It is a “violation of ethics” that one physician should decide whether 40 million Americans in California get vaccinated against COVID-19 according to Dr. Christopher Rake, who until recently, was an anesthesiologist at the UCLA Medical Centre. As has been the case with numerous states across America, California’s Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued a mandate in early August stating that health workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 30. Rake refused to have the vaccine, or file for a religious exemption, due to his own “philosophical objections to the mandate” and as a consequence, the former UCLA doctor was placed on unpaid administrative leave earlier in October. A video of him being escorted from his workplace by three people after turning up to his job quickly went viral. In the video, Rake explains, “This is what happens when you stand up for freedom, and you show up to work, willing to work, despite being unvaccinated, …