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jeremyanderberg's review
4.0
Not the most organized of Wright's books, but essential reading to get the scoop on COVID in a linear and non-real-time way.
bkish's review against another edition
5.0
This is an important book as all of us now have been affected by SARS 2 COV iD im multiple ways. WRight is a journalist and this is. Journalism
If you admire 45 President Trump this is Not your book and you will ris k your health to read it.
He begins in Wuhan which is. Where it began in 2019 not. In the animals market rathere in a lab. What chinese govt did w this is criminal and reprehensible acting as if all that matters is some public persona of CHina as pure and untouchable. Its a view as what in parallel was growing here of isolation and performance generated. It set back the rest of the world months w people, dying getting infected transmitting death.
Here Wright takes us reader thru the maze step by step and familiarizes us w people he met people he observed in this cast of characters and he brings us to the insurrectionist coup on january 6.
If you admire 45 President Trump this is Not your book and you will ris k your health to read it.
He begins in Wuhan which is. Where it began in 2019 not. In the animals market rathere in a lab. What chinese govt did w this is criminal and reprehensible acting as if all that matters is some public persona of CHina as pure and untouchable. Its a view as what in parallel was growing here of isolation and performance generated. It set back the rest of the world months w people, dying getting infected transmitting death.
Here Wright takes us reader thru the maze step by step and familiarizes us w people he met people he observed in this cast of characters and he brings us to the insurrectionist coup on january 6.
ericabo_louise's review against another edition
4.0
Know your bandwidth for this because it is obviously not easy breezy but it was superlatively informative and enraging and Jared Kushner should be in jail!
nakenyon's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.75
halfcentreader's review
3.0
Reading nonfiction is not generally what I enjoy... and I can't say I really enjoyed this chronicle of the Covid outbreak in 2019/20. By reading it though, I feel it accurately and historically portrays what was done well and not done well not only in America but around the world. I learned a few interesting things I had not been aware of but was also depressingly reminded of a time that has barely passed.. of the negative emotions and feelings that were both personal and national. Since Covid is still our time... this book just came to soon for me.