Alex Posoukh
ASIN: B08FGB2W19
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 192
Our world stumbled into the new year with a conspicuous heading of “2020” exhibiting the same mindless purposefulness as any other year. The WHO announced the pandemic and the world froze. This was to be the first pandemic played live on social media. The messages of panic and doom amplified ten-, hundred-, thousand- and million-fold. Unprepared, the governments lurched into the unknown. Collateral damage was just an afterthought in the all-consuming struggle against one disease, which, while deadly for some, constituted at most 2% of all deaths worldwide. Was this the best strategy to counter the threat? This question will linger over humanity for decades to come while a Stanford University group has estimated that years of life lost from Covid-19 in the US will be dwarfed by years of life lost from lockdowns by a factor of 10!