‘This is totalitarianism’: Doctor ejected
from his US hospital for not being jabbed
vows to keep fighting for medical freedom
RT.com
A shocking video of respected anesthesiologist Chris Rake being kicked out of his job has gone viral. He explains to RT.com why he opposes mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations and is prepared to never practice medicine again.
“This is totalitarianism. I’ve come out and said, ‘No, you’re not going to do that, not on my watch’… I’m willing to give my life to this cause.”
These words prove just how divided America is.
They belong to Doctor Rake, an anesthesiologist at the prestigious University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) hospital. A video of him being escorted by security guards out of the hospital because he is unvaccinated against Covid-19 went viral last week.
California has mandated that all healthcare workers must be vaccinated, otherwise, they will lose their jobs. The cut-off was October 1 and Dr. Rake was later that day sent an email stating that, from October 4, he would be placed on unpaid administrative leave.
The doctor, who has been qualified for 16 years and worked at UCLA for 11 years, treated it as a normal working day. “Next thing I know the chair of my department showed up with two security guys, and they walked me out of the building,” he tells me. “You probably couldn’t tell from the video, but I was some of the most nervous I’ve ever been in my whole life, my legs were shaking. I was going down the stairs and I could hardly keep my legs underneath me. I was so in shock, a place I love and a job I’ve committed my life to, they are just walking me out for being unvaccinated.”
Dr. Rake’s opposition to mandatory vaccines had earlier seen him create a group called Citizens United for Freedom (CUFF).
It was initially focused on opposing mandatory flu jabs, but morphed into focusing on Covid-19. So his stance was not news to his employers. “I was vocal and public about my opposition to mandating medical procedures,” Dr. Rake explains. “Our group is not anti-vaccine, we have some vaccinated people… our group is pro-medical freedom, ‘your body, your choice’, ‘my body, my choice’.”
The issue is clear to him: “It’s violating medical ethics and to me, as a physician, this is the greatest problem I see. I just can’t believe more physicians aren’t speaking out against it. How can you tell me that I can’t force another individual to do what I want as a physician, but you, my employer, UCLA, are going to force me to?”What sets Dr. Rake, 47, apart from many unhappy about vaccine mandates is that he is an experienced doctor at a well-known and respected hospital. He also has a master’s in Public Health.
It’s a scientific fact that vaccines have cured diseases and improved public health, but that’s not the issue.
“I’m not anti-vaccine, I’m just anti this one,” he insists. “Vaccination cured smallpox and cured polio, but because of the totalitarian issues I’m seeing arise from the implementation, how the government has taken advantage of this situation, my thinking on vaccination has changed more towards medical freedom. Despite any appeal to the collective good, you still shouldn’t be able to force people.”
“Let’s say this injection took away 100% of human disease and they said, ‘You’re the last hold out, you’ve got to take this vaccine’. I’d say that guy has the right and individual freedom, even if 8 billion other people have taken it already, to not take that injection. That’s my position, I know some people will call that radical, but that’s what America was founded on. The Constitution didn’t grant anyone rights, in the Declaration of Independence they acknowledged we already have these rights and they are given by God, not by governments.”
There are two branches to Dr. Rake’s strong view why forced vaccinations cannot be tolerated.
The first is a legal one. It’s his belief that US law, under the federal code of regulations governing the administration of drugs – specifically Title 21, section 360bbb – prohibits mandating emergency treatments such as the Covid19 vaccinations: “It’s illegal by federal law in the United States to force somebody to take a EUA [Emergency Use Authorization] product; our state is violating federal law, they are violating the Nuremberg code that says your can’t force people to take treatments.”