After an uproar of 215 public commenters spoke during a recent Orange County Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting, county officials are reiterating to the public that the upcoming vaccine verification program is voluntary. “I really respect people’s freedom to voice whatever their opinion is, whether it be anti-mask, or anti-vaccine because that’s the beauty of our country…you have a freedom of choice,” Orange County Health Care Agency (OCHCA) director Dr. Clayton Chau told The Epoch Times April 16. “That’s the piece that I was trying to tell people; that I’m not mandating anybody to get the vaccine.” Chau said that despite explaining himself and addressing misstatements about him during the BOS meeting, people continued to accuse him of wanting to force vaccines on residents. “People want to interpret it whichever way people want to interpret,” he said. “We, as a healthcare agency, provide the vaccine, a treatment. We have an obligation to give people verification that they have received …