This story was told by a person incarcerated at New Folsom.
UCI: So was there anyone else that refused to get their vaccine?
Caller: There’s been several people that didn’t take it for whatever purposes that they didn’t’ do it. I would’ve taken it. The only reason I didn’t take it is because of my medical condition requires me not to take it.
And then when I was telling the nurses and showing them the instructions on my medical paperwork, then they tell me “Oh, it’s not a vaccine.” I said “What do you mean it’s not a vaccine?”
And so they start telling me this other stuff and I said “Okay, well if it’s not a vaccine, then why are you trying to get me to take it anyway?” It’s just been up in the air, and as of right now, I’m still trying to get a response to my medical appeals. I filed two or three medical appeals, tryna get a response to why such action was taken.
And then at first, when I was trying to have them put me in the infirmary until it’s confirmed that this is positive and that I have this, they had sergeant coming in to then, they was trying to set me up to where I was gonna get into physical altercation with all the inmates trying to yell all over the kid that I’m putting everybody else in danger and this and that.
And that I got COVID-19 and they were violating all the medical protocols and custody protocols when it comes to that. So, to keep the peace because we had a lot of people in uproar—some with the custody and some against what they were doing—and so I just went down there and did the 14 days of quarantine.
And the thing is that nobody in this section was tested positive. And see, I don’t go outside cause I’ve been social distancing with my medical conditions since 2013. So, the only time I go outside is to go to canteen, pick up my special purchase or package, and go to the law library and go to medical ducat.
So I’m wondering, if nobody in this section has COVID-19, and they go outside everyday, and I’m staying in my cell, and I don’t even go to the shower and when I do go to the showers and I’m clean, I just bird bath in my cell.
And so nobody else have it in this section and I don’t come out of my cell—that was my own little self-made bubble—then how did I catch it and how did nobody else in here got it.
