When his 19-year-old daughter scrambled to score two Taylor Swift concert tickets, Nathan Friedland wondered what all the fuss was about. With his daughter's encouragement, he realized the themes in the singer's lyrics related to the way he'd seen his female colleagues treated during his 20-year career as a nurse.

The vaccines used to be just another hurdle to overcome like my final exams before I could start my new and exciting career, writes Nathan Friedland. My friends felt the same way. We never talked about refusing to get the mandatory vaccines — until now.