Disneyland in Anaheim, California for the opening day of the Avengers campus at Disneyland. And the organization V is for Vaccine organized this demonstration and we had about, I don't know, 25 to 30 of us dressed up as various Marvel comic book characters and we held signs educating the public about the covid-19 vaccines. Some of the signs said covid-19 vaccine manufacturers are exempt from liability. My, one, one side of my sign said, vaccine passports lead to modern day segregation.
[screenshots]
So we're just out there trying to educate people who might not not normally see this stuff about the dangers of the vaccine specifically and of the vaccine passports and certification programs they're trying to usher in. And, and the, the demonstrations, this is, there's been several other before, at
Disney or Comic-Con, they're a great way to take activism off of social media and online, and get actually in person and in people's faces, so they can't ignore you.
TEXT: Recently you decided to leave California... why?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I've decided to leave California at least temporarily because my daughter, who's 16 and going into her junior year of high school, will be kicked out, is not allowed into any school in California, public, private, or parochial because she has a medical exemption for vaccines and it has been revoked.
TEXT: Do you have concerns for the future?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Yeah I have many concerns about the future. I, I mean, I'm, I'm concerned about just the next handful of years, I don't, I don't know that any of us know where this is going and what it will look like. And certainly as a mother with kids just sort of entering adulthood I have a lot of concerns. I wonder about their prospects for just being able to kind of live on their own, and be financially secure. I wonder about even just them deciding to have kids if they remain in California how restrictive that is. It's quite hostile to, well to a lot of people who question this stuff but especially to people who question vaccines for their, their kids. You basically can't get your child in education in California without submitting them to the full CDC childhood schedule of vaccines, which by the time they're 18 is 72, maybe more at this point, doses.
TEXT: What could be a solution to the problems we discussed today?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I don't know that I have the solution to these problems. I think a lot of it stems from the corporate influence in everything. I think government is so usurped and captured by corporations. I saw that firsthand, I mean, there's a lot of examples of it, but I saw it firsthand in the fight against SB276 here in California,[1] where, you know, constituents, mothers and fathers, tried to get in and speak to our representatives in Sacramento and had, many of us had a really hard time getting any face time with them. Yet, they see, you know, tens of lobbies a day for these corporations, many of them pharmaceutical.
So I think, you know, the corporate influence on politics and our daily lives is a big way to start to move in the right direction, by removing that. Yeah, a lot of issues around poverty and wealth inequity. I'm, I'm a nutritionist and chef and so I see a lot of issues with our food system. I think that we could talk all day about that, but farm subsidies and that, but again it all comes back down to the corporate influence in every aspect of our lives.
TEXT: Video series produced by
Shades of BEIGE
TEXT: SINGLE BEIGE FEMALE
TEXT: Feel free to think outside the box
Shades of BEIGE
TEXT: SANE Francisco
16:40
[Music]
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Micropixie (Neshma Friend) is a multimedia artist best known for her videos and music albums. Her Substack is Sane Francisco. https://sanefrancisco.substack.com. See also her speech for a freedom rally in San Francisco in 2021:
My Speech at the Health & Freedom Rally, August 2021
(Filmed August 27th 2021 at City Hall, San Francisco, California)
[1] On September 9, 2019 California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 276 into law. It severely restricts and makes the process cumbersome for medical exemptions from vaccination requirements.
I looked and looked but could not find a website for V is for Vaccine, the organization that did the mandates protest in Anaheim CA. If you know of one I'll be very glad to add it to the notes.
Hi T-B, thanks so much for transcribing; you always do such an excellent job!
You got me worried there about not being able to find V is for Vaccine... I wondered if the site had been taken down. But phew... fortunately it is still there: https://www.visforvaccine.com/
Thank you so much! Oh that's funny, the website is so obvious! The thing is, I went for the search engines, which blasted down "v is for vaccine" to who-knows-where (nothing came up that I could find), and then I did try visforvaccine, but with dot org. Oops. I was so close!
I'll give the transcript a spotlight on the Substack just as soon as I get get it into the lineup. I know they must be very time-consuming to do, but I so hope you will do more of these. I really appreciated getting a chance to see and hear what one of the brave people who stood up for freedom and sanity back n 2021 had to say about it.
It's funny you left me these messages today because I was thinking I might highlight this video. I do want to make more of these and I have footage that I need to edit, and yes they are time-consuming. This one took me ages because it was the first so at least I have the template set to go...
Great interview! Thanks ❤️
<3
Terrific interview! With my profound thanks to both of you, here is a transcript:
Beige Against The Machine:
Shades of Beige: Judea Johnson
Micropixie aka MPX, Sane Francisco
posted September 27, 2022 [filmed in 2021]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6V95H676X4
TRANSCRIPT
0:05
[Music by Micropixie]
TEXT ON SCREEN [in an art collage by Micropixie]:
BEIGE
AGAINST
THE
MACHINE
TEXT: Judea Johnson
Shades of BEIGE
TEXT: In 2020, many medical freedom communities formed worldwide in response to increasingly nonsensical measures enforced in the name of "public health"
Shades of BEIGE
TEXT: I met Judea at a Bay Area community gathering. A mother, a chef, and a nutritionist, she is the first person I interviewed for this series.
Shades of BEIGE
TEXT: (At the time of publishing, this interview is over a year old. In my opinion, however, much of what is said not only still holds, but is also becoming more relevant by the day.)
Shades of BEIGE
0:26
JUDEA JOHNSON: My name is Judea Johnson. I've lived in the Bay Area for 14 years.
TEXT: What is your take on the pandemic?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I think the pandemic is kind of an orchestrated, exaggerated flu. I think there is an illness out there. It looks very much now with a year and a half's worth of data that it's on par with a flu, maybe a bad seasonal clue. Seems to really be devastating for the elderly or people with many pre-existing conditions, seems to really spare kids and young people, so I think that the response especially is overblown and an excuse to kind of come in with a lot of authoritarian and tyrannical orders.
TEXT: Who, in your opinion, is orchestrating it?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I think it's, you know, kind of a globalist agenda, the elites which I don't even like to call them that but, you know, a lot of very wealthy, powerful people. It seems like they're looking to reinvent capitalism and, and swoop in with kind of this next stage of capitalism because a lot of the resources they've gotten rich on are running out. And looks like, like we the humans are the next target, we're the next capital.
TEXT: How were you affected by the events of 2020?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I was affected by the events of 2020 in numerous ways. I think most profoundly my daughter who was 14 I guess at the very beginning and quickly turned 15, she was finishing her freshman year of high school, she's just had a really devastating year. The closure of schools has impacted not only her grades and her kind of future prospects, but her mental health in a big way. She's never had any of these kind of issues with depression and, you know, just deep kind of apathy that we've seen come out in her. She really thrives on her peers and structure in a school setting and that was ripped away from her, in addition to any extracurricular activities, hanging out, wow, what have you.
She got straight A's her first semester in high school and proceeded to, you know, just do pretty, you know, average or subpar for what she's capable of this year, so I think that's a real big indication that, of how hard this has been on her.
And then just kind of a little on a lighter level, I am a big traveler, I love to travel, I love to experience other cultures in the world, and that all came to a screeching halt last summer 2020. I was supposed to go to Portugal and Morocco, couldn't do that, and haven't left the country since all of this went down.
TEXT: Did you change your behaviour and lifestyle during this time?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I haven't changed much in terms of my behavior or lifestyle because of the pandemic. I've never been afraid of getting sick. I trust that I'm strong with a strong immune system, and the same for my husband and kids. We focus a lot on really good nutrition, nutrient dense food, good supplements, so no, in terms of changing behavior to try to avoid a virus, no, I have not worn a mask when not necessary, I've continued to gather with and hug friends and even meet lots of great new people over the last year. So no major behavioral or lifestyle changes, although, like I said, much less travel.
TEXT: Did you notice anything weird about people's behavior?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Yeah, I thought a lot was weird. I thought, I thought the way everything kind of just came to a sudden screeching halt was bizarre, and how everyone just kind of accepted it without much evidence and proof. I'm a big why person so I, I always want to know, I want to see, okay, we're doing this, why? What's the reason?
I thought that the mask stuff that was instituted here in the Bay Area really early on was insane. And again, no data to back this up, and the only studies that were done prior to 2020 showed that masks are ineffective and can even increase respiratory viral infection and transmission. So the mask thing certainly, super weird. Super, yeah.
TEXT: Did you ever wear a mask?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I've worn a mask. I don't think anyone here in the Bay Area has been able to get through you know 15, 16 months without wearing a mask occasionally. All of the grocery stores around me required a mask and early on, throughout the summer, I really tried to push back and, you know, get in without one and claim exemptions, and they didn't care. They didn't care if you have a medical exemption, they didn't care if you had a valid excuse. At a certain point they just would not let you in for food. So yeah I had to put a muzzle on to go get my groceries occasionally. And I have wanted to fly a handful of times over the last year and a half, that was a trade-off I was willing to take. I got the most breathable mask I could, but I figured the, the boost to my sanity and being able to get out of California a few times was was worth the, the mask.
TEXT: Did you get the Covid-19 Vaccine?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I have not gotten the covid-19 vaccine and I never will get the covid 19 vaccine.
TEXT: Why won't you ever get the Covid-19 Vaccine?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Well, first and foremost it's rushed and experimental. The trials are ongoing and aren't set to finish until 2022 or 23, depending on the manufacturer. And I also believe that the risk of this virus is fairly low, or quite low, in someone my age and with my health status and I don't think the risk benefit analysis makes any sense.
TEXT: Will your children ever get the Covid-19 Vaccine?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Same for them. One is 18 now and so he's gonna start to have to make these decisions for himself, but I think we've laid a good foundation and we constantly talk about the risk versus the benefits, so hopefully he'll choose wisely.
TEXT: Before 2020, did you vaccinate your children?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Before 2020 my children and, still to this day, have never received any vaccinations. It's because we believe in our body's ability to fight infection if it's healthy and give them the raw materials it needs to stay healthy and maintain a strong immune system.
Also, you know, I did research. I didn't just come to this willy-nilly. There's a lot of data that shows that most of the childhood infections that we vaccinate for started to disappear in society before the introduction of mass vaccination, and that was mostly due to good sanitation, proper sewage, refrigeration, and nutrition improved, so those things really sent those childhood infections like measles and mumps, rubella, polio is a kind of a longer story.
TEXT: Would you call yourself an anti-vaxxer?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: So I wouldn't call myself an anti-vaxxer, but I don't really mind the term. But I think I have a different feeling than a lot of people who have stopped vaccinating who have vaccine injured children. A lot of friends who have vaccinated and, and then harm came to their children, don't like that term I think, number one because they did vaccinate, they're not anti-vaxxers, they vaccinated and it caused harm to someone they love. I think it's used as a derogatory kind of insult to lump anyone who questions vaccines into kind of a quack, clueless, uneducated thoughts.
TEXT: Do you identify with any political party?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I do not. I'm more left-leaning for sure, but the two main political parties in the United States do not represent me, do not speak for me, do not help me in any way so, no.
TEXT: What are your thoughts on Black Lives Matter?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I think the concept of Black Lives Matter is wonderful, and I support it, and I've been to Black Lives Matter protests and rallies. I think that systemic and institutional racism is real and still affecting black folks hundreds of years later. There's an enormous wealth gap, mass incarceration levels are much higher for black folks, so in concept it's great. I think the organization Black Lives Matter has some issues, and I question its intent now, I question its um support and financial donations.
TEXT: What do you think of the labels given to people who think similarly to you?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Well, I am someone who questions lockdowns, but I'm not a Q Anon, right-wing conspiracy theorist whatever label they try to throw at us. I would respond by saying, you know, look at me and look at my, my past and my life. I, I'm more of a left-leaning politically person. I'm certainly not white, and I don't think I'm a conspiracy theorist, either. I think I do a ton of research and my views are are based on that.
...continued...
...continued...
TEXT: Were you vocal on social media with your views?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I was vocal about the pandemic immediately on FaceBook. In fact, you know, a few months ago I started getting those memories from a year ago and I was like, wow, yeah, I really started speaking out about this kind of from the beginning.
TEXT: What was the response like to such posts?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: There were a couple of times someone who was a nurse or a teacher might have chimed in and, you know, during the first few months I think there was a lot of unknowns so some of the people just questioned from that viewpoint. But generally, I know a lot of people tell me privately that they appreciate my posts and they feel they themselves can't speak as candidly, whether for professional reasons or they say their family will just jump on them. I've had pretty good reception and, you know, just try to get the information out that I can.
TEXT: Have you noticed a rift in your community?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Yeah. I've noticed a rift in my community. I'm kind of more of a quality over
quantity person, so I don't have a huge circle of friends that, you know, like, I've lost over this but certainly a couple of friends see this very differently than I do. I think we've still been able to maintain a friendship, mainly because it stays respectful, you know, they're not shouting at me to wear a mask or calling me a conspiracy theorist, at least to my face. And then family, you know, you just have to accept to a certain degree if you want them in your life.
But I'm really lucky that I mentioned I was fighting this vaccine bill here in California in 2019 just before the pandemic hit and I have a lot of great friends I met kind of standing in solidarity with that fight that led me into this year with a great base of really awake people. And we've been so grateful for each other, we've gotten each other through a lot of craziness this last year.
TEXT: Tell me about the Superhero protest you participated in...
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Sure. I attended a demonstration on June 4th down in Disneyland in Anaheim, California for the opening day of the Avengers campus at Disneyland. And the organization V is for Vaccine organized this demonstration and we had about, I don't know, 25 to 30 of us dressed up as various Marvel comic book characters and we held signs educating the public about the covid-19 vaccines. Some of the signs said covid-19 vaccine manufacturers are exempt from liability. My, one, one side of my sign said, vaccine passports lead to modern day segregation.
[screenshots]
So we're just out there trying to educate people who might not not normally see this stuff about the dangers of the vaccine specifically and of the vaccine passports and certification programs they're trying to usher in. And, and the, the demonstrations, this is, there's been several other before, at
Disney or Comic-Con, they're a great way to take activism off of social media and online, and get actually in person and in people's faces, so they can't ignore you.
TEXT: Recently you decided to leave California... why?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I've decided to leave California at least temporarily because my daughter, who's 16 and going into her junior year of high school, will be kicked out, is not allowed into any school in California, public, private, or parochial because she has a medical exemption for vaccines and it has been revoked.
TEXT: Do you have concerns for the future?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: Yeah I have many concerns about the future. I, I mean, I'm, I'm concerned about just the next handful of years, I don't, I don't know that any of us know where this is going and what it will look like. And certainly as a mother with kids just sort of entering adulthood I have a lot of concerns. I wonder about their prospects for just being able to kind of live on their own, and be financially secure. I wonder about even just them deciding to have kids if they remain in California how restrictive that is. It's quite hostile to, well to a lot of people who question this stuff but especially to people who question vaccines for their, their kids. You basically can't get your child in education in California without submitting them to the full CDC childhood schedule of vaccines, which by the time they're 18 is 72, maybe more at this point, doses.
TEXT: What could be a solution to the problems we discussed today?
Shades of BEIGE
JUDEA JOHNSON: I don't know that I have the solution to these problems. I think a lot of it stems from the corporate influence in everything. I think government is so usurped and captured by corporations. I saw that firsthand, I mean, there's a lot of examples of it, but I saw it firsthand in the fight against SB276 here in California,[1] where, you know, constituents, mothers and fathers, tried to get in and speak to our representatives in Sacramento and had, many of us had a really hard time getting any face time with them. Yet, they see, you know, tens of lobbies a day for these corporations, many of them pharmaceutical.
So I think, you know, the corporate influence on politics and our daily lives is a big way to start to move in the right direction, by removing that. Yeah, a lot of issues around poverty and wealth inequity. I'm, I'm a nutritionist and chef and so I see a lot of issues with our food system. I think that we could talk all day about that, but farm subsidies and that, but again it all comes back down to the corporate influence in every aspect of our lives.
TEXT: Video series produced by
Shades of BEIGE
TEXT: SINGLE BEIGE FEMALE
TEXT: Feel free to think outside the box
Shades of BEIGE
TEXT: SANE Francisco
16:40
[Music]
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Micropixie (Neshma Friend) is a multimedia artist best known for her videos and music albums. Her Substack is Sane Francisco. https://sanefrancisco.substack.com. See also her speech for a freedom rally in San Francisco in 2021:
My Speech at the Health & Freedom Rally, August 2021
(Filmed August 27th 2021 at City Hall, San Francisco, California)
https://sanefrancisco.substack.com/p/my-speech-at-the-health-and-freedom
Sane Francisco, Posted August 31, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShjwZmp2jbk
Transcript: https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/104843.html
Judea Johnson www.twitter.com/judeajohnson
[1] On September 9, 2019 California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 276 into law. It severely restricts and makes the process cumbersome for medical exemptions from vaccination requirements.
See: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB276
I looked and looked but could not find a website for V is for Vaccine, the organization that did the mandates protest in Anaheim CA. If you know of one I'll be very glad to add it to the notes.
Hi T-B, thanks so much for transcribing; you always do such an excellent job!
You got me worried there about not being able to find V is for Vaccine... I wondered if the site had been taken down. But phew... fortunately it is still there: https://www.visforvaccine.com/
Thank you so much! Oh that's funny, the website is so obvious! The thing is, I went for the search engines, which blasted down "v is for vaccine" to who-knows-where (nothing came up that I could find), and then I did try visforvaccine, but with dot org. Oops. I was so close!
I'll give the transcript a spotlight on the Substack just as soon as I get get it into the lineup. I know they must be very time-consuming to do, but I so hope you will do more of these. I really appreciated getting a chance to see and hear what one of the brave people who stood up for freedom and sanity back n 2021 had to say about it.
I tried dot org first too and then dot com! :)
It's funny you left me these messages today because I was thinking I might highlight this video. I do want to make more of these and I have footage that I need to edit, and yes they are time-consuming. This one took me ages because it was the first so at least I have the template set to go...
I gave it the spotlight today in the Transcriber B substack
https://transcriberb.substack.com/p/who-was-speaking-out-in-22-judea
Cheers, and my warmest thanks to both of you for standing up for freedom!