Publisher’s Note: Here at Vermont Independent, we rarely cross-post an article from another blog in its entirety, but Edward Curtin’s new assessment of our COVID-19 civilizational moment is perhaps one of the better overall summaries of our Human Situation to date. We’ve reprinted Edward Curtin’s whole essay below, in the event that it gets scrubbed / removed elsewhere.
Epistemologically speaking, we independent researchers have learned MUCH over the past 16 months – about US and Global political power, about media storytelling, about true science/the scientific method versus Scientism, about US public health and its corruption, and of course, about human nature (broadly defined). Curtin puts together what HE knows and does NOT know about our COVIDtastrophe quite elegantly here. Please consider visiting his site, signing up, for his e-newsletter and supporting his invaluable work. Thanks to fellow Vermonters for sending over this inspired and important essay. Courage, Team Human!
After fifteen months of assiduous reading, study, observation, and research, I have come to some conclusions about what is called COVID-19. I would like to emphasize that I have done this work obsessively since it seemed so important. I have consulted information and arguments across all media, corporate and alternative, academic, medical, books, etc. I have consulted with researchers around the world. I have read the websites of the CDC, the World Health Organization, and government and non-government health organizations. In other words, I have left no stone unturned, despite the overt or covert political leanings of the sources. I have done this as a sociologist and writer, not as a medical doctor, although many of my sources have been medical doctors and medical studies.
My succinct conclusions follow without links to sources since I am not trying to persuade anyone of anything but just stating for the public record what I have concluded. Life is short. I am going to say it now.
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