Source: Brownstone Institute
by Aaron Kheriaty
“In February 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a bulletin condemning online voices and public gatherings attacking such government Covid policies as mask and vaccine mandates. Those spreading ‘misinformation’ about the pandemic, DHS warned, were undermining ‘public trust in the U.S. government institutions’ and could be considered a ‘domestic threat actor’ or a ‘primary terrorism-related threat.’ How did government vigilance against lethal attacks like 9/11 culminate in the claim that critics of public health measures were terrorists? The bulletin ignored the possibility that one reason trust in our governing institutions had been undermined was not denunciations of our pandemic policies but the policies themselves, along with the government’s manipulative public messaging about them.” (06/23/25)