I see that I am writing to you about more and less ruined, formerly free societies, these days.

I am seeing a new map of the world, that bears little relation to the tendentious, propagandistic Freedom. House's famous ranking of free and closed societies. The map of the globe as written in liberty, is wholly shifting.

I am seeing this via travel. Traveling abroad is new again for me. I had not left the US for all the five years since "lockdown", for security reasons; When I first began to be a "lockdown dissident" and then a "mandates" and "mrna injection" dissident, my husband, security expert Brian O'Shea, felt that I would be safer staying within the US. (He used to work with a security firm that, among other jobs, negotiated the release of hostages; believe it or not, if you are an American citizen/dissident, you still have more protections from security forces, or just from bad actors, doing dangerous things to you physically, if you are within the US, than if you are traveling beyond its borders.)