Rebuilding Connection & Advancing the Mission: Our Next Chapter Begins!
4/17/26
✨Foundation Update✨
During the last few weeks, we’ve met with our group leaders and other interested members and received feedback from many. We’re working on combining all our collective ideas into a plan of action for moving forward and will share all of it with you very soon. The main take-home points from the sessions that we held:
Our organization has much to be proud of. We mobilized quickly in response to the 2020 crisis; raised enormous amounts of money in record time; hired some of the best lawyers in the country; and filed dozens of lawsuits that have already made a huge difference. Here are just a few of our legal accomplishments:
We filed the first lawsuit challenging the legality of the lockdowns in Ohio only five months after Governor DeWine closed the bars, schools, small businesses, churches and almost everything else. We have reason to believe that this and other similar actions led to our state being one of the first to open back up.
We ended vaccine passports in New York City – quickly!
We ended vaccine passports in Boston – even quicker. It took only 5 hours and 11 minutes for Mayor Wu to decide that she did not want to fight us in court and rescind the mandate!
We were successful in helping dozens and dozens of health professionals who were disciplined and/or lost their professional licenses due COVID madness. Many licenses were restored, and many disciplinary actions and fines were rescinded.
Through our groups all over the country, we were able to help many health professionals get new jobs and escape work-related vaccine mandates. We filed lawsuits on behalf of many – we’ve won judgments in some and many are still moving through the courts.
We filed multiple lawsuits against EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric, and others who were involved in making SARS-CoV-2 and covering up their actions. Thanks, in part, to us EcoHealth is closed, and Peter Daszak is debarred from funding from the U.S. government. He continues to complain publicly that lawsuits are the reason for his misery. (We should feel proud!) Five of these cases are still pending.
Every week, our attorneys are in court litigating these and many other cases. Our wins help to make some of the people whole who were damaged by the COVID debacle, achieve economic justice for people who lost their incomes due to unlawful termination, and serve as a deterrent to future bad behavior in the future. It’s important that we finish this very important work that we started in 2020 and recognize that there is still so much more work to be done. We’ve already begun taking legal action to address the underlying issues in the medical system and public health that allowed the COVID debacle to take place and will have some important news for you soon.
There’s no question that our litigation is VERY important, but just as important are the connections we made with one another during the last several years. Let’s invite others to join us as we expand our efforts to include promotion of better diet and lifestyle habits, better health, community engagement, and a commitment to learn more about and work on things that are important to all of us, like local food, culture, small businesses, and more.
📰In the news…
Item #1: Always good to start with something positive!
Pfizer and BioNTech were forced to end a trial of their updated COVID-19 vaccine for healthy adults aged 50 to 64. The reason: the companies could not enroll enough participants to complete the trial.
Moderna, which is trying to recruit 30,000 volunteers for a COVID vaccine trial, is also having similar problems, according to inside sources. (1)
Apparently, more and more people are seeing the light! This continued awakening will definitely help our efforts as we move forward.
Item #2: People are lonely and they need connection, but there is some positivity to report here too!
According to a 2025 American Psychological Association study, over half of American adults feel isolated and “emotionally disconnected” from others, and 62% state that “societal division” is a major source of stress in their lives. Even worse, 69% of adults report needing more emotional support than they are receiving. (2) Young American men say that they are even more lonely than older adults and feel worse than their peers in most high-income countries. Over half (57%) say they are stressed daily, and 46% report feeling worried every day. (3)
There are many reasons for loneliness, but I think it’s fair to say that today’s loneliness epidemic is a direct result of the COVID debacle, which imposed social isolation by closing many of the places and ending many of the activities that used to bring people together. Tens of thousands of so-called “third spaces” like cafes, bars, bowling alleys, bookstores, and rec centers closed and never reopened, and many are still facing an uphill battle to stay in business. These places are important to the mental health of local residents, and also important for the community and the local economy. (Note: first and second places are homes and work-related locations).
What is the solution for this? Samuel J. Abrams, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute says “It is to recognize that community is not an abstraction. It requires physical settings where people can show up, linger, and build familiarity over time.” (4)
And this is where INFORMED™ Chapters can lead the way. We can invite people to our interesting discussions and gatherings. We can organize or help to plan and promote events that bring people together. We can start a movement – wherever we happen to live in our great country – that leads to more connection – and many other important goals like establishing the first national independent healthcare system. Here’s just one inspiring example of how this can work:
Maryam Banikarim decided that people in her community in New York City needed to start gathering again. She became inspired by a picture of people dining together in Egypt at a very long table. She posted it on her NextDoor app and asked “What if we did this?” She reports that all the comments were positive. Subsequently she started organizing events which eventually gathered thousands of people in her Chelsea neighborhood in New York. According to a study of what became known as Banakarim’s Longest Table, 87% of participants reported meeting new neighbors, 79% felt less lonely as a result of attending, and 82% said they were interested in joining other community activities. Maryam says that her initiative “…leads to everybody having a neighborhood that feels like home, where they belong, and where they trust, and where they can feel like they can act together. And I think we could all use a world like that.” (5)
In my humble opinion, The Wellness Forum Foundation’s growing roster of INFORMED™ Chapters is in the best position to gather people in the country. We were successful in attracting thousands of people to our meetings and events when they were forbidden and could not be advertised. Think what we can do now! And we are just getting started.
Excited about our future? Here’s how you can help. Donate – litigation costs money. Here’s the link: https://makeamericansfreeagain.com/donate/
Revive a chapter that stopped meeting or start a new one. Email pampopper@msn.com to discuss
Tell everyone you know about what we are doing! I promise we’ll have new and revised materials to support your efforts very soon!