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Welcome to COVIDtopia.

 

A new Civilizational conundrum, shaped by the strange story of a Novel Virus.

 

Truth be told, our current COVIDtastrophe has never been about a “virus,” but about much bigger plans for Humanity.

 

How do we know?

 

Here are but three eye-opening examples.

 

1. Oddly, “global health partners” – the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), John Hopkins University, the Rockefeller Foundation etc. – have planned (“war gamed,” really) “COVID viral global pandemic” scenarios for decades. #Plandemic

 

2. Curiously, the US Congress introduced the US Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act on January 24, 2019, fully ONE YEAR before SARS CoV 2’s arrival on the world stage. (The so-called US CARES Act – Public Law No: 116-13 – passed March 27, 2020.

 

3. Strangely, the European Council, in collaboration with the organizations above, began planning for Orwellian “vaccine passports” years ago, developing a comprehensive “roll out” strategy by 2019.

 

Fourth and most revealingly, this same group of organizational actors is busy planning their next “pandemic.”

 

You can read their SPARS #Plandemic blueprints, complete with a helpful Table of Contents,  right here.

 

 

The list of COVID curiosities is lengthy, but let these four examples serve as illustrations as we begin our journey.

 

To repeat, this has never been about a “virus.”

 

The goal, rather, is COVIDtopia.

 

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In popular culture and historical imagination, “Utopia” has three meanings.

 

1. A place of ideal perfection, especially in laws, government, and social conditions.

 

2. An impractical scheme for social improvement.

 

3. An imaginary and indefinitely remote place.

 

All three meanings apply to this COVIDtopia we bewildered humans find ourselves inhabiting.

 

COVIDtopia, you ask? Whatever do you mean?

 

I mean the strange “disconnect” between Reality as commonly understood until 2020, and an imagined Viral Utopia that seems to have gripped the Human Psyche for a full year now.

 

I define COVIDtopia as a collectively imagined Viral Utopia, a Brave New World into which we are being ushered, a watershed moment in Human history marked by the swift and radical reorganization of all Human affairs around the existential Fear of a Virus.

 

Here’s a simple statement that captures the essence of COVIDtopia.

 

“Even one COVID death is one too many!”

 

I have read, heard, and seen this statement uttered over and over and over again for one year now.

 

This statement, of course, is nonsensical, in a nation of 330 million citizens, where an average of three million Humans died in 2020 (between 8,000 and 10,000 daily US deaths) of myriad causes, and new Humans were born – close to four million babies joined US in 2020 (roughly 11,000 daily births – the lowest birth rate since 1985).

 

Lest you think I don’t care about “the COVID killing Grandma,” I offer three nearly universally agreed-upon observations about Life and Death: 1) Every Life is sacred, 2) Death comes for us all, and 3) Life and Death are the only two certainties that define the complex shared Reality of Human existence.

 

“But 500,000 US humans died of COVID – an extremely contagious virus – in 2020!” you may be thinking, quoting the incessant drumbeat of daily death data that defines the 24/7 COVIDtopian MSM news cycle.

 

No. 500,000 US humans died with COVID, officially, in 2020.

 

Only 6% of these humans died exclusively of COVID, according to Center for Disease Control (CDC) data.

 

That’s 30,000 US humans whose lives were officially extinguished by COVID alone.

 

Not 500,000.

 

30,000.

 

Remembering that as many as 10,000 US Humans die every day, 30,000 US Humans dying exclusively of COVID suddenly seems rather trivial, at least in the ruthlessly objective language of statistics.

 

In fact, the CDC tells US that every year:

 

660,000 US Humans die from heart disease.

600,000 US Humans die from various cancers.

173,000 US Humans die from accidents (unintentional injuries).

150,000 US Humans die from strokes.

90,000 US Humans die from diabetes.

 

So, every year, 1.6 million US Humans die from these six causes alone.

 

If COVID is indeed a US “national public health emergency,” then COVID best get in line behind much more pressing public health emergencies, such as the six listed above.

 

Let’s bring it back home to Vermont’s Green Mountains.

 

One year into COVIDtopia, in a March 2021 open letter to my elected Vermont representatives, I made the following five observations:

 

1) The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 99.96% of all Humans who have contracted COVID are recovering or have recovered with no long-term negative effects.

2) In his book Underreported Truths About COVID-19, veteran New York Times journalist Alex Berenson notes that this 99.96% figure represents 999 of 1,000 Humans, statistically speaking.

 

3) As of March 2021, we have lost approximately 200 Vermonters to the virus or “complications from the virus” this past year. Who were they? Our most vulnerable Vermont populations, mostly the advanced elderly and those with 3.8 co-morbidities (on average – see CDC’s web site). Most all died with COVID, but not exclusively from COVID.

 

4) To put this 200 COVID death rate number in perspective, Vermont loses, on average, 1,000 Vermonters annually, killed by tobacco-related illnesses.

 

Every year. 1,000. Give or take.

 

5) COVIDtopia’s untold consequences to Vermont’s citizenry – in terms of un(der)employment, economic collapse, depression, anxiety, unpaid bills, housing displacement, alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide, family rifts, delayed medical procedures, etc. – are incalculable.

Three of our four representatives acknowledged receipt of my letter. One representative responded in a short email urging me to contact the Governor’s office, while another responded by insisting that “Vermont’s COVID rules must be followed,” failing to acknowledge the WHO and CDC’s own data presented in my letter.

 

Otherwise? Crickets.

 

Time for US to speak truths (plural) about COVID and the world it has wrought.

 

In ten truths, this book explores how COVIDtopia arrived, what COVIDtopia means for both US and our Planet, and why we must resist COVIDtopia at all costs.

 

Let us be clear.

 

COVIDtopia, shaped by the current “COVID Crisis” – is not about a “Virus.”

 

What’s at stake, rather, is the future of our Human species and indeed, the future of our beautiful Planet.

 

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I write COVIDtopia from Vermont’s Green Mountains, exactly one year into what the US mainstream news media (MSM) refer to as a “global pandemic.”

 

One year ago, I hiked to the top of a nearby 4,000+ foot peak called Camel’s Hump, surveying the snow-covered beauty of the Vermont landscape around me in the company of my 21-year-old daughter Anneka and a friend. The trail up proved icy, the wind chilly, but the view from the pinnacle – the grateful feeling of being alive after a few hours of exertion, punctuated by moments of laughter, meditation, and conversation – made the trek worth our time and labor. Returning home, we built a crackling fire in the wood stove, enjoyed hot mugs of tea, fired up the outdoor sauna, and enjoyed a quiet dinner with family.

 

The next day, our world here in Vermont began to shut down. The “COVID-19 global viral pandemic” had arrived in the Green Mountains.

 

On March 24, 2020, Vermont Republican governor Phil Scott issued an emergency order, suspending the Vermont Constitution by executive fiat and calling on all Vermonters to “Stay Home, Stay Safe.” We need two weeks, Scott told Vermonters, to “flatten the curve,” slowing the spread of this “novel corona virus” to allow Vermont hospitals and health clinics to best prepare.

 

“I want to be very clear about this: We need everyone to limit activities outside of the home and to practice social distancing at all times to slow the spread of this highly contagious and potentially deadly virus,” said Governor Phil Scott one year ago. “We all must do our part to slow the spread of COVID-19 to minimize infections – particularly for those who are elderly or have underlying chronic health conditions – and prevent it from overwhelming our healthcare facilities. The more Vermonters who take this seriously and stay home, the faster we can return to normal.” By spring 2020, hastily erected viral “field hospitals” sat unused, medical personnel furloughed, hospitals in Vermont as quiet as ghost towns.

 

One year later, Vermont Governor Phil Scott’s emergency order is still in place. While 200 Vermonters have died from this “novel corona virus” (most of them of advanced age in a few nursing homes with myriad co-morbidities) hundreds of thousands of Vermonters’ lives have been upended: massive un(der)employment, uncertainty, anxiety, stress, rising levels of opioid, alcohol, drug and child abuse, masked students in all Vermont’s public schools, colleges, and universities, and, most of all, Fear.

 

How did most Vermonters, indeed, most of US, come to accept COVIDtopia as acceptable?

 

Indeed, how did nearly the entire Planet find itself in COVIDtopia’s thrall?

 

COVIDtopia, a book I began researching the day Governor Scott imposed the lockdown, explores answers to these two questions.

 

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To this book’s subtitle – let’s define our terms.

 

Viral Tyranny.

 

“Tyranny” is an old term referring to “cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control,” often applied to abusive or excessive government power.

 

I coined this phrase after months of researching COVID data, and witnessing first-hand how government-imposed COVIDtopian viral policies – mandatory physical distancing, masking, economic lockdowns with no recompense, “PCR testing,” and now, perhaps, mandatory “vaccinations”- impacted citizens in Vermont, the US, and around the world.

 

If the use of the word “tyranny” seems like a stretch, just look into the eyes of the hundreds of thousands of Vermonters who have suffered under COVIDtopia.

 

Look into their eyes, and, if they will even meet your gaze, tell me what you see.

 

Health Freedom.

 

A phrase first coined during the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials, “health freedom” is a fundamental human right embedded in international law after the victorious Allies exposed the horrific medical war crimes sanctioned by the Nazi regime, grotesque experiments committed by Nazi doctors and supported by the German nation – at that time, the world’s most advanced country.

 

Central to health freedom is the legal concept of “informed consent,” which states that any potentially performed medical procedure on any patient must first be subjected to two tests, posed here in the form of two questions:

 

• Does the patient have a clear understanding of the medical procedure and potential consequences?

 

• Has the patient fully agreed (“consented”) to said medical procedure?

 

Here is the 1947 Nuremberg Code “informed consent” for “health freedom” language, verbatim.

 

“The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.

 

 This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved, as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.”

 

• 1947, Nuremberg Code

 

What many Humans don’t realize is that WHO-recommended and US/Vermont government-imposed COVID policies like physical distancing, mask wearing, PCR testing, and “vaccinations” are all medical procedures of one form or another: top-down state-mandated interventions that deeply impact human psychology, physiology, and spiritual well-being, imposed on US for a full year now without any consideration of or public dialogue about “health freedom” or “informed consent.”

More broadly, “freedom” isn’t merely an abstract concept. When we Humans feel and know we are  free, we experience all sorts of profound physiological changes. Our brain function increases and quickens, our endocrine levels optimize, our body’s cells awaken to a higher degree, our energy output rises, and our Mind and Spirit awaken to the possibilities of our Potential.

 

And without “freedom,” of course, the opposite is true. Our brain functions decrease. Our endocrine levels destabilize. Our moods swing, beyond our control. Our body’s cells go to sleep, our human energies go into hibernation, and our Mind and Spirit deaden.

 

Without health freedom, in short, we Humans cease to be fully Human.

 

Human Destiny.

 

Quick history. We sapiens emerged from the trees tens of millions of years ago, and, in collaborative competition with other hominids like the Neanderthal and the Denisovan, we have evolved into the planet’s most successful species. We humans, too, are the only species capable of flexible collaboration in large groups around shared stories, explains Israeli historian and futurist Yuval Noah Harari in his best-selling book Sapiens.

 

To wit: over the millennia, sapien inventions like hunting and gathering tools, spoken and written languages, fire, agriculture, harnessed energetic power (the 1^st Industrial Revolution), electricity (the 2^nd Industrial Revolution), computing, (the 3^rd Industrial Revolution) and the digital Internet merging with networked artificial intelligence (the 4^thIndustrial Revolution) have given us more mastery over our lives and our Planet.

 

Ironically, however, COVIDtopia, when treated as an unquestioned Official Narrative, leverages our most successful sapien impulses – the ability to collaborate flexibly in large groups around shared stories – against us, as we will see.

 

“Destiny” refers to the ability of both individual Humans and our species as a whole to co-creatively imagine our own Future, and then bring to bear all of our energies – spiritual, mental, psychological, and physical – in manifesting our imagined future, co-creating our Fate in real time.

 

Human destiny is an evolutionary promise that COVIDtopia renders impossible.

 

Planetary Techno-Fascism.

 

The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini famously defined “fascism” as the merger of state and corporate power, at the expenses of individual rights and democratic processes. Fascism is found on the Right in extreme Nationalist movements (think Nazism), and found on the Left in ambitious “one size fits all” Globalist projects (think Communism or the United Nations),  and is often disguised within any ideology or “ism” that imposes one-size-fits-all initiatives onto the beautiful diversity of Human experience.

 

Two examples.

 

Woke’ism: an “ism” that views Humans as little more than victims of a System of interlocking oppressions defined by a seemingly arbitrary handful of social categories (Race, Class, or Gender). In the “Woke” world, individuals are grouped into “tribes” by their visible physical characteristics (skin color or sexual organ differences), rather than considering each sovereign Human’s unique skills, attributes, and potentialities.

 

Safety’ism: an “ism” that prioritizes Safety (freedom from all risk) above all else within the Human experience. US elite liberal arts colleges’ obsession with Safety’ism – “safe spaces,” “micro aggressions,” “anti-bias hotlines,” and “trigger warnings” – capture this “ism” quite well.

 

The term “Techno,” meanwhile, refers to an ominous civilizational trend – that of rendering to Technocrats (so-called “experts”) more and more of our collective human experience. As a species, we are being herded like cattle into a planetary Age of Techno-Fascism. Lest this observation seem hyperbolic, consider that in the span of merely a year, COVIDtopia has emerged across the Planet as a techno-fascist force that goes by many names:

 

The Great Reset: with COVID as catalyst, the Globalist Digerati class declare we must suddenly and with great haste and little discussion reinvent Human civilization, fusing our Human neurophysiological and biological systems with digital technologies, creating a…

 

4^th Industrial Revolution: the intruding of artificial intelligence via digital networks into even the most intimate Human affairs, biohacking our minds and bodies, to engender a…

 

Transhumanist Technocracy: a world of sapien cyborgs (part Human / part Machine) collectively “managed” via powerful digital networks by “experts” for “our own good,” leading to a…

 

Singularity: the complete merger of Humans and Machines, which futurist Ray Kurzweil excitedly predicted would happen (back in his 2005 book) by mid 21^st century.

 

If the above words and phrases are unfamiliar to you, I suggest a bit of research may be in order. In the meantime, COVIDtopia will touch on them throughout our journey.

 

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Books are never written alone, but rather, through the collective efforts of bright and aware Humans doing good work in the world.

 

So, gratitude to the following.

 

Thanks to our Vermont Independent community of readers and contributors for their critical support; yak friends around the world for daily living and learning in the close company of a remarkably adaptable mammalian species (bos grunniens); the Our Geoengineering Age research team for demonstrating how interdisciplinary environmental research can work; and my university students for their friendship and hard work, and for enduring this COVID’addled civilizational moment with grit and grace.

 

Special thanks to four Vermonters without whose friendship and support I would be lost.

 

Ian Baldwin, for his unflagging comradery, abiding mentorship, and deep wisdom.

 

Pete Garritano, for his good grace, humble humor, and scientific dedication to weekly consulting the COVID Oracles, including ever-changing World Health Organization (WHO) and Center for Disease Control (CDC) web sites.

 

Andrew McClymont, for his wicked wit, entrepreneurial spirit, and unflagging optimism during our weekly F2F coffee chats and cold plunges in the Mad River.

 

Aimee Stephenson, for her courage in speaking out, her “can do” irreverence, and her willingness to share her deep understanding of science and medicine as a University of Vermont (UVM) trained PhD in microbiology.

 

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One final introductory note.

 

In the midst of any civilizational crisis, you can find three groups of Humans.

 

Those who create the Illusion, those who believe the Delusion, and those who clarify the Confusion.

 

I write this book with all three groups in mind.

 

My hope, of course, is that COVIDtopia will inspire you, dear reader, to destroy the Illusion, reject the Delusion, and clarify the Confusion.

 

Indeed, our Human destiny and the future of our beautiful Planet depends on it.