The COVID pandemic has exposed the deep-seated flaws in our medical system, our public health institutions, and in our democracy as a whole. It has exposed the private special interests that dictate government policy, and the ties to media that reinforce that message from the government. As I observe the larger patterns, we are now in a fight for our very freedoms – our freedom from the influence of state-controlled media, our freedom of bodily autonomy and self-expression, our freedom of speech, and our freedom to find truth.