# Dr. Jessica Peatross on Vaccine Mandates and Informed Consent - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2108976953663648172 - Source account: [@HerbsandDirt](https://x.com/HerbsandDirt) - Source language: English - Duration: 2:17 - Published: 2026-10-11 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent ## Transcript [0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=2) Good morning. Hello, good morning. My name's Dr. Jessica Peatross. [0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=5) I'm a former board-certified medical doctor in internal medicine, turned root cause physician that now gets patients off of medication rather than put them on. And I now reverse things I was told in my regular medical career that never could be reversed. I'm here because I want to talk with you [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=21) guys about informed consent and how making mandates actually, um, erodes that. I'm not here to argue against vaccines. [0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=28) I'm here to argue for something every physician in this room was trained to protect, which is informed per-- consent. [0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=33) And we all know when you don't give the patient the vaccine man-- or label in-insert, then you don't give them informed consent. [0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=39) You tell them they're safe and effective every time, and that's it, and that's simply not true. So informed consent means a patient or, or a parent hears the benefits, hears the risk, asks the questions, and then makes the decision. [0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=51) A mandate stops and removes that last step. [0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=53) And when we remove the decision, we stop practicing medicine with people, and we start practicing it on them. You see, previously in a past life, I worked in California when SB two seven six was passed. [1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=63) It was a witch hunt for us doctors. I did do vaccine exemptions at the time. [1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=67) You know what they did, they subpoenaed m-- patients' medical records without their permission, opened them up under the guise of safety to check legimi-legitimacy of the vaccine exemption. They also published all the unvaccinated children's names in the unified-- San Diego Unified School System next to the doctor that [1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=81) gave the exemption. Okay? So that's what mandates get you. [1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=86) All right? So if that's what you're looking for, that's what will happen. [1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=88) California's the trailblazer in this. So I hope everyone knows what they're getting into when they do this because instead of taking their punishment of ninety hours of re-education, three years of probation, and a stipulated license because it nulls all other vaccine [1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=101) exemptions when they get one doctor in trouble and disciplined, I surrendered my medical license willingly because I don't kiss the ring of a corrupt institution. [1:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=113) I urge you to please keep mandates out of this. [1:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=117) We are still allowing me-- the vaccines. They're still available. [2:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=121) Keep the data transparent, protect meaningful exemptions, and leave the final decision where it belongs, between a patient, their family, and the physician. [2:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=127) Respecting choice isn't anti-medicine. It's the heart of it, my friends. [2:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7VV33QGfC7hz/en/dr-jessica-peatross-on-vaccine-mandates-and-informed-consent?t=130) Thank you. Thank you.