"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
- Made by
- Unidentified participant at a 'Free Ohio Now' rally against state COVID-19 orders, Ohio Statehouse
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Individual
- Regime
- Trump Administration
- Leader
- Donald Trump
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Health, Media and information
- Event
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from Flickr, Becker1999), 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
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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