San Diego County board meeting is hijacked by anti-vaxxers who accuse members of ‘crimes against humanity’ and being Nazis for debating mask and vaccine mandates
Groups of anti-vaxxers blasted the San Diego County Board of Supervisors at a meeting on Tuesday, branding them 'Nazis' for debating mask and vaccine mandates.
Several anti-vaccination groups attended the meeting, including ReOpen San Diego, Let Them Breathe, and San Diego Rise Up.
The angry demonstrators insisted that government mandates were 'psychological warfare', 'opening the pits of Hell', and violated 'international human rights law.'
At least 120 people spoke during the meeting on the county's effort to handle the pandemic. The meeting was streamed online and lasted 4 and a half hours.
The meeting was held on the same day that San Diego County announced that they will begin collecting vaccination verification from its 18,000 employees. Those who are not vaccinated will be subjected to weekly testing and required to wear mask while indoors.
The county is also suggesting that local business owners in private, public, and nonprofit sectors require their employees to follow these same precautions.
Matt Baker stepped up to the microphone at the local meeting and began whistling calling upon 'the wind of time.'
He said: 'That's the wind. That's the wind of time. That's the wind of history. That's the wind blowing through your ancestors' bones begging you to do the right thing. That is the wind that Matt Baker is calling upon from Ocean Beach.'
San Diego County resident Matt Baker accused the board of being Nazis and passionately claimed they were in violation of international human rights law
Several residents claimed to be health care providers , while questioning the science behind the vaccines
'The wind that is blowing through the Black people, through the white people, through the Chinese people, through the Mexican Americans to the people that built this building with their bare hands to raise up this nation.'
His intensity increased as he raised his voice, 'You are about to open a pit of hell. You do not get a vaccine passport put on us. You know as the population who's in control, you know as politicians—once you get a power, you never relinquish it.'
Accusing the local government authorities of being Nazis he continued to shout, 'Your children and your children's children will be subjugated! They will be asked, 'How many vaccines have you had? Have you been a good little Nazi? Heil Fauci! Heil Fauci! Heil Fauci!'
Others also joined in Baker's anger while addressing the board.
Consuelo Henken addressed the supervisors arguing, 'This is not a war on covid this a war on the people' as she claimed 'fear is the real virus here.'
After another resident called for Public Health Officer Dr. Wilma Wootan and board Chair Nathan Fletcher's resignations, Henken accused Wootan of spreading 'so many lies.' Saying 'you have and are putting the lives of all of San Diego County in danger. Keeping us masked up has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with submission and control.'
Consuelo Henken helped a woman in a wheelchair identifying herself as a nurse who does not believing in the vaccine after her time to speak was up
Henken has been accused on Twitter of getting into a physical altercation with a counter protestor a few days before the county board meeting
On Twitter, Henken was accused of getting into a physical altercation with a counter protestor a few days before the county meeting.
Audra Morgan, who has spoke at previous local meetings, brought her bible up to the microphone with her claiming that the supervisors would burn if they touched it. She accused them of 'crimes against humanity' warning 'We're coming for every single f***ng one of you.'
Morgan has also been accused on Twitter of assaulting people during an earlier protest.
Audra Morgan warned the county supervisors 'We're coming for every single f***ng one of you' as she brandished her bible which she claimed would burn the supervisors
Morgan has also been accused on Twitter of assaulting people during earlier anti-vaxx protest
Cynthia DeMaria described the covid mandates as 'psychological war fare.' She said 'It has nothing to do with our health. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but the last time I checked that government cares about your health and safety, it's absolutely the opposite. They don't care about our safety and it is about control.'
Several residents claimed to be nurses but denied the importance of mask and questioned the science behind the vaccine. Many furiously insisted that their rights were being infringed upon by mask and vaccine mandates and claimed that the mandates were truly about control and money.
But not everyone is against the mask mandates. Escondido resident Kevin Stevenson called in and said he had listened for nearly four hours to 'unhinged death cultists' and thanked the board for their efforts to protect the residents against the infectious disease.
San Diego's recommendation that local business owners require their employees to be vaccinated or be tested was met with fast rejection by ReOpen San Diego.
In a statement to Fox News 8, the group said Tuesday's goal is, 'to ask all businesses and government agencies not to request proof of vaccination as a condition of service or employment.'
'We don't all look the same, but we're united for one purpose and what that purpose is liberty,' said Shaun Frederickson, who went viral earlier this summer for his public comments at a meeting with Dr. Wooten.
'The beauty of liberty is we can disagree and here we are, where we have the ability to disagree and stand in unity and know that there's one thing that's worth preserving, and that's our freedom.'
'Hundreds of businesses have already signed a Business Equality Pledge and posted a Proclamation pledging not to discriminate,' said the group. 'Citizens are also signing a petition to refuse to comply with these arbitrary and unconstitutional requirements.'
Last week, California became the first state to require teachers at both public and private schools to be vaccinated or participate in weekly testing and wear a mask. Governor Newsom has also required healthcare workers and state employees to adhere to the same guidelines.
But as covid continues to surge many are fighting back against the mandates. California schools began the academic year last week when a father punched a teacher and sent him to the ER over an argument about mask mandates.
The father has been banned from his daughter's elementary school after allegedly punching a male teacher in the face during an argument over the mask mandate on the first day of school on Wednesday.
The teacher was left with lacerations to his face and sent to the emergency room after defending the principal from the 'serious physical altercation' at Sutter Creek Elementary School, 30 miles south east of Sacramento.
Amador County Unified School District Superintendent Torie Gibson (pictured) said the teacher was left with 'lacerations on his face, some bruising on his face, and a pretty good knot on the back of his head'
Police arrived to Sutter Creek Elementary on August 11 after the parent left the scene and are now investigating the situation. The teacher returned to work the next day
Sutter Creek Police Department was not available to comment on the situation
The father - who has not been named by officials - had been an hour late to pick up his daughter, Amador County Unified School District Superintendent Torie Gibson told BuzzFeed.
But he became angry after seeing the child and the school's principal wearing masks as they came out of the school building. The school is following California's mask mandate in schools, which was announced in July.
Returning to the school later, the father allegedly began verbally attacking principal, claiming that the 'kids are treated like animals.'
'The dad went totally crazy,' Gibson said.
A male teacher - who has also not been named - then stepped in to protect the school's female principal, and the father is alleged to have got physical, punching the teacher in the face.
'The teacher was bleeding,' Gibson told KCRA 3. 'He had some lacerations on his face, some bruising on his face, and a pretty good knot on the back of his head.'
The teacher was treated at an emergency room for injuries and released late Wednesday night.
Gibson said the incident began when the father became incensed after he saw some staff members in the teachers' lounge who were not masked.
Since the students were released from classes for the day, the guidelines allow for fully vaccinated teachers to forgo masks while indoors when students are not present.
'Dad was upset feeling like there was a double standard,' Gibson said.
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