Rob Wallace: Skewering Scientism & The Necessity Of The People's CDC
Channel: Last Born in the Wilderness Podcast
Date: 2023-03-17

This is a segment of episode 341 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Fault In Our SARS: Scientism, The People's CDC, & The Weight Of Virus Origin Stories w/ Rob Wallace.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/rob-wallace-2

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Evolutionary epidemiologist and author Rob Wallace returns to the podcast to discuss his new collection, ‘The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era,’ published through Monthly Review. 

This discussion is long, but certainly worth a listen. Entering year four of the pandemic, Rob Wallace has diligently, and extensively, written two books worth of essays on the various facets of the SARS-2 outbreak, many of which are examined in this interview. Rob skewers the Biden administration’s political, institutional, and rhetorical approach to the BSL-3 [Biosafety Level 3] pathogen’s burn through the population, picking apart the scientism, employed by both the political elite and their media lackeys to rationalize and normalize the mass death and disability of millions. 

Considering the dystopian realism the parasitic capitalist class is bringing to bear, what does collective care and radical organizing look like in this time? There are numerous manifestations, but one worthy of note is the People’s CDC, “a coalition of public health practitioners, scientists, healthcare workers, educators, advocates and people from all walks of life working to reduce the harmful impacts of COVID-19.” Wallace, in his capacities as a trained evolutionary epidemiologist, is the public face and voice of COVID This Week, a freely available, weekly released video series that coalesces pandemic data, medical research, and public health policy analyses, published on the organization’s website and YouTube channel. I ask Wallace how this collective endeavor began, why it exists in the first place, its strengths and weaknesses, and its growing and continued relevance in our current moment.

Rob Wallace is an agroecologist, economic geographer and evolutionary epidemiologist at the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps in St Paul. He is the author of ‘Big Farms Make Big Flu’; ‘Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19’; and ‘The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era.’ He has consulted for the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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