Separating FACT from FICTION in the COVID-19 Epidemic
People are afraid. COVID-19 has upended our lives as it poses new
medical dangers, economic suffering and grave uncertainty about the
world around us. The collateral damage is enormous, but politics invade
perception. There are so many unknowns. Does a treatment work? Is a
vaccine coming? How likely are you to catch COVID and how can you best
protect yourself and your family? What are the real risks and what is
hysteria? Where are our fear leaders? What are their agendas?
From Fox News Medical Contributor and the author of False Alarm
(Wiley, 2008) comes COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of
Science by Marc Siegel, M.D. This shocking exposé of the facts as the
media covers the national pandemic news and spread of the invisible
virus reinforces the notion that we must arm ourselves against fear
tactics that limit our abilities to safely make decisions and protect
our families in a world of uncertainty.
Life for citizens of the developed world before the pandemic was safer,
easier, and healthier than for any other people in history thanks to
modern medicine, science, technology, and intelligence--but COVID-19 has
stolen that security and our nation's peace of mind. Now there is a
pandemic virus, as well as a crippling epidemic of fear sweeping
America. Why? The answer, according to nationally renowned health
commentator Dr. Marc Siegel, is that we already lived in an artificially
created culture of fear that was just waiting to be unleashed. In
COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science, Siegel
identifies three major catalysts of the culture of fear: government, the
media, and our own psyche. With fascinating, blow-by-blow analyses of
the most sensational false alarms of the past few years, compounded now
by the worst contagion of our lifetimes, he shows how fear mongers
manipulate our most primitive instincts--often without our even
realizing it. COVID shows us how to look behind the hype and hysteria,
inoculate ourselves against these crippling fear tactics, and develop
the emotional and intellectual skills needed to take back our lives,
even as we battle the pandemic itself.
