Author’s note: Last week, Sen. Ron Johnson (R. Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, released a majority staff interim report titled “Failure to Warn: How Federal Health Agencies Downplayed the Risk of Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Following COVID-19 Vaccination.” The report focuses on government records obtained by Sen. Johnson that “contain evidence of the Biden administration’s efforts to downplay and delay warning the public about the risks of myocarditis [a type of heart inflammation] associated with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.”

To those who believe that our government exists to serve and protect our best interests, the report’s cited evidence and conclusions may be shocking. But to those of us who have followed the government’s response to the COVID pandemic, the report contains no surprises.

What follows is the first in a multipart analysis of how the federal government, the legacy media, and the pharmaceutical industry responded to the spread of COVID.

The COVID pandemic was and remains one of the largest involuntary wealth transfers in history. Which is why, in trying to get to the bottom of what was done in the name of saving us from the ravages of the virus, it is best to “follow the money.” For in the law, as in life, the money trail will inevitably lead to the truth.

Recall that as the COVID virus spread throughout our panicked nation, our government and its associated medical authorities instructed us to shelter in place. (RELATED: Dr. Fauci Doubles Down)

“15 days to flatten the curve” of infections turned into a total lockdown of society that lasted for seemingly endless months. For the first time in history, an entire population was quarantined to supposedly prevent the spread of disease, as opposed to all previous epidemics and pandemics, where only the sick were kept isolated.