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ANALYSIS/OPINION: As the last days of 2020 dissipate, coronavirus lockdowns, quarantines and isolation are escalating. The year will surely be remembered as one when freedom faltered. As natural as the morning light is the yearning for freedom, but fear of disease is erecting sturdy barriers that thwart the inborn desire for autonomy. Trends that predate the pandemic signal that the new year will likely bring additional challenges in the struggle against forces that oppose the irrepressible impulse to be free. The Human Freedom Index (HFI), published last week by the Washington, D.C.-based Cato Institute and Vancouver, Canada’s Fraser Institute, portrays a world losing ground in the contest between liberty and oppression. Measuring personal and economic freedom in areas that include rule of law, security and safety, religion, and expression and information, the index manifests an unhealthy decline of personal freedom among 162 nations during the decade ending with 2018, the most

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