Posted on Friday, August 8, 2025
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by Horatius
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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.
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