Americans Lost Key Medical Freedom Rights During Pandemic, As Courts Quietly Dismantled Constitution

November 4, 2026

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Americans Lost Key Medical Freedom Rights During Pandemic, as Courts Quietly Dismantled Constitution

In a 29-page letter to Sen. Ashley Moody, Brian Ward said that through a series of legal rulings and government actions related to COVID-19 mandates, Americans may have lost the ability to refuse medical interventions, protect their private biomedical information and seek justice when their rights are violated. Ward’s accusations stem in part from a lawsuit he filed in July 2025 against HHS and the FDA.

by Jill Erzen

November 3, 2026

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During the pandemic, government officials and the courts quietly dismantled the U.S. Constitution, stripping Americans of key constitutional protections, according to Florida resident Brian Ward.

In a 29-page letter to Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Fla.), Ward said that through a series of legal rulings and government actions related to COVID-19 mandates, Americans may have lost the ability to refuse medical interventions, protect their private biomedical information and seek justice when their rights are violated.

Ward accused the courts of nullifying one of the Constitution’s most fundamental protections — the right to due process — and modifying the Constitution without a formal amendment.

Ward’s accusations stem in part from a lawsuit he filed in July 2025 against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and then-FDA Commissioner Martin Makary.

Ward challenged 21 C.F.R. Section 50.22, an FDA rule that allows certain clinical investigations to proceed without participants’ informed consent. He argued that the rule violated his constitutional rights to bodily autonomy and due process and his right to be free from involuntary servitude.

The court dismissed the lawsuit, finding that Ward lacked standing to bring the claims.

On a recent episode of the “DarkHorse Podcast,” hosts Bret Weinstein, Ph.D., and Heather Heying, Ph.D., discussed Ward’s argument and why its implications extend far beyond COVID-19 or vaccine mandates.

“What Mr. Ward is advancing here is a very exhaustive discussion of the way in which our rights have been substantially altered,” Weinstein said. “He argues that, effectively, the Constitution is modified without the process that is supposed to be required to modify the Constitution.”

At the center of Ward’s argument is the due process clauses of the Fifth and 14th Amendments, which protect Americans from government actions that deprive them of life, liberty or property without due process of law. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

“You, as a normal person, should be ready to die on the hill that protects your rights,” he said. “Those rights aren’t just your rights, they’re also your children’s rights or your grandchildren’s rights and … the rights of all of the other people in your nation.” ~ Bret Weinstein

Couldn’t agree more.

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‘Another Death One Day After Vaccine’ – Medical Examiners Debated COVID Vaccine Safety, Emails Reveal

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Exclusive: ‘Another Death One Day After Vaccine’ — Medical Examiners Debated COVID Vaccine Safety, Emails Reveal

Internal emails obtained under New York’s Freedom of Information Law and shared with The Defender reveal how the nation’s largest medical examiner’s office and its peers discussed deaths that followed COVID-19 vaccination, amid emerging evidence linking mRNA vaccines to heart damage. Attorney Jimmy Wagner, who requested the documents, said medical examiners’ private discussions contradicted public assurances that the COVID-19 vaccines were safe.

by Henrick Karoliszyn, DSW

November 3, 2026

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Article Excerpts:

Wagner accused city officials of putting “their personal feelings ahead of sound scientific policies.” He said their private discussions contradicted public assurances that the COVID-19 vaccines were safe.

‘Another death one day after vaccine’

The records also show OCME leaders sought outside guidance on post-vaccine deaths within weeks of the vaccine rollout, though details were withheld.

Attorney Sujata Gibson said the emails amount to a storyline medical professionals tried to hide. She told The Defender:

“The city had the warnings. Deaths within a day of vaccination. A teenager found dead days after his second dose. State alerts about myocarditis in young men. Their response was to reassure each other, define injuries so narrowly that almost no one qualified, and call anyone who raised questions a source of ‘misinformation.’ Evidence that didn’t fit the narrative was swept under the rug.” (See link for article)

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**Comment**

This website has posted articles delineating how a devious 2010 plan funded by the Gates Foundation was created to watch mothers who asked questions about vaccine injures by monitoring of social media. A proposal was then sent to registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to recruit mothers into an army that would pressure other mothers to vaccinate. Then a campaign was created to brand these people as ‘grifters’ and profiteers while the people running the campaign sat on top of the largest pool of vaccine money in history.

The media (specifically NPR which got $4M in Nov. 2020, six months before a damning anti-vaccine story) and The White House podium were then used to remove 12 Americans from their health platforms simply for questioning and sharing information about vaccines.

Then, by 2024, the public had moved on, so Centers Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) planned for round tables to stir up sentiment against anti-vaxxers and set up ‘RFK-black ops‘ to look at RFK.

It’s important to remember here that in 2017 Epstein wrote to Gates proposing that philanthropists be organized “to decide a shadow governmental grants structure” to “blunt” the “bad pr risk.”

An orchestrated plan to ban and vilify anyone questioning vaccines has been in place and running for decades.

Think on that.

And now the medical establishment now has a framework for anyone who questions their doctor or asks about vaccines. Your resistance will be seen as a psychological problem to be managed.

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My Journey With Chronic Infections: Lyme & Chlamydia Pneumoniae

My Journey With Chronic Infections: The Hidden Causes Behind Years of Illness

Jill Carnahan, MDJill Carnahan, MD

Sept. 23, 2026

Dr. Carnahan interviews a patient on her journey of chronic illness that included Lyme disease and a chronic respiratory tract infection called Chlamydia pneumoniae, but were initially diagnosed as ‘horrible one after the next autoimmune diagnoses.’

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Coverage Isn’t Care: How the ACA Got Us Here, and Why More Government Won’t Get Us Out

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Coverage Isn’t Care: How the ACA Got Us Here, and Why More Government Won’t Get Us Out

The Affordable Care Act was built on one idea: get more people an insurance card, and care will follow. Coverage is a card. Care is a relationship.

Independent Medical Alliance

Nov. 3, 2026

Coverage isn't care

By Dr. Kat Lindley (originally published on X)

“If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.”

Millions of Americans heard that promise and believed it. Then the cancellation letters came. PolitiFact named it the Lie of the Year in 2013, and the trust it cost has never really come back.

Now a new message is going viral: let’s finish what we started and guarantee healthcare for every American. I understand why that speaks to people. I have sat across from patients who were scared, sick, and unsure how they would pay. Every American deserves good care. On that, we agree.

Where we disagree is on what got us here and what will get us out.

A card in your wallet is not a doctor

The Affordable Care Act was built on one idea: get more people an insurance card, and care will follow. More people did get cards. But care did not follow the way we were told it would.

Look at the newest Commonwealth Fund survey of working-age adults. Nearly half, 46%, were inadequately insured in 2026. 11% had no insurance. 12% had a gap in coverage during the year.

And here is the number I want everyone to sit with: 23% had insurance all year long and were still underinsured. They paid their premiums every month, and their deductibles and out-of-pocket costs were still so high compared to their income that their plan didn’t give them affordable access to care.

That is nearly 1 in 4 working-age adults doing everything they were told to do and still not able to afford to use what they paid for.

It gets harder to defend from there. Among people in ACA marketplace plans who were insured all year, half were underinsured. The law’s own flagship product leaves half of its customers unable to afford their care.

Half of working-age adults said they delayed or went without needed care because of cost in 2026, up from 46% in 2022. Nearly a third are paying off medical bills or medical debt over time.

The uninsured rate also climbed, from 8.9% in 2024 to 11.2% in 2026. The survey’s authors tie part of that to the expiration of the enhanced ACA subsidies. I won’t pretend otherwise. But think about what that tells us. More than a decade into the ACA, after years of massive taxpayer subsidies, coverage starts eroding the moment the money slows down, and the people who do have coverage still can’t afford to see their doctor.

That is not a system that needs to be finished. It is a system that needs to be rethought.

Who the system actually rewards

If patients are struggling and doctors are burning out, someone is doing well. Follow the money.

Consider “nonprofit” hospitals. Nonprofit is a tax status, not a business model. These hospitals pay no income tax and no property tax. In exchange, they are supposed to give back to their communities through charity care and community benefit.

But research published in the Journal of Marketing Research in 2020 found that nonprofit hospitals achieve higher output, higher prices, and higher profits than for-profit hospitals. They do it largely by expanding high-priced premium specialty services and running national advertising campaigns.

The tax break was meant to serve the community. Too often it buys new specialty wings and marketing aimed at the best-insured patients.

Meanwhile, the independent doctor down the street pays taxes, follows the same rules, and tries to compete. Every layer of regulation, reporting, and paperwork falls hardest on the small practice and the solo physician. Big systems can hire armies of administrators to handle it. Independent doctors can’t, so many sell out or close.

I know this from experience. I left the employed system in 2017 because I wanted to answer to my patients, not to a billing department. Every year I watch more colleagues get absorbed into large systems, and every year patients have fewer real choices.

More government involvement doesn’t reverse that. It speeds it up. The bigger and more complicated the rules, the more the biggest players win.

Waste, fraud, and the money that never reaches patients

When one payer controls the checkbook, the incentive is to pay quickly and ask questions later. For years, Medicare and Medicaid have worked on a “pay and chase” model: send the money out, then try to recover it after the fraud is discovered. By then, the money and the people who stole it are often long gone.

I’m glad to see CMS under Dr. Oz shifting toward stopping fraudulent payments before the money goes out. That is common sense, and it is overdue.

But it should also be a warning. Every dollar lost to fraud is a dollar that didn’t go to a disabled child, a nursing home resident, or a struggling mom. A single government payer for the whole country would be an enormous target for fraud.

What actually works

If the ACA got us into this mess, more government in our care won’t get us out. The answer is to put patients and their doctors back in charge. (See link for how to do this successfully)

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**Comment**

I know the desperation out there for healthcare coverage.

Desperation makes people do and believe stupid things.

A stupid thing to do would be to put control of healthcare into the singular hands of the government. Remember, this is the same government behind the debacles of Lymeland who refuse to treat Lyme/MSIDS seriously and have created and hidden behind fraudulent ‘guidelines’ which rule the land as an iron curtain.

They are why you can’t get diagnosed and treated.

They are behind fraudulent research and continue to line the pockets of the same people who have done nothing to help suffering patients.

Even in 2014 Willy Burgdorfer, the ‘discoverer’ of the causative agent of Lyme disease states Lyme disease is a ‘political’ disease and that ‘authorities’ refuse to acknowledge the patients who are sickened by it. He states the entire debacle needs a do over.

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Kay Hagan Tick Act Reauthorized: What It Means For Lyme Disease

November 3, 2026

https://www.globallymealliance.org/news/the-kay-hagan-tick-reauthorization-act-is-signed-into-law-what-this-means?

Kay Hagan Tick Act Reauthorized: What It Means for Lyme Disease

by Admin at Global Lyme Alliance on October 1, 2026

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On September 30, 2026, The Kay Hagan Tick Reauthorization Act was signed into law, extending federal funding for tick-borne diseases until 2030. Here’s what it means:

“With the Kay Hagan Tick Act now law, we have an important opportunity to build on the progress made in addressing Lyme and other tick-borne diseases,” says Jennifer Katritos, Chief Executive Officer of Global Lyme Alliance.

“Sustained federal investment in surveillance, research, and state and local public health efforts is critical to advancing the science and building the foundation for meaningful breakthroughs. Global Lyme Alliance is grateful to the bipartisan leaders who championed this legislation, and we stand ready to support these efforts while continuing to advance the research that can lead to earlier and more accurate diagnoses, better treatments, and ultimately, fewer people impacted by these diseases.”

Named for the former Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina, who died following complications from Powassan virus encephalitis, a rare tick-borne disease, the original Kay Hagan Tick Act was signed into law in 2019.

What will the Kay Hagan Tick Reauthorization Act do:
  • Reauthorize Regional Centers of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases for five years. These university-based hubs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of California, Davis, University of Florida, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison conduct research on ways to prevent tick and mosquito bites, or suppress populations of regionally important ticks and mosquitoes and their associated human disease pathogens. The centers also provide training for public health entomologists to serve as experts in vector-borne diseases, and spearheaded the creation of regional vector surveillance systems for centralized data tracking.
  • Reauthorize Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grants to state health departments to strengthen data collection and analysis, support early detection, improve treatment, and increase public education and partnerships addressing Lyme disease and other vector-borne diseases.
  • Continue implementing and updating the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Public Health Strategy to Prevent and Control Vector-Borne Diseases in People. These efforts have been key in expanding research into tick-borne diseases, improving testing and diagnostics, and coordinating efforts across the federal government.

Sources:

https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/signed-into-law-kay-hagan-tick-reauthorization-act-authored-by-senator-collins

https://www.cdc.gov/vector-borne-diseases/what-cdc-is-doing/centers-of-excellence-in-vector-borne-diseases.html

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**Comment**

Willy Burgdorfer said it correctly when he stated that the money continues to go to the same people with the same results: which is NOTHING.

Bingo.

Don’t be fooled into thinking this “Tick Act” will do anything for patients. It will only continue to line the pockets of sold out researchers who follow a narrative. The research done in Lymeland has always been extremely biased and protective of the very agencies setting all the ‘guidelines’ which hamstring doctors into following a faulty paradigm, with testing that misses 90% or more of cases and completely dismisses the sickest ones who will never test positive on a test that is a complete joke.

The only progress we have made is when independent researchers do the work. They are not beholden to government grants and agencies who superimpose a faulty agenda upon the populace, mainly that Lyme is is caused by one organism which is cured by one drug in a short period of time. Research and reality show otherwise. Time to call a spade a spade.

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