Though elites try to memory hole the COVID-19 era, Americans viscerally remember the absurdity of it all. Churches were closed, but liquor stores were open. No to a funeral for your deceased grandpa, but yes to mass BLM riots. Wear a mask and stay home, unless you’re Nancy Pelosi getting a spa treatment or Gavin Newsom enjoying a luxurious Michelin-star dinner.
But perhaps the most infuriating and offensive COVID policy was the vaccine mandates. Even many of those who begrudgingly lifted their useless paper masks above their noses between bites at restaurants, studiously kept the arbitrarily determined six-foot distance away from their fellow citizens, and dutifully dropped their sacred ballots into unsecure drop boxes during the 2020 election couldn’t quite stomach being ordered to receive injections of an experimental serum followed by boosters ad infinitum at risk of losing their job or being kicked out of school. If your government, employer, or university can force you to take untested medicine just so you can earn a living, take a class, or walk into a restaurant, then freedom is dead.
Thanks to the stalwart civil disobedience of courageous citizens and the time-tested strength of our Constitutional rights, vaccine mandates were defeated many times over in court. But this week, we have even more to celebrate. Two events in Washington have vindicated the COVID vaccine objectors and restored the truth and justice that were violated during the dark days of the pandemic.
The first was a major settlement by the Department of Justice with the group Feds for Freedom, represented by Boyden Gray PLLC, which had spent years fighting the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate in court. With the Biden-era tyrants booted and Trump-chosen officials now at the helm, the federal government agreed to several major policy changes.
One change is that civilian government employees can no longer be punished based on their vaccination status or refusal to comply with vaccine mandates. No more getting fired or demoted for refusing to get the jab.
A second change is that all vaccine and vaccine exemption records must be removed from employee files, unless the employee affirmatively wants to keep those records in place. That means the next “progressive” president can’t use vaccine noncompliance as a tool to purge the federal workforce.
Not only is this a huge win for civil liberties, but it is also a tacit acknowledgment that employees who resisted vaccine mandates had the right to do so all along.
Yet this settlement was only one of two major vaccine developments this week. A few days prior, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced that his agency was cancelling investments in mRNA vaccines, including those used for COVID. Why? Because after years of study, we’ve learned they don’t work for upper respiratory viruses.
As Secretary Kennedy put it, “mRNA only codes for a small part of the viral proteins, usually a single antigen. One mutation and the vaccine becomes ineffective.”
Not only does this mean that those who receive the mRNA vaccine are undefended against COVID variants, but this type of vaccine also, in Kennedy’s words, “paradoxically encourages new mutations.”
Simply put, many of the most popular untested vaccines pushed on us by our government both didn’t work and potentially made the pandemic worse. Americans were lied to on a massive scale by their government and by the medical establishment.
If the DOJ vaccine mandate settlement helped restore justice, Kennedy’s announcements restored truth and transparency to public health. COVID vaccine skeptics weren’t unreasonable for resisting vaccine mandates. In fact, they were right to urge caution in response to those hell-bent on conducting a population-wide science experiment.
To be sure, Americans should be and still are free to take whatever vaccines they wish, just as they should be free to not take them. But Americans are also entitled to all of the information available about what is going into their bodies – something that has been sorely missing in recent decades.
Our nation has yet to fully reckon with the tyranny we endured during the COVID era. Few officials have suffered consequences for treating American citizens like lab rats. Governors in states across the nation still have the power to close your business, lock your church, or even limit what aisle you can walk down at Home Depot if ever they unilaterally decide an “emergency” warrants it. Every lost soul still wearing a mask while meandering through the grocery store or walking through the park is a sign that some of the harm our leaders inflicted on the American people is irreversible.
But this week should give us hope. It may take time, but what’s right can still win as long as we don’t stop fighting.
Horatius is the pen name of a writer who served in the first Trump White House and on Capitol Hill.

Fauci should be behind bars. He was a liar, made up those ridiculous rules about the stupid masks which did nothing unless it was an N19, and the famous 6 feet apart.
Just proves again that a vote for a Democrat is a vote for tyranny.
The next mandate that MUST be removed is that imposed by schools, at all levels of education, requiring proof of the mRNA vaxx before admittance.
Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, would be proud of Antony Fauci, Francis Collins, and Rochelle Walensky for the murder of over 7 million innocent people worldwide from the Covid vaccine jabs. Yet, there is no justice to incarcerate these murders. The American Medical Association is no longer to be believed and we should all be skeptical of our family doctor’s recommendations. The damage done by these people will be long lasting.
“It may take time, but what’s right can still win as long as we don’t stop fighting.”. Always remember!
Good start, but falls short. The current administration needs to legislate permanent separation from the WHO and the WEF’s efforts to globalize vaccine programs. Beyond that, the US needs to kick the UN out of the USA and remove itself from UN membership. Only then will we have a chance at shutting down the global effort to create the One-World government of Satan and the marxists.
My health hasn’t been the same since I was forced by my employer to get the shots. Been suffering ever since with shortness of breath. I never should have caved.
Great article.
Zero covid jabs and zero testing for covid. Have I ever had covid? I have no idea. I could use a few apologies for treatment during this time.
Hosptal administrators and doctors, as well as politicians who arbitrarily set their guidelines, and who refused patients life saving organ transplants, or treatments based upon their vaccine status will need to be sent to jail before this particular page in history can be finally turned, nothing less will do to restore a semblance of due process.
Solid article! Perhaps the biggest and most damaging lie was that there were no other effective treatments available for the CCP-Wuhan Virus! That lie permitted the government to proceed with only the Jab even though it was virtually untested, unapproved, and still an “emergency” treatment. Thus, they ignored and banished the decades old effective treatments of Ivermectin and HCQ. The effective use of which caused many doctors to lose their licenses and employment.
Well, well! Will anyone ever have the fortitude to go after China for foisting this upon the world?
So happy I did not have a Covid shot and no test. Glad my resistance and statements have been validated. At 70+, my family and friends who were concerned for me can breathe easily. And my objections to my doctor are true – although I am sure she was following company policies.
Time to tell it like it is. Vaccines must be certified and a solution for whatever disease or virus. It takes T I M E for complete knowledge as to the success of a vaccine. Ingredients must be tested consistently for any negative reaction. Covid Vaxx was NOT a tested vaccine. It was produced and ready to inject. UNSAFE. And many injuries and death were the results. Not from the Covid Virus, yet, proven by the substance in the injection.
I am so glad that we have RFK Jr. working to protect us. Some one with a brain that doesn’t push an agenda just for money and power.
My granddaughter and her kids never received the vaccine. She took them out of school and home schooled them and they are all fine. I never received the ‘so called vaccine’ and I did get covid but was hardly sick at all…no worse then regular flu…and my friend who had 2 shots and a booster was sicker then a dog for over a week. Fauci should be hanged from the nearest tree.
People, isn’t it amazing that “We the People^ only seem to matter to Democraps when it’s time to vote? They want to be in POWER only to dominate and rule over their fellow citizens. In other words they want the POWER to decide “Whats good for thee but Not for me”. They seem to think they are so better qualifiedt to know what’s best for you! But it’s just an excuse to POWER GRAB. They’re pompous, arrogant jackasses who were never capable in competing physically with most people their own age or size.
With These new findings, I certainly hope that someone goes to jail and that the WHO and CDC get cleaned up.
I would really like to know what was in the flu shot last year. It made both my husband and I very sick. We’ve never become ill after a flu shot. Many of our friends experienced the same reaction. I wonder how many others here have had the same experience. The Fauci flu shot. Hmmm…
The vaccine gave me Myocarditis. Never had the COVID. I wish I hadn’t taken the vaccine but the Biden administration along with the MSM propaganda made it almost mandatory to take it. While they knew it DIDNT protect you at all. I had two initial shots and one booster which did me in. I have cardiologists visits, cardio rehab, I am tired every day. Friends of mine never took a shot had the COVID and were immune and have no health problems. And here they were putting us people in hospitals and kept our kids from visiting us. More died from loneliness than from COVID. Old people were jumping out of 10 story buildings and many still are being isolated by this who still wear a mask today because the COVID has been sold to them as lethal. I never wore a mask or got caught up in the hysteria the democrats were selling us. And now the mosquito virus is being sold. Anything and everything to get us to take these experimental meds that only kills or maims or sterilizes us. Our children who were out of school still haven’t recovered from what they lost. We created a whole generation of people suspicious of any government policies. No wonder communism is getting so popular. We had 4 years of lies and more lies and the dems are still lying.
Robert Kennedy Jr is right no more mRNA based vaccines. Personally I am done with vaccines including the flu. The only one that benefitted was Big Pharma.
I would like to know whether there have been studies about the negative effects of the various COVID jabs, and the results of such studies. I hear many reports of an increase in strokes, heart attacks, and other severe ailments, and I’ve read that autopsies have shown a bizarre clotting running the length of the veins of many deceased people, and the implication has been that these were directly linked to COVID jabs. It would be helpful to see what studies might show, provided that they are independent studies (not conducted by those who developed and pushed for the jabs). If the jabs are found to have been linked to an increase in negative medical outcomes and deaths then the medical community, pharmaceutical companies, politicians, and employers that coercively foisted this horrific and untested pandemic response on the public should be subject to massive criminal and civil punishment.
Covid was the biggest and most widespread conspiracy in history. It was perpetrated by the CCP in cooperation with their friends, the Democrats, and was intended to accomplish several goals. The two most important goals were, first, to create the conditions and circumstances to enable the theft of the 2020 presidential election, and second, to give a jump start to The Great Reset, a necessity for the establishment of The Deep State worldwide dictatorship. All of “the establishment” went along with the scam, nearly all of them quite willingly. This included the media, Big Pharma, academia, elected officials and government agencies at all levels, and most sadly of all, nearly the entire medical profession. They must all be held accountable for this fraud, the greatest crime against humanity ever committed.
I got the first 3 rounds of the Covid vaccines. Also came down with Covid three times. Since then, I have had no updated Covid vaccines and will not ever. It is appalling what the DC Democrats did to we, the people during these past years. How anyone can even think about voting for any of them again is something I cannot understand.
I can’t forget the pandemic because in 2021 my wife passed away of an illness that was not related to the covid virus. She died of septic shock because her kidneys and liver shut down. I was prevented from visiting her in the hospital because of the stupid mandates. So she died alone.
I love the fact that covid vaccine refusers were Vindicated I think they should go further than that and the ones who pushed the mandatory vaccine should be held accountable they should be punished absolutely that is where I stand . It seems no one is ever held accountable for the evils they do in our government and it is not right when the citizens who are not the leaders are held accountable constantly always for stupid stuff and stolen from for doing a little speeding or doing something like not having their seatbelt on, not to mention the rent that is absolutely undoable for most Americans that we have to pay sooo much $ for the electric is way too high for most people to pay the food prices are still way too freaking high for me to make a living it’s just unbelievable! can you report on this can you do something about this not to mention the poisons they put in our food making it unreachable for us to buy the foods that are not going to poison our body that’s the problem I’m having right now I’m 67 I’ve worked so hard most of my life my body cannot do it anymore so I can’t afford anything anymore I wasn’t smart enough to save a lot of money for retirement and I’m screwed
Since there was fraud of the highest order perpetrated upon the American public and drug companies made millions if not trillions of dollars on that fraud, in my opinion, all the senior directors who knew of the fraud and profited from this fraud should be indicted for that fraud. The money these companies illegally made should be given back to the US Treasury to be used for the sole purpose of reducing our debt.
Never mind the vindication what about the consequences for those who orchestrated this horror. Mengele aka Fauci is untouchable as are those who quickly made a buck on supplying the miracle vaccine. Covid and it’s scare did turn the whole country upside down That was not an impromptu revue, but a complex production with the producer, director and stage hands and the cast. Are there any personal consequences for any of them? It’s easy to punish the company, but it does not run itself .
Fauci and all his collaborators need to go to jail. We, the U.S., need to get out of the U.N. and kick them the heck off our land. Close that building and fumigate it. They are worse than the League of Nations was.
Just remember, blue helmets make great targets.
That moderna first shot gave me neuropathy. I will never take another vaccine
I was told by my company, where I worked for 37 years if I wanted to work there I had to be fully vaccinated. I told them if that’s the case, I’ll retire. Luckily for me I was a required skill, so after a silly accommodation meeting I was told I could stay. The company used the mandate to get rid of people. I retired at 40 years and I’m proud to say, I never took the jab! I will never trust the CDC – WHO or big pharma ever again!
I’m so glad my hubby and I refused to get the vaccine!
Who’s going to prison for the lies and deaths?
The fact that mRNA vaccines are not effective against upper respiratory viruses is not surprising given that they were developed primarily to inpact lower respiratory viruses in the lungs.
In all honesty all of it was equally bad. Covid proved that people can be manipulated into such fear that they are willing to comply with any idiotic mandate. What the Covid years did was prove that the public is extremely easy to manipulate, that it is very easy to cheat in an election and that because of it and the Biden years our country is more divided than ever. I have seen mistrust and bullying from both sides of the aisle because of all of this. To be honest we are on our way to getting our national back but if we can’t overcome the divisiveness we may not last much longer. I can imagine the Founding Fathers work through many scenarios while drafting the Constitution, but I don’t know if they could have ever imagined this.
A little late for us federal employees forced to take the vacine to keep our jobs. I got an upper respiratory tract infection when I caught Covid, which I never have had during my life, i woke up not being able to hear in one ear. and immediately went to ER. I now have hearing loss.
Americans should be able to Sue Fauci for every penny he has
I was a guinee pig for the democ RATS poison.My life changed 180 degrees after this crap.Joint pain,lite headed,memory,all within three weeks of phizers second dose.The liberals can say what they want,but they lie all the time anyway.
AMEN! Keep fighting for our freedom, and our health.
I took the COVID Vaccine and I almost died from it. I know have an incurable debilitating disease that cause weakness, numbness and trouble breathing. I can no longer work and can not live by myself, I have to use a walker to walk. The government still has not approved my disability claim
Fauci had covid more times than
anyone. Hes corrupt
The VERY BEST ARTICLE written in a long time. Thank you Horatius!!
Once or twice during the first six months and twenty I probably had coven. Probably. Never took the job and have never been sick since.
But everyone I know who took the job have been sick with covid over and over again.
Previous commenters say that Fauci should be in jail. He isn’t the only one.
I’m a Pure Blood, and proud of it.
I love that the truth is finally being revealed! Me and my family realsed that from the beginning, merely by thinking we didn’t want our DNA used as a government experiment for their drug testing.
My daughter got fired from her job because she refused to wear a mask.
I think, regardless of vaccination type, if everyone else is vaccinated, including children’s vaccinations, then I’m the only one who has to worry about getting sick, right? It should be my choice.
I’ve become skeptical of most everything I hear or read and always check who is saying it and why. Using a “pen name” to publish a statement prevents me from doing that with this article, even though I tend to agree with it.
two of my doctors, in separate appointments, said in zombie-like fashion, the vax is “safe and effective.” I’ll need to verify anything they say, and not trust most “doctors” in the future. Luckily, I did not get the shot, as I got covid before I had to succumb to the democrat fascists. Remember when they said natural immunity “doesn’t count?”
Biden was true socialist , Try to convert this country to his idea of what America should be, Kind wonder if Dr. Jill Biden was running this country! With help Dr Fauci
I feel vindicated!
Dumba$$ocrats. The GOP. BOTH telling us what to do/think. Or ELSE!
I believe the mandate hoax was government checking to see how easily they could exercise their power over the citizenry, turning us into lemmings.