{"product_id":"gone-viral-how-covid-drove-the-world-insane-justin-hart-2022-pandemic-politics","title":"Gone Viral How Covid Drove the World Insane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eData and marketing consultant and statistical sage to presidential candidates, governors, businesses, and the real powers-that-be, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eepidemiologists\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Justin Hart catalogs in a terrifying-but-sprightly manner the folly and psychosis produced by the pandemic and diagnoses the societal destruction that the massive overresponse to the COVID virus has wreaked, as well as what can be done to stop the madness and bring the world back to a modicum of rationality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWORST. DISEASE. EVER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomeone broke America. In this nightmare, neighbors have turned into agoraphobes, teachers fear their students, children are muzzled, citizens are censored, dystopian fictions have become reality, and unelected officials are creating a biometric police state. Oh wait. It’s not a nightmare. It’s our daily lives!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn truth, much of this insanity didn’t \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003estart\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with the coronavirus pandemic (it was already latent in big government and big corporations) and it won’t end there. COVID-19’s greatest threat turned out to be . . . mental. All we had to fear was fear itself—and boy did some of us fear! The very idea of the virus weakened the immune system of America and revealed a decaying underbelly of confusion, panic, unease, and cowardice few of the strong ones suspected existed. What a horrible wake-up call!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a spate of anxious dread and gleeful power-grabbing, our health overlords threw away the pandemic response handbook and tried—beyond all reason—to protect, well, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eeveryone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. From massive over-testing to universal retail plexiglass to stay-at-home orders to stay-away-from-school orders to masking mandates to vaccine mandates to some of the worst restrictions on civil liberties in American history, this is an epic story that poses big questions about America’s future as a free society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd the odd thing is, as Justin Hart shows, the actual disease was, as pandemics go, not that threatening; most people were at minimal risk. What \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e really scary is the total overreaction of half the country, many governments, that lost all sense of perspective. Hart offers a hopeful prescription on how we might face the madness down and claw our way back to sanity!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pearl Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45498248659141,"sku":"OFG31025388","price":45.97,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/7660\/8453\/files\/s-l1600_dedceb7a-575a-4630-aa39-50e606f9f343.webp?v=1769146894","url":"https:\/\/pearlpress.com.au\/products\/gone-viral-how-covid-drove-the-world-insane-justin-hart-2022-pandemic-politics","provider":"Pearl Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}