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Essential addition to your COVID library

Revisado: 01-03-25

Bottom line up front: this book belongs on the same essential top-tier COVID reading shelf as The Real Anthony Fauci, and I highly recommend it.

This is primarily the story side of what was going on with Ivermectin and the FLCCC, as well as Dr. Kory’s own personal journey and worldview shift from 2020 to this book’s publication in 2023. The detailed medical evidence for the benefits and efficacy of Ivermectin are available for free on the FLCCC website (including a live meta-analysis of over 100 studies) and not re-detailed in this book, but going through this book will make the dry, technical side of reading about COVID therapies a lot more palatable, because it gives the reader a better, broader sense of the incredible ongoing efforts and personal sacrifices made by those doctors and others who assembled this information and continue to work to get it into as many hands as possible in the face of ongoing attacks (“opposition,” while accurate, is not a strong enough word). There is a lot of information found in this book that would be hard to locate otherwise, and because it is so readable (not to mention filled with human drama), it’s one of the easier access points for anyone just starting to open their eyes to what was going on during COVID.

After going through the book on audiobook (the production quality and reader are both excellent, by the way), I got the digital copy because it was worth it for reference and to revisit multiple sections.

- Philip Buckler, DDS; author of The Book on Masks

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Not a moment too soon.

Revisado: 08-25-24

Apart from the good reader and audio production quality, this book easily held my attention from start to finish in just a few days of listening. I found the section on the COVID masks and vaccines to be the most edifying, but every one of the sections (arranged topically and logically) were enjoyable and worth the time. I also greatly appreciated the conclusion's encouragement and call to action. We need as much journalism of the caliber as we can get.

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Essential reading for Americans especially

Revisado: 08-17-24

I am very happy to see this book became a bestseller. It was well-written, accessible, and hard to put down. Pacing and the reader(s) were excellent. If anything, its truth was more frightening than most fiction I've read, but it's encouraging to see this coming from a Supreme Court Justice.

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An entertaining social history.

Revisado: 07-18-24

I picked this up because I was mildly interested in the subject, and because I wanted something that wouldn't require a lot of attention. So I was pleasantly surprised that I found myself WANTING to pay attention. This book is an entertaining, highly readable account of British people living in India from the 18th to the 20th centuries. From prostitutes to politicians and everyone in between, it's not one of those dry social histories written for a PhD. It's a large collection of stories of individual people, organized topically, but with enough of a linear progression to make sense in a story/narrative way. If you want something written about the British in India with an axe to grind, this is not it, but if you want a very readable history of British individuals in India - how they got there, what work they did, how they lived, the relationships they formed, etc - then you've come to the right place.

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A Must-Read!

Revisado: 02-06-24

Tom Woods was among the first to see the COVID response for what it truly was, and his formidable intellectual and rhetorical opposition to the widespread psychological manipulation, governmental overreach, and public health tyranny was a major help to many of us trying to stay sane.

I got this book in kindle and audiobook formats, and also picked up and read his bonus chapters and bonus book “Collateral Damage.” The value:cost ratio for this book is easily more than double the average, and every bit of it was worth the time it took. The dozens of easily digestible charts and graphs, alone, make it worth the price of admission.

This is one of those must-read books that is important not just for understanding the response to COVID, but for psychologically inoculating oneself against the manipulations used so that nothing like it happens again. Even people who lived through it and saw all the insanity and tyranny firsthand for what it was will benefit from this book, because it provides such a broad, in-depth overview based on far more than a single person’s experience. Also, it’s dang entertaining, even though (or partially because) some parts called up memories that raised my blood pressure and set me on edge for fight or flight.

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Two hours well-spent

Revisado: 01-23-24

Ultimately, credit scores are a proxy for individual responsibility and lending risk. I didn’t expect to learn much from this book, but I was pleasantly surprised. It covers less ground than the second book, and spends more time on the author’s personal story, but it packs a very respectable amount of material and practical instructions into 89 pages of easy reading. Anyone with bad credit or just getting started in life (e.g. high school) will benefit from this explanation of what credit is, how it works, and why it’s important.

I picked these books up in a weird order. After listening to Book 2 on audiobook and finding it contained a good deal of potentially useful information, I picked up the kindle box set including Book 1 for future reference. Then it turned out that there’s an audiobook of Books 1 and 2 for the same price as the audiobook of Book 2. Doh! Oh well. Learn from my mistake and make sure you get the boxed set audiobook to get the most for your money/credits.

If I were a school board member, and this book came up for inclusion in the curriculum, I’d vote in favor of including it.

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A lot that I did not know

Revisado: 01-18-24

After going through this book in audiobook form and having it contain so much that I didn’t previously know, I picked it up in kindle format for easier future search/reference. It’s a 3.5-hour minimal-fluff course in a large number of basic avenues that people looking to start a business can pursue to build the credit (and hence, borrow the capital) they need to operate their new business without putting their personal credit on the line more than they have to. This is for readers who have already nailed down the productive skillset, work ethic, and “profitable business plan” parts of that equation.

It also contains some helpful nitty-gritty details like pointing you in the direction of some options to obtain a business address without renting office space. People with an MBA probably won’t find this very useful, but most other people will.

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4-hour motivation-autobiography

Revisado: 01-11-24

I went through this book in audiobook format, and spent too much mental effort wrestling with whether to give this book four or five stars. On the one hand, it felt a bit generic and self-congratulatory, but on the other hand, the author’s recounting of some of the more embarrassing episodes in his life are not the sort of thing one would include in a paean to personal ego, and he did a good job writing and then narrating a motivational audiobook in a second language (apparently one of five he speaks) before age 30. He has an engaging narration style, and he overcame multiple obstacles that would have stymied me personally. Even a dry list of so many achievements couldn’t help sounding a tad brag-y, but not listing those achievements would make people ask why they should be listening to him on this subject in the first place. So five stars it is.

The bottom line of the book is that if you have a concrete visualization of what success for you looks like, and put in the work (a LOT of hard work), you’ll get there (even if it’s not by the route you originally envisioned). The author has clearly read and internalized a LOT of self-help/motivational books. The skills, endurance, initiative, and good habits you will have to acquire to overcome obstacles will make you stronger on multiple levels. Not a bad way to spend four hours. For me, the autobiographical first three hours were the best. The last hour of detailed “to-do” easier-said-than-done advice were where most of the generic impression came from. As a final note, I imagine the author is extremely charismatic in person.

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Essential microbial perspective through COVID lens

Revisado: 01-05-24

Bottom line up front: I after going through this book in audiobook format, I picked it up on Kindle just so I could search, revisit, highlight, and re-read multiple parts. It was THAT good. An immunologist writes about COVID and the toxic underlying germophobic and safety culture that turned the response to COVID into such a disaster.

The discussions of Sweden, Florida and immune response tradeoffs, alone, make this book worth the price of admission. I found the mask-related section to be especially edifying, because I have personally read all the studies he discusses, and can vouch for his analysis. This book has earned a permanent place in my personal digital library of books on the COVIDcrisis.

The writing is astute, engaging and the audiobook production quality was excellent (though the pronunciation of a handful of medical terminology words was off, this did not detract from the overall quality). Its essential perspective about the complex and often mutually-beneficial relationship between humans and microbes – including infectious microbes – was a welcome dose of sanity after the mass psychosis of the COVIDcrisis. I wish more doctors and everyday citizens had shared his perspective on microbes and safety in general, as well as the core philosophy of individual liberty, and done a fraction of his research. The author supports his statements with careful citations to scientific sources (which is one of the reasons I picked up the book in kindle, to use as a convenient link to those papers he cites).

This book also gets 5 stars for its content, style, presentation, and structure. The audiobook production quality was good, though the narrator mispronounced a couple dozen names and medical terms.

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Worth the time even for non-parents

Revisado: 12-31-23

This book is specifically for parents who don’t want to take their anger (misdirected, excessive, or otherwise) out on their children. Who WOULDN’T want a crash course in that? I said it was worth the time even for non-parents because of the general applicability of the principles and practices the author lists, and because I think the specific parenting context of many of the examples is abstract enough that many readers who don’t have children (yet) will be able to get the point being made with enough relevance to make a personally applicable difference, but enough emotional distance to not resist the point being made.

I read (and became a fan of) Gary Chapman’s “Anger: Taming a Powerful Emotion” years ago, before meeting my future wife. I was not aware that by 2023 the sub-genre of anger management self-help books had become large enough to spawn decent-sized sub-sub-genres like anger management in the context of parenting. At the time of this review, I’m the father of a four-year-old and a 6th-month-old, and didn’t really feel any immediate read to read this book (which is NOT the same as claiming to have mastered this issue), but it hit my radar, there is plenty of parenting time remaining for it to become urgently relevant (and I’d rather be prepared BEFORE that happens), and that cover design just tugged at my heartstrings. I’m glad I picked it up. Bottom line: four hours well-spent on audiobook (excellent production quality throughout, by the way).

This is a book primarily about how to manage one’s OWN anger, not the anger of one’s child, and I think that is where the focus should be. Of course, children often internalize their methods of managing anger from the example of parents and siblings (or the experience of dealing with parents and siblings), so learning to manage one’s own anger in a healthy, constructive way has good spillover effects that way. Right off the bat, I appreciated that this wasn’t some unrealistic book about how to try to go through life in some perpetual state of serenity (which would have been off-putting in the extreme for a reader like me, because I regard that as unrealistic, and according to basic Christian theology, even the only perfect completely loving being in existence still experiences a great deal of anger on a routine basis when dealing with humanity). Vivian Foster’s affirmation of a healthy role for justified anger (handled and expressed constructively in a boundary-defending way à la Cloud and Townsend), coupled with her personal childhood experience, easily held my interest, and her detailed citations throughout the book to specific journal articles in the field of psychology (which I always appreciate), enhances this effect.

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