COVIDsteria: Author's Note
COVIDsteria: Author's Note
Excerpt from "COVIDsteria: An Oral History of America's Great Reset" - see https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/covidsteria-table-of-contents
Allow me to further address for my readers some specific criticisms or concerns brought up by my publishers upon reading the first draft of this oral history:
“Oral histories like yours are hard to verify through written primary or secondary sources. How do we know who is telling the truth and who is not?”
Unfortunately and during the chaos of the Great Die-Off, the purges, and the COVID Spring, many records and written sources were lost or purposely destroyed or altered. At the end of my interviews, I have done my best to provide some sourced endnotes to back up what interviewees had told me in my interviews. Readers should also refer to the FURTHER READING section at the end of this oral history for a list of all references…
“Some of your interviews or interviewees are long-winded, include extraneous details that need to be edited for clarity or have their grammar corrected, and they make statements that offend people or use offensive words. You also appeared to have lost control of at least one interview – the one with anti-swabbing activist Ann Lamia…”
I do not claim to be Tolstoy. Selective editing for “clarity” or “brevity” is an old media trick. I do not want to lose the context of any interviews or what the interviewee meant by editing their statements - even the offensive ones…
“Some of those you interviewed come across as having deep personal grudges against your other interviewees and especially against members of the media. For example, two of your interviewees made serious accusations against Carl O’Vanity, the former Coyote News host of “The Howl!” And every time someone mentioned Fredo Ratto from the Ostrich News Network (ONN), they used derogatory words like ‘stupid,’ ‘psycho,’ ‘liar,’ or ‘clown’ to describe him...”
Everyone now hates the media. I recorded what I was told in every interview by every interviewee…
“Other than to ask questions, you make almost no attempt to speculate, insert yourself into the story, tell us your opinion, or talk about yourself much at all. It is almost as if you are trying to be invisible...”
Speculating or inserting yourself or your opinion into the story was a bad habit the media practiced before the Great Reset. The readers of this oral history are not interested in my opinion or thoughts beyond asking questions that a good interviewer is supposed to ask...1
"Readers, especially Millennial ones, want endless amounts of violence, blood, gore, and sex in the books they read. There is hardly any of that in your book..."
My book is an oral history of the COVIDsteria years - not a horror or zombie novel geared only for Millennials!
“Are you a scientist, medical doctor, or an expert of some kind?”
I am neither a scientist nor a medical doctor or expert. I am just a citizen journalist (CJ). Unlike members of the legacy media, I don’t pretend to have or fully understand all the facts or answers…
“What is your agenda with this book?”
I have no personal agenda beyond providing my readers with an oral history of the events leading to America’s Great Reset. I can only hope that my readers will start to think for themselves about some of the topics covered in my book rather than rely on what the government, media, social media, or so-called experts tell them…
Crichton, Michael (April 26, 2002). "Why Speculate? A Talk by Michael Crichton." International Leadership Forum La Jolla. (Available on AmericanDigest.com - Archived 27 Dec 2005)