1st Edition
by Marc Siegel (Author)
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.
