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The best way for me to cope with uncertainty, is to learn all I can. So reading a book about COVID by a s scientist and social scholar helped me understand how we got here and societies responses to this virus. What I learned is that people didn‘t become ignorant and behave badly because of it, humanity just hasn‘t grown from past mistakes. Denial is stronger. People behaved the same to pandemics since the BCE. 😔

I‘ve been following the science of COVID-19 since the pandemic started, so there isn‘t much in this #audiobook that‘s new to me, although it‘s good to have it compiled. I also like the way it‘s placed in historical and sociological context. The final chapter, How Plagues End, is particularly uplifting. Especially combined with today‘s news about Pfizer‘s vaccine. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/health/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-effective/index.ht...

Incredibly, many hospitals actually lost money or faced bankruptcy during the pandemic, despite being packed with patients, and despite providing a critical lifesaving service to our nation, because reimbursement for caring for seriously ill people with infection is less than reimbursement for elective procedures for trivial problems.

While it did feel way too soon for a book about COVID-19, I did learn a lot about viruses and pandemics from this book. It wasn‘t all gloom and doom either which I appreciated. #netgalley