Joe Biden has been urging US employers to issue ultimatums to their staff: get vaccinated, or lose your job.
The president says he will soon bring in a mandate that requires all healthcare workers to have had the jab, and has urged states to do the same with teachers.
However, the option of receiving the jab or regular testing is unacceptable to many Americans.
Kahseim Outlaw who was named teacher of the year at his high school last year just lost his job in Wallingford, Connecticut for refusing the jab or regular testing.
He felt the mandate to get the jab introduced by the state authorities was something he could not comply with.
“I do not use any kind of synthetic ingredients in my life, whether that be for medicinal purposes, supplementation or food. So the idea of becoming inoculated is something that goes directly against the way that I live my life,” he said.
He continued: “The way that our soul speaks to us, that little voice that tells us when something is in alignment or not, that voice is telling me that I need to make this particular decision right now.”
Mr Outlaw said he was prepared to undertake was an antibody test to show he had contracted Covid in the past, as he believes he did, and so has the body’s natural immunity to the virus. He accepts that there is no telling how long a natural immune response will last.
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