Pandemic policies, past and present.

With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020, personal health freedom and personal bodily autonomy were challenged by governmental mandates. The efforts to mandate COVID-19 counter-measures featured unprecedented intrusions upon personal freedoms and bodily autonomy. Lockdowns and business closures were imposed not just on those who were ill but also on those who were perfectly well and able and willing to work. Most schools were closed, church attendance and other public gatherings were forbidden, and many businesses, especially small ones, were shut down and all too many of them failed and went out of business, while large businesses and liquor stores thrived. There were mask mandates, social distancing mandates and, when the time came, heavy promotion and even mandating of COVID-19 shots.

Does anyone remember any of this, and what do the candidates say now? Is there any glimmer of a recognition that health freedom principles were violated? Were serious mistakes in public policy made? Maybe election time is the time to ask.

Did state or federal governments over-step when mandates were ordered? Were individual rights trampled upon by agencies and institutions when governmental agencies required all employees to receive COVID-19 shots and when colleges and universities required these injections as a condition for enrollment? We all need to remember and uphold our country’s founding principles of freedom and that all people have a fundamental right of bodily autonomy including the right to refuse medical injections, treatments, and testing! If not, what’s next, aerosol vaccination from the skies?

Why it matters who gets elected, who wins.

If you think about it, it matters a lot who wins, especially if you hold out hopes for protecting health freedom and restoring integrity to powerful federal agencies and to state agencies like the state department of health. In terms of federal power, it is the President of the United States, no one else, who appoints heads of the FCC, FDA, CDC, NIH and the EPA, powerful agencies that should be serving the public interest and, we would hope, honoring the constitution and respecting our basic freedoms. So, if we want a sea change in federal policies, we will want a president who not only provides the right policies and leadership, but also make appointments that reflect integrity and an appreciation of our health and freedom principles.

Governors play a similarly important role at the state level. They provide policy leadership, and they make important appointments to state agencies and leadership positions. Is your governor running on a record of how he or she handled state lockdowns, state mandates and how the state department of health handled these issues? Is anybody asking? The mainstream media seldom focuses on the important principles of health freedom that we raise, but we suggest that citizens use every form of ingenuity to bring those issues to life in the public discourse.

Answers to these citizen questions will allow understanding of who will stand with us to support each of our journeys in and to health as well as who might stand to protect our health during a public health emergency.