Welcome to pandemia -- Happy new year -- In the beginning -- All the wrong lessons -- Globetrotting -- Fifteen days -- Following the science -- The star of New York -- Twisting the kaleidoscope -- My father and me -- Locked down -- The perfect storm -- How deadly? -- Hitting bottom -- Apocalypse not -- Musk, Bezos, and me -- Attention citizens! -- Masking, unmasked -- Another brick in the wall -- Another brick in the wall (college remix) -- Deaths of despair -- Sunbelt spike -- The forever lockdowners -- This is only a test -- Long, long Covid -- Herd immunity -- Trump -- A house divided -- Here we go again -- Free at last -- The excerpts -- Bad news -- Truth leaks out -- Dodging bullets -- In conclusion: Our own shadows

"Pandemia explains how an illness that many people will never even know they had became the occasion for economically ruinous lockdowns and the suppression of personal freedom on a previously unimaginable scale." -- Provided by the publisher