Here come the lockdowns and mask mandates… again.

You thought the COVID hysteria was over? Think again!

With elections just around the corner, it seems a new COVID variant is surging across the country…. at least according to the media.

In fact, an Atlanta-area college recently reinstated a mask mandate, as did a New York-based hospital.

It’s only a matter of time before Democrats in the legislature start calling for a statewide mask mandate in South Carolina. Republicans in the South Carolina Legislature must stand firm and not let another round of draconian mandates happen again. 

Why is it important to already begin the conversation regarding the push for potential mandates? Because what happened in the past matters for the future.   

The last time COVID was in the headlines, RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) and their Democrat allies:

• Shut down schools

• Forcefully closed restaurants, beaches, and boat ramps

• Mandated that all non-essential businesses shut their doors

• Issued “home or work” orders that limited your freedom of movement

• Required masks in public

• And did nothing when Joe Biden illegally mandated for Americans to take an experimental vaccine.

It happened once, and it can happen again.

You might think we're blowing this out of proportion. But politicians in both Columbia and Washington don’t care that their draconian response to COVID tossed the American economy into the gutter or might have cost you your job.

How do we know this? Earlier this year, Freedom Caucus member Josiah Magnuson offered an amendment to the "Permit Extension Joint Resolution of 2023" that stated “government overreach was a substantial contributing factor to the state of economic emergency” during COVID and that “greater freedom is a path to greater prosperity.”

The amendment was killed in the Republican-controlled State House.

If elected officials won’t recognize two (2) years after the fact that their policies negatively impacted our economy and wellbeing, what hope do we have that they won’t make the same mistake again?

During the COVID madness of 2020-2021, only a handful of brave conservatives in the South Carolina House of Representatives stood up against the shutdowns, mask mandates, and forced vaccines. Most of those individuals would go on to form the South Carolina Freedom Caucus in April of 2022.

That same year, the midterm elections saw 6 new Freedom Caucus members elected. Many of them got involved specifically because of the government’s response to COVID, and the disaster it had on their livelihoods. 

Tuesday, the SC House and Senate held a joint committee on pandemic preparedness. SCFC member and Chairman, Adam Morgan, was instrumental in bringing this committee together and was appointed to sit on it. During the hours long hearing, medical professionals and scientific researchers testified regarding the negative impacts the Covid-19 vaccine has had as well as the half-truths force-fed to Americans by the medical and the political establishment. One speaker, a prominent medical researcher and cancer specialist at the University of South Carolina, discussed his own research and tests he conducted on the vaccine which showed substances in the vaccine can lead to permanent DNA alteration and can result in various cancers in the vaccinated individual. Additionally, the same researcher testified that the vaccine could significantly alter the human genome. He reported all of his findings to the CDC. He never received a response.

Many other well-respected and credentialed experts reported similar findings and concerns. Others lambasted the unelected bureaucrats who staff most of the medical establishment for not following rules and regulations.

Winning this fight has become even more critical because of the “treaty” the WHO (World Health Organization) and Joe Biden are pushing down our throats. The “treaty” is projected to be fully implemented by May 2024 with a stroke of Biden’s pen, without ever receiving a constitutionally-required two-thirds vote in the U.S. Senate. This document would hand over power to the WHO to control America’s response to pandemics and health emergencies - giving authority over doctors, movement of persons, and administration of vaccinations not just to the federal government but to the international level at the U.N.

One thing is for certain: we must pass legislation this session to ensure draconian mandates and lockdowns never happen again. One example of a needed bill is SCFC member Josiah Magnuson’s H4246 which explicitly prohibits state agencies from complying with the WHO. The SC Freedom Caucus will fight continue the fight for medical freedom this session.

We hope the other Republicans in the House will fight alongside us. Unfortunately, members of the Freedom Caucus who are standing in the gap for your liberties are still being attacked by the same politicians that told you going to a park was too dangerous and that you were too dumb to decide for yourself if you should wear a mask or get a vaccine.

2020 could very well repeat itself in the coming months and years: mask mandates, vaccine passports, closed businesses, and dismantled election laws which allowed elections to be stolen in broad daylight. If we sit back and go along to get along, Covid-19 will become Covid-forever.

But that only happens if the powerful lobbyists and politicians in Columbia are successful in defeating Freedom Caucus members in Republican Primaries this June.

To prevent that from happening, the Freedom Caucus needs to have the resources to win.

Can you give $25, $50, $100, or more to ensure the next scam-demic is snuffed out before it starts?

For Liberty,

The SC Freedom Caucus

Future SCFC members Rep. Stewart Jones and Rep. Josiah Magnuson, joined by Rep. Jonathon Hill, led a press conference in April 2020 alongside South Carolina small business owners calling on Gov. McMaster to reopen the state. They delivered over 50,000 petitions and would continue to spearhead the battle against Covid-19 tyranny for the next two years.