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Fear of a Microbial Planet: How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes Us Less Safe (English Edition) Kindle版
Fear of a Microbial Planet, a wonderfully accessible book on the Covid era published by Brownstone institute, offers desperately needed clarity and science on the organization and management of individual social life in the presence of pathogenic infection. It can be read as a definitive answer to expert arrogance, political overreach, and population panic.
For three years following the arrival of the virus that causes Covid, the dominant response from governments and the public has been to be afraid and stay far away through any means possible. This has further mutated into a population-wide germophobia that is actually being promoted by elite opinion.
Steve Templeton, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute and Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Indiana University School of Medicine - Terre Haute, argues that this response is primitive, unscientific, and ultimately contrary to individual and public health.
If a public health response is like an immune response, then consider this book as immunization against germophobia, politicized science, a self-defeating safety culture, and misplaced faith in experts. Dr. Templeton is our guide to helping us gain a new and more robust understanding of the relationship between the microbial kingdom and our own lives.
The pandemic forecasts in the United States were very grim. Experts were predicting that 60-70 percent of the population would ultimately be infected resulting in over 1.5 million deaths in just a few months. People on social media were in an absolute panic. Stories about empty shelves and runs on toilet paper were everywhere. Those who tried to refute these doomsday predictions were shouted down and eventually silenced.
And yet, the science on the virus was very clear. Disease severity was age-stratified. Extreme measures would not drive it away and would cause a tremendous amount of collateral damage. Even if the worse-case scenarios were true, it was extremely important that we take measures based on evidence.
But eventually, the cry to “do something” became overwhelming, and the costs no longer mattered. Trying to calm people with wisdom about infectious disease became nearly pointless. Germophobia swept through society and political culture.
Hardly anyone wanted to hear the truth that microbes are everywhere, and they cannot be avoided. There are an estimated 6x10^30 bacterial cells on Earth at any given time. By any standard, this is a huge amount of biomass, second only to plants, and exceeding that of all animals by more than 30-fold.
To live at peace with the microbial kingdom requires trained immune systems, as George Carlin said years ago. That means exposure and the protection of normal social functioning even under pandemic conditions with a new virus.
Many books have been and will be written about pandemic response mistakes, and that’s a good thing. There can’t possibly be enough reflection on what went wrong, otherwise we will be doomed to follow the same path, or an even worse one, next time. This book argues that the safety-at-all-costs culture will continue to result in counterproductive policies until it is challenged at its root.
How did people in our communities and around the world get to the point of hysteria over a pandemic with a clear age-stratified and comorbidity-amplified mortality? Why were young and healthy people with very little risk for disease and death treated as if they were a grave danger to others?
It was always pointless to try to stop much less eradicate this virus. We’ve evolved with pathogens and need to learn to live with them without imposing mass psychological, social, economic, and public-health damage.
Everyone who panicked to the point of meltdown needs this book as a corrective. And even if you did not, everyone knows someone who did, public-health officials above all else.
- 言語英語
- 発売日2023/4/11
- ファイルサイズ1606 KB
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- ASIN : B0C29RC8ZB
- 出版社 : Brownstone Institute (2023/4/11)
- 発売日 : 2023/4/11
- 言語 : 英語
- ファイルサイズ : 1606 KB
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- 本の長さ : 476ページ
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The book covers everything from microbes and germs, how our body works to fight off viruses, psychology of mysophobia, the political “war” during COVID-19, factual data from masking to social distancing, herd immunity, and so much more. Whether you are a “Maximizer”, “Minimizer”, or somewhere in-between, you will learn strictly the facts as Steve stays away from the politics and presents the cold hard evidence everyone deserves and needs to know. Steve’s unbiased look at the pandemic is a welcome surprise in the world we live in today.
As I read the book, I found myself continually asking “what does it mean to be human”. As humans we all get sick. That’s just part of life. There is no need to blame others for it. Our health doesn’t just stem from whether or not we have a virus, but rather a balance of our physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. When we live our lives in fear it’s impossible to maintain that balance. Humans also have a unique ability to question things and should never stop doing so. When our leaders tell us it’s safe to walk into a liquor store or get a tattoo, but that it’s too risky to meet a personal trainer outdoors, it’s time to use that brain and question what is going on. Fear of a Microbial Planet is brilliant as you continually self-reflect on your own health, values, morals, and knowledge. I will say it again, “this book should be required reading to try and ensure that history does NOT repeat itself.”
Basically, Dr. Templeton has written a book that you should read if you want to feel everything that happened during the pandemic resulted by decisions derived by well intentioned individuals simply making genuine mistakes.
Honestly, I was looking forward to this book, as the title and theory was interesting... however, the author briefly touched on the subject title... and failed to portray its relevance.
I could write more, but as I attempt to, I realize it would be wrong to give this book more time.
There is plenty of science here with respect to the immune system and microbes (they are everywhere, but it’s mostly ok) as well as a meticulously detailed accounting of the political and cultural response that occurred. As far as I can tell, it is completely unpolitical and lets the facts speak for themselves.
He writes as both a scientist as well as husband, father, and community member. One of most painful anecdotes concerned his church, where the elders revealed themselves to be far less than wise, and he and his family ended up leaving the congregation.
While the central reason for the panic that happened was an irrational fear of germs that enabled many other actors to behave poorly, he does not let anyone off the hook.
“Yet ultimately, when looking for someone to blame for the disastrous pandemic response, the first place we need to look is in the mirror”.
Too many people believed the CDC or politicians would keep them safe, rather than act in their own interests. Too many people uncritically consumed worst case media reports rather than using their own judgment, and then demanded all others stay away from them and wear a mask, especially children. And, almost everyone seemed to think a virus could be eradicated if only we tried hard enough. As this book shows, that would not only be impossible but disastrous.