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Freedom Is Our Birthright, Not Something That Can Be Granted

Freedom Is Our Birthright, Not Something That Can Be Granted
Thousands of people march to protest the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine mandate and to mark Canada Day in downtown Ottawa on July 1, 2022. Johnathan Ren/The Epoch Times
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The COVID-19 response has raised questions regarding freedom in Western societies that, a few years ago, we thought were settled. Is freedom something we are allowed or granted? Or is it something we are born with, which can therefore only be removed? What is the status, now or in the future, of a child born into slavery, or a child born into a camp in Xinjiang or North Korea, or a child born into a digitized, centrally managed society of some future Western dystopia?

David Bell
David Bell
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David Bell, senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), programme head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, Wash.
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