This book is about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human society. The current global pandemic has thrown a diverse set of entwined social, psychological, and economic disruptive impacts of human suffering on societies, groups, and individuals due to the flow on effects of not only the disease itself but massive dislocations of the everyday routines of life driven by mandated restrictions imposed by national governments. This intersecting set of experiences has evoked considerable human distress particularly in the fields of employment, education, healthcare work, and bereavement rituals. This text reviews, from existing knowledge and the research emanating in the last two years from around the world, the issues and problems faced by people and their governments. -- from the Publisher.

Definitions and Background Issues -- A Pandemonium of Pandemics and Epidemics -- Impacts of Fake News and Conspiracy Theory -- Following Doctors’ Orders: Persuasive Communication Delivery -- Impacts on the World of Work -- Isolation, Group Identity and Community -- Impacts on Students, Teachers and Education Delivery -- Personal Pandemonium: Stress and Mental Health -- Managing Grief and Death -- An Ethical Dilemma: Freedom Versus Authority -- The Rush to Publish Research on the Pandemic.