"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.

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.