"Keep on Truckin'!"
Sung to the tune of Neil Young's "Heart of Gold," by an "unvaccinated" 14-year-old girl who's now forbidden to perform in New York City
This is a rough recording (link below), but no less moving for that.
From Daisy, the girl’s mother:
Before the plandemic mess, my daughter sang (with her group) at Carnegie Hall, and graced some other of NYC’s stages as a kid performer with hopes of keeping at it; but now she’s banned from performing in the city (no jab, can’t even audition, can’t even go to dance class, though she used to take six a week since age 3); and we’re both banned from much of our homeschooling world, too (me speaking out about our freedoms).
So we both do this “anonymously” because things are so strange with the “arts world” virtually blacklisting and banning unjabbed performers and trying to use toxic shaming and shunning and phony-baloney “Social Justice” language to over-power those wanting to choose differently. So much for the open-minded arts world where anything goes (or used to), here in NYC.
It’s a very bizarre thing but the theater/music world in NYC has gone so judgmental and “woke” that my daughter has had teen friends ousted from their groups and class spaces, for not getting jabbed, and/or for not stating their preferred pronouns, and other absurdities. So performing as “Daisy Moses n’ Kin” (as a “group”) keeps us under the radar here in Weirdsville.
We adults fighting back have weathered storms before and are better equipped to do our own thing and try not to be bitter; but kids and teens are not so well-equipped and how can you tell them their hopes and dreams are dashed? For the past two-plus years their jabbed friends (in NYC most got saline, so these particular kids are still ok health-wise) can audition, thrive and learn in music, dance, theater and even art class (Daisy’s daughter used to paint, too, but now art classes are for jabbed kids only). Unjabbed kids can’t even see their jabbed friends perform or cheer them on—can’t attend the concerts or theater and dance shows which used to inspire them and which formerly brought such joy and light to us all.
Nope, these experiences are (now by design) only open to the injected be-masked and besotted (if I may say it) followers. All the non-compliant kids and families can check their hopes and dreams and ambitions (and years of hard work) like so much baggage – we don’t know if we’ll ever get back what has been checked and if so—if all that’s been packed up in the trunk will have expired. The arts (at least in NY) have caved with not a peep of protest—crickets!—even from kids’ theater companies and kid-specific venues. So those brave truckers have put every New York City movie theater, playhouse and concert hall to shame.
So we sing, “Keep on Truckin’!”—and let’s hope non-conforming young performers will get a second chance to follow their dreams. (There are quite a few of us out there!)
“Keep on Truckin’”:
I can so relate. The ladies' choir that I had joined at the end of 2019 via my local music school went all-in for masks (singers' masks!) and a jab requirement. Just when I was beginning to unlock the secrets of singing well, I had to opt-out. I cannot, will not, sing in a mask. I cannot, will not, take an experimental injection (I have naturally-acquired immunity via the natural infection.) So much for the arts. My heart is broken.
My heart aches for these young people who will not comply. I am praying this experience will make them happier and stronger people in the long run. There are so many who stand behind you. We just all have to find our true tribes now.