Freedom is worth far more than gold and yet it has been systematically frittered away in exchange for mere trifles – naught but alloy, shiny baubles, by man who knows not what (s)he does. As a woman of a certain age, I have witnessed freedom being eroded over my lifetime. Governments and institutions have curtailed us all by an insidious creep which leaves most unable to perceive the tightening of the noose; but the noose is most definitely less comfortable to wear than thirty years ago. This is a travesty for humankind for, along with the exercising of freewill, freedom is our birth right. To be human is to be an autonomous being that is allowed to live life on their own terms whilst respecting the world and all who live upon it; but those that deem themselves superior to common man have decided to play God and deny us all our mind and freewill. Since March, much has changed with the pseudo pandemic conceived to cower and control. Today we are on the precipice …