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My name is Patrice Peterson, and I'm the president of the First Freedom Foundation. This is me after midnight on a Sunday. Because you didn't provide any notice for this hearing. The scope of your question is quite narrow. But the scope of this treaty is extremely broad. So if you can use the term infodemics, I am going to speak about pandemics of arbitrary detention, pandemics of censorship, and pandemics of social isolation. My husband and I didn't mind staying in because we were trying to conceive, but we should have been free to choose whether or not to send my stepdaughter to school, attend church, and our friends funerals. The World Health Organization's own constitution defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease. So if you want to prevent the next pandemic of human rights violations, stop prioritizing disease over every other aspect of life, stop providing cover for dictators, and stop stealing power from the people it belongs to,