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title: '"We are woke to your PLANdemic" placard, Columbus, Ohio'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/plandemic-protest-sign-2020/
description: A hand-lettered placard at an anti-lockdown rally, five days after the video Plandemic appeared, renames the pandemic a 'PLANdemic' and refuses 'a Gates…
section: Collection
---

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[!["We are woke to your PLANdemic" placard, Columbus, Ohio](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/plandemic-protest-sign-2020.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/plandemic-protest-sign-2020.jpg)

# "We are woke to your PLANdemic" placard, Columbus, Ohio

A hand-lettered placard at an anti-lockdown rally, five days after the video Plandemic appeared, renames the pandemic a 'PLANdemic' and refuses 'a Gates vaccine'. The coined label asserts that the outbreak was planned, and ties a future vaccine to a named individual, before any claim is argued.

- **Date:** May 9, 2020
- **Period:** [Contemporary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=contemporary)
- **Made by:** Unidentified participant at a 'Free Ohio Now' rally against state COVID-19 orders, Ohio Statehouse
- **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america)
- **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states)
- **Medium:** [Signs and banners](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=sign-banner)
- **Issuer type:** [Individual](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=individual)
- **Regime:** [Trump Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=trump-administration)
- **Leader:** [Donald Trump](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=donald-trump)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [Health](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=health), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information)
- **Event:** [COVID-19 pandemic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=covid-19-pandemic)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (from Flickr, Becker1999)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Free_Ohio_Now%27_(Columbus)_bIMG_0868_(49876163551).jpg), retrieved September 27, 2026
- **Rights:** CC BY 2.0 (cropped by FRAME) Photo by Becker1999 (Flickr), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; cropped by FRAME.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
WE ARE WOKE TO YOUR PLANdemic

WE DO NOT CONSENT TO A GATES VACCINE
```

A crossed-out syringe icon appears beside 'PLANdemic' on the placard; not transcribed as it is a pictogram rather than text.

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