Pandemia By Alex Berenson PDF

Edition	International Edition
ISBN	1684512484, 978-1684512485
Posted on	November 30, 2021
Format	pdf
Page Count	464 pages
Author	Alex Berenson

Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government Summary

Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives The most important fact about the coronavirus pandemic that turned the world upside down in 2020 is that our response to it has been an epic overreaction driven by a disastrous confluence of public and private interests—all of them purporting to “follow the science.”

Since the lockdowns began, millions of Americans have relied on the reporting of Alex Berenson. Exposing the hysteria and manipulation behind the worst failure of public policy since World War I, this clear-eyed journalist has been a critical source of reason and truth.

The product of relentless investigation and research, Pandemia explains how an illness that many people will never even know had become the occasion for economically ruinous lockdowns and the suppression of personal freedom on a previously unimaginable scale. Dispassionate, factual, and untainted by any agenda other than telling the truth, this is the account that pandemic-weary Americans desperately need.

About the Author

Alex Berenson covered the drug industry and financial fraud as a reporter for the New York Times. He is the author of Tell Your Children: The Truth about Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence, an Edgar Award-winning writer of bestselling thrillers, and a freelance journalist. A graduate of Yale University, he lives with his family in New York and publishes (uncensored) at alexberenson.substack.com.

Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government Introduction

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Welcome to Pandemia

t the beginning, the very beginning, the hide-in-the-basement, stock up-on-bottled-water, shut-down-the-world-the-plague-is-here panic made sense. Maybe.

But within a few weeks, even as the United States and Europe had just begun lockdowns, anyone paying attention could see the cure was worse than the disease. In our desperation to control Covid-19, we had done more damage to ourselves and the world than the virus ever could.

By then, though, it was already too late. This is the true story of how media hysteria, political partisanship,
overreliance on unproven technology, and scientific illiteracy brought the United States and the world to the brink of breakdown. The true story of how we trashed civil liberties we had treasured for generations. How we denied school to our children and destroyed small businesses.The true story of how we locked down and hid our faces from one another on the thinnest possible evidence. Of how a public health emergency

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became big business overnight, as governments spent trillions of dollars to fight the coronavirus—and unnecessary lockdowns destroyed small businesses, hugely enriched giant corporations, and forced people off paid employment onto government checks. How we spent a year hiding the risks and overestimating the benefits of vaccines based on radical new biotechnology. And how we then tried to force the shots on tens of millions of unwilling Americans—
while censoring those who raised questions about them.

All in response to a virus much less dangerous than the Spanish flu, much less Ebola. A virus that is less dangerous to healthy children and young adults than influenza. A virus that does most of its damage to people at or very near the end of their lives. A virus that killed slightly more people worldwide than diarrhea or Alzheimer’s disease in 2020.

This is the true story many of you have never heard not because I have a magic source at the Centers for Disease
Control passing me thumb drives with hidden information. The facts that I and a handful of other journalists and “skeptics” have reported since March 2020 are readily available in government documents and hospital records and scientific papers.No, the facts you’re about to read aren’t secrets. The secret is in the perspective.

For the last two years, I have tried to approach Covid-19 and the vaccines for it as I do every story I write as a reporter—looking at the evidence with an open mind and evaluating risks realistically. I have tried to compare lockdowns and other Covid policies to previous consensus views on the right way to manage epidemics.

Unfortunately, the media, especially the American media, committed early on to portraying the coronavirus as far riskier than it was and the vaccines as safer. Elite outlets like the New York Times went out of their way to foment panic and ignore positive news. Throughout 2020, many scientific studies offered reassuring data, especially the low risks Sars-Cov-2 posed to kids and young adults and their safety in schools. Practically everything pointed the same way.

Meanwhile, the models that had predicted apocalyptic outcomes proved wrong. Aside from a few bad days in New York City in March and April 2020, American hospitals were never close to being overrun. In fact, they were so empty in the spring of 2020 that many laid-off workers. Even in New York, the field hospitals and medical ships went largely unused.

But no one seemed to notice, much less care. Instead, the Times, CNN, and the rest fixated on a single number, the
count of Americans who had (reportedly) died from the coronavirus. Cable networks offered real-time tallies.

Pandemia Contents Table :

• 1 Welcome to Pandemia 1
• 2 Happy New Year 11
• 3 In the Beginning 17
• 4 All the Wrong Lessons 25
• 5 Globetrotting 33
• 6 Fifteen Days 41
• 7 Following the Science 57
• 8 The Star of New York 69
• 9 Twisting the Kaleidoscope 85
• 10 My Father and Me 95
• 11 Locked Down 105
• 12 The Perfect Storm 117
• 13 How Deadly? 137
• 14 Hitting Bottom 151
• 15 Apocalypse Not 157
• 16 Musk, Bezos, and Me 161
• 17 Attention Citizens! 171
• 18 Masking, Unmasked 181
• 19 Another Brick in the Wall 197
• 20 Another Brick in the Wall (College Remix) 213 21 Deaths of
• Despair 221
• 22 Sunbelt Spike 227
• 23 The Forever Lockdowners 237
• 24 This Is Only a Test 247
• 25 Long, Long Covid 259
• 26 Herd Immunity 273
• 27 Trump 283
• 28 A House Divided 291
• 29 Here We Go Again 299
• 30 Free at Last 307
• 31 The Excerpts 311
• 32 Bad News 319
• 33 Truth Leaks Out 333
• 34 Dodging Bullets 347
• 35 In Conclusion: Our Own Shadows 375
• Acknowledgments 383
• Notes 385

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