Few things are more illustrative of government corruption during the COVID-19 pandemic than the clandestine capture of private medical organizations by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in what would eventually be exposed as a covert propaganda campaign to push experimental mRNA shots into every arm. Of all the lessons learned from the pandemic, this lesson is among the most important for those who envision the U.S. as a free democracy protected by the First Amendment.