The book grew out of Gabrielle Bauer’s deep concerns about the pandemic lockdowns, mandates, and “Covid culture”. Remember the early days, told to “follow the science”?
Ms. Bauer wondered: “Why are only scientists being consulted? Where are the mental health experts to tell us how social isolation will affect our most vulnerable, both young and old? Where are the economists to insist on a cost-benefit analysis? Where are the ethicists to weigh in on the appropriate balance between risk avoidance and personal autonomy?”
These perspectives, so often missing in the Covid discourse, carry no less weight than the epidemiologic one.