Commentary Freedom was something we in the West took for granted as an inalienable right, until COVID came along. Now it is a gift that our governments can “giveth and taketh away.” Having previously enforced three lockdowns and imposed heavy fines on those who flouted the rules, Prime Minister Boris Johnson granted UK citizens the chance to get their lives back on July 19, which he named “Freedom Day.” But, after just 134 days, Nov. 30 became “End-of-Freedom Day,” at least from wearing face masks, and Brits are back to breathing in copious amounts of their own CO2. How ironic that just a few weeks ago, at COP26 in Glasgow, the prime minister warned of the dangers this gas poses to the environment but is now forcing us to inhale it—again. Johnson said at a Downing Street press conference: “I know the frustration that we all feel with this Omicron …