Insanity Continues for Healthcare Students being Forced to Comply with Mandates
By Dr. Randall Bock at America Out Loud Radio
It was a pleasure speaking with Dr. Randall Bock on his podcast which airs on America Out Loud PULSE. If you’d like to listen to our conversation, I invite you to click on the link below. You can also read his summary of our conversation below.
At No College Mandates, we continue the fight for medical freedom for all health science students in the US. They seem to be the only cohort still subject to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and very little attention has been directed towards ending them. Not a single one of us can stand for this any longer. If you’d haven’t already done so, please add your voice to our fight by visiting the Substack post below and sending letters to the listed Congress members.
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Lucia Sinatra didn’t set out to lead a movement. A mother of two, she was preparing her kids for college when she sensed something deeply wrong. “We just didn’t see it happening — people weren’t dying,” she recalled. “But the panic kept growing.” By summer 2021, over a thousand U.S. colleges had issued vaccine mandates. Young, healthy students — some of whom had already recovered from COVID — were told: get the shot, or stay home.
For Sinatra, that crossed a line. “Informed consent and medical freedom are always the right thing. Always.” She began organizing. Rutgers had just declared that students must be vaccinated to attend. Harvard followed with near-impenetrable exemption policies. “These mandates were never about health — they were about control,” she said. “Students had to dis-enroll. Careers were ruined, lives were ruined.”
When Dartmouth, her son’s chosen college, implemented its policy, she responded with fire: “If you take this out on my son, I will rain down upon you with a wrath so great…” They didn’t. He graduated, unvaccinated, with no discrimination. But Lucia became persona non grata. “Eventually, they told me not to come to campus,” she said. “They blocked my emails.”
She founded No College Mandates — a hub for exemption help, legal guidance, and raw data. “I can’t come up with a legal rationale (for colleges’ mandating healthy kids’ getting a vaccine for a coronavirus illness which is no danger for their age group),” she said. “There is no science behind it.” Her site’s most visited resource? A spreadsheet of the 500+ colleges that never mandated COVID-19 shots. “If I had a nickel for every parent who told me they picked a school from that list…”
And yet, mandates persist. Not for undergrads anymore, but for healthcare students — future nurses, dentists, even doctors. “Hospitals are treating students like they’re dirty. It’s insane,” she said. In one of the most absurd reversals of public health logic, the healthiest among us remain barred from clinical rotations unless they accept an outdated vaccine. “You can be a fully trained adult, have had COVID three times, and still be denied entry into a hospital rotation,” she said. “It’s madness.”
I reference my “Is it Time to Accept That Omicron is not COVID-19?“, from 2022, based on which I compare “ANCESTRAL” SARS-CoV-2 and the subsequent “Greek letter” variants of concern (alpha, beta, Delta) to the Baldwin family.
Even if we stipulate “that original virus was Alec Baldwin (the most dangerous of the four actor brothers), we’re now at Haley Baldwin (i.e., omicron); so mild it’s practically unrelated. But they’re still pushing the Alec Baldwin vaccine.”
Lucia agreed. “Nobody knows anybody who died, yet we heard on TV that the world was ending.” And she paid a price. “I lost friends. I got canceled from college forums,” she said. “But I’m not very good at staying silent or keeping my mouth shut — especially in the face of injustice.”
Despite years of struggle, there’s been no reckoning. “Nobody’s apologized,” she said. “They just moved on, pretending it never happened.” But she hasn’t. Not while mandates remain. “I’ve had to talk to trees just to breathe. That’s how crazy it got.”
Looking back, she has no regrets. “If I had to do it all again, I would — only louder, faster, earlier.” The principle remains simple. As I point out: “Our children lost the integrity and continuity of their sociable youth: ages 19, 20, and 21 — formative years — over a cold.”
While virtually no healthy children or young adults died from COVID-19, the public health response inflicted enormous structural harm on this cohort. From a Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY) perspective, we didn’t shorten their lifespan — we degraded their prime functional years. Lucia Sinatra’s focus on college years underlines that ages “18”, “19,” “20,” and “21” are critical for intellectual development, relationship building, career launch, and independence.
For two to three years, this cohort was locked out of campuses, labs, sports, internships, study abroad programs, and social life — essential ingredients of higher education. The cost wasn’t mortality, but the erosion of maturity and opportunity. These were years they will not get back. And it was even worse for those younger and more crucial stages of development. Arguably, whatever gains Big Public Health made via diminishing cigarettes and warning about obesity were lost in a numerical sense, logistically – by lashing out at the young cohort to burnish false safety precepts for others, or for its co-runner (and possible partner in crime) Big Pharma, via Big Vaccines.
Dr. Randall Bock is a physician, writer, and investigative journalist known for his rigorous critiques of health policy and commitment to medical freedom. With over 30 years in primary care, now specializing in men's health at Regeneris Boston, Dr. Bock brings a unique perspective to public health debates, emphasizing patient autonomy and the right to truthful medical discourse. His view on narcotic addiction—as a response to life trauma rather than a disease—led to a temporary suspension of his medical license, which he successfully overturned, defending his right to medical free speech and advocating for tapering-to-sobriety over “maintenance” programs. His article "Methadone Maintenance Ignited America’s Opioid Crisis" critically argues that misguided public health policies—not Purdue Pharma, OxyContin, or fentanyl alone—fueled the opioid epidemic long before OxyContin and fentanyl arrived on the scene. A prominent figure in the COVID-19 resistance, Dr. Bock challenged restrictive policies, calling for transparent risk-benefit assessments. Writing extensively for Brownstone.org, he has been outspoken on issues such as Dr. Fauci’s contradictions. His book, Overturning Zika, debunks the Zika-microcephaly link, exemplifying his dedication to uncovering root causes when public health is misrepresented. Dr. Bock’s analyses on COVID-19, institutional health practices, and their broader implications underscore his commitment to a truthful, patient-centered approach in medicine and public policy.
Congratulations to your son for graduating from Dartmouth! Isn't it astonishing how such educated people can be impervious to the evidence? It's as if they're more invested in protecting their careers than in using their education for what it's for. Thank you, Lucia, for doing the right thing and advocating for college students.
So grateful for your work, Lucia Sinatra. Reading your words just now (“If you take this out on my son, I will rain down upon you with a wrath so great…”) gave me goose bumps and brought me right back to the horror of those days. God bless you and your son for forging and walking this path.