Frustrated with Vaccine Mandates? Try Living In China For A Year

Scott A. Weiss
5 min readSep 1, 2021
People gather outside the Capitol to protest Gov. Jay Inslee’s vaccine mandate for state workers, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021 in Olympia, Wash. (Drew Perine/The News Tribune via AP)

This past weekend, thousands of Americans took to the streets public to protest mandatory COVID-19 vaccine mandates. As reported by the Los Angeles Times, protestors carrying U.S. flags and holding signs that read “No jabs for jobs” and “Stop the medical tyranny,” gathered near the Santa Monica Pier to make their voices heard as part of a demonstration billed as a “worldwide rally for freedom”. This trend will undoubtedly continue, as more private and public organizations around the country institute their own mandates in an effort to curb the spread of the highly-infections Delta variant of the virus.

“Even if I didn’t get COVID-19, the government shouldn’t tell me what to do.”

Hugo Valdivia, a captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department, feels betrayed by the vaccination mandate. “Even if I didn’t get COVID-19, the government shouldn’t tell me what to do,” he told the LA Times. Valdivia worked during the height of the pandemic, contracted COVID-19 and believes his natural antibodies will protect him.

LA County Fire Department Captain Hugo Valdivia (R) — image courtesy LM Lamplighter

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Scott A. Weiss

Author, freelance writer and self-employed recruiter. Bylines in the Daily Beast, Seattle Times, Classic Rock Magazine, LouderSound.