Fear of a Microbial Planet: How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes Us Less Safe
by Steve Templeton
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"Fear of a Microbial Planet, offers 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 show more 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"--Provided by publisher. show lessTags
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More substantive than Ian Miller's books, but hard to get into.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)If a public health response is like an immune response, then consider this book your immunization against germophobia, politicized science, a self-defeating safety culture, and misplaced faith in experts.
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- 362.1962414 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare People with physical illnesses Services to people with specific conditions Diseases Respiratory system Diseases of lungs Pneumonia Viral pneumonia, Covid-19
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