The U.S. Senate Stands Firm Against COVID

The U.S. Senate Stands Firm Against COVID

Peter Kopa, Prague, April 17, 2026

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Last month, the U.S. Senate issued a declaration for citizens to sign, aimed at completely preventing catastrophic mistakes related to COVID-19 in the future. The Senate warns that emergency situations do not suspend the Constitution or civil liberties. This resolution condemns the excesses committed during the COVID era and reaffirms constitutional guarantees in the face of any future public health crisis.

This decision by the U.S. Senate sheds light on the abuses committed and is a first step toward a return to the truth. This initiative confronts the grim possibility of yet another pandemic. All other countries would do well to take similar preventive measures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOu5Z083IM4

Organizations such as the Autism Action Network, Brownstone Institute, Children’s Health Defense, Health Freedom Defense Fund, Independent Medical Alliance, MAHA Institute, and Stand For Health Freedom cooperated on this initiative. All formally repudiate the most destructive policies of the COVID era and demand guarantees that they can never be repeated in the future.

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We quote the full text of the Resolution:

The COVID Justice Resolution

To affirm the enduring lessons of the COVID-19 response, repudiate certain emergency measures as incompatible with constitutional liberty, and establish binding principles for any future public health emergency.

Whereas the 2020–2023 COVID-19 pandemic caused the most widespread and prolonged suspension of civil liberties in U.S. history;

Whereas many measures adopted in the name of public health, both at the federal level and in most states, lacked sufficient evidence of effectiveness, were in some cases arbitrary, imposed a disproportionate burden on the poor and working classes, and violated the fundamental principles of limited government;

Whereas the Senate now judges, with the benefit of hindsight and after thorough reflection, that certain categories of intervention must never be repeated;

Therefore, it is Resolved that the Senate:

(1) Declares that the following measures, however well-intentioned they may have been at the time, constituted grave errors that must not be repeated in any future public health emergency:

(a) The prolonged closure of elementary, secondary, and higher education institutions for in-person instruction, which caused quantifiable and lasting harm to children’s educational performance, mental health, and social development, without producing a demonstrable reduction in community transmission beyond what would have been achieved through specific protections for vulnerable adults;

(b) The indefinite closure or capacity restrictions on private businesses deemed “non-essential” by executive order, including, among others, restaurants, gyms, hair salons, places of worship, and small retail stores;

(c) Universal mask mandates imposed by state, local, or federal authorities on the entire population (including children) without medical exemptions that respect at least bodily autonomy;

(d) Lockdown orders that kept healthy citizens confined to their homes for weeks or months, criminalizing normal outdoor activities, in addition to the brutal division of the working population between those deemed “essential” and those deemed “non-essential”;

(e) Restrictions on routine access to nursing homes, hospitals, and other medical services, including dentistry, under the pretext that they did not meet emergency requirements, leading to missed diagnoses and health complications for millions of people;

(f) The rejection, disregard, and even denial of access to known treatments for respiratory viruses, driven by government agencies, which became inaccessible even with a prescription;

(g) Eviction moratoriums issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that exceeded legal authority and undermined the contractual foundations of property rights;

(h) Vaccination mandates imposed directly or indirectly (through OSHA, CMS, the Department of Defense, or federal contractor regulations) on private-sector employees, healthcare workers, members of the Armed Forces, or students, as a condition of employment, education, or participation in civic life;

(i) The creation and enforcement of vaccination passports or systems of discrimination based on immunity status by any level of government or by private entities under government coercion;

(j) Sustained censorship, covert blocking, platform bans, or professional sanctions against doctors, scientists, or citizens who publicly questioned official public health guidelines, including good-faith debate regarding early treatment protocols, natural immunity, or the developmental status of new vaccines;

(k) The unprecedented transfer of official authority to executive agencies without an explicit mandate from Congress, resulting in the squandering of trillions of dollars under inadequate oversight;

(l) Hospital protocols dictated by government agencies, which violated the doctor-patient relationship and trampled on individual rights in medical treatment;

(2) Affirm that the constitutional rights enumerated in the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as the unenumerated rights retained by the people under the Ninth Amendment, do not become optional during a declared emergency;

(3) To establish as a permanent policy of the United States Senate the following principles to guide any response to a future emergency:

(a) Emergencies of limited duration: No declaration of a national or state public health emergency may exceed 30 days without explicit reauthorization by a vote of Congress or the relevant state legislature;

(b) Legislative primacy: No federal agency may impose sanctions, mandates, or restrictions on private conduct that affect the general population or the economy without express legal authorization enacted after the emergency has begun;

(c) Protection of minors: Elementary and secondary schools shall remain open for in-person instruction, unless the relevant state legislature specifically determines in writing that closure is the least restrictive means to prevent an imminent and overwhelming hospital collapse in that jurisdiction;

(d) Religious practice: Places of worship shall be classified as essential at all times and shall not be subject to numerical capacity limits or activity restrictions stricter than those applied to commercial establishments; religious freedom shall never again be infringed;

(e) Bodily autonomy: No American may be compelled, coerced, or subjected to adverse employment or educational consequences, nor may they be denied access to private businesses or their services, or to civic life, for refusing any medical intervention, including vaccination, during a public health emergency;

(f) Transparency and data: All models, datasets, and deliberations of advisory committees used to justify restrictions shall be published in real time, uncensored, except for legitimate national security reasons;

(g) Prohibition on Censorship: No federal official or agent may request, order, or encourage—including through pressure or funding of third parties—private communication platforms to remove, suppress, or label protected speech regarding pandemic policy, treatment options, or the safety and efficacy of vaccines;

(h) Compensation for expropriations: Any legitimate business required to close or operate at reduced capacity by government order shall be entitled to full and prompt compensation for lost revenue, based on fair market prices;

(i) Expiration of emergency powers: All emergency orders issued by executive agencies shall automatically expire 30 days after their issuance, unless expressly renewed by Congress or the relevant state legislature;

(4) Direct the Government Accountability Office to conduct annual audits of federal and state emergency preparedness plans to ensure compliance with the principles set forth herein;

(5) Urge the states to enact parallel legislation incorporating these same principles, and commit to cooperating with any state that does so;

(6) Express the Senate’s deep regret for the unnecessary suffering inflicted upon the American people—especially children, small business owners, isolated seniors in nursing homes, cancer patients denied routine screenings, and the millions of people who lost their livelihoods—by policies that prioritized uniformity of enforcement over proportionality, evidence, and human dignity.