BAMBOOZLED by COVID19 - A Retrospective view of the Pandemic and its Novel Vaccines

Covid19 a novel coronavirus SARS-Cov2 emanating from Wuhan will go down in the annals of history as a watershed event that has shaken the core of human society. Few can claim being untouched by the dystopian lockdowns and disruption to normal life. This book presents rational insights into many aspects of the pandemic - the origin of the virus it’s pathogenicity the otiose variants enumeration and the testing methods (RT-PCR) which formed the basis for counting fatalities. The psychologically scarring deadly ‘second wave’ is especially relevant to Indian readers. A more technical dissection of the two new methods of mass vaccination - mRNA (Moderna/Pfizer) and adenoviral-vectored (AstraZeneca/Covishield/J&J) - censures mandatory requirements especially in the younger population hardly at risk from the virus in the absence of long-term safety data and increasing reports of serious adverse events. The odious ability of Big Pharma to influence the public health authorities as evident in the concurrent opioid epidemic in the US played a big role in the Orwellian censorship of reasonable skepticism. This has worryingly led to the rise of an anti-science brigade. This book hopes that challenging and refuting the irrational ineffectual and unscientific measures will be a small step in restoring faith in science and public health an imperative for a healthy and functioning society.