I have never been “canceled,” but that may be about to change. Not because of any unsubstantiated claims that I am about to advance, but because of whose book I am reviewing. That would be former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, who’s been removed from various social media venues. At least I never joined the “Twitter-verse” or Instagram, so I won’t miss them. Fortunately, Regnery Publishing has given Berenson a forum, publishing “Pandemia,” a well-researched, mostly measured, often entertaining book that questions the orthodoxy, however shifting and morphing, of anti-COVID policies, as presented by our “public health mandarins,” as he describes them. As our “pandemic epoch” crests past the two-year mark, nearly everyone has gotten something important wrong about this terrible, Wuhan-spawned virus, its genesis, impact, potential containment, and treatment. That includes public health officials, elected politicians, scientists, appointees, journalists, news consumers like me, and, of course, the Chinese …
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