The ‘pandemic’ started in early 2020 but things were already in motion in 2019, with at least one ‘think tank’ running a simulation scenario in October involving a new pandemic disease that would rapidly spread from a lab in a city in China. Perhaps synchronistically at nearly the same time I gave a paper at the Libertarian Scholars' Conference (King's College, Manhattan) on Informed Consent. Our essays begin with that paper, but reach back to cover the disturbing developments regarding vaccine mandates earlier that year. The following opinion pieces are divided into two sections: Pandemic and Freedom. Within each section they are mostly organized by date.