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orasmis's review
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The Infodemic is a book about Covid-19 and how a selection of governments around the world reacted to it. Mainly it is about how different governments reacted by imposing censorship and a limitation of freedoms. It is about the perceived worldwide decline of freedom and democracy worldwide during the times of Covid.
I’m impressed and surprised by this book. I was worried that it would be a work of propaganda itself but in my opinion it is not. It presents a concise log of how multiple countries faced the spread of Covid and how they responded to the threat of it. It presents this information in an easy to absorb manner and is very well written. It covers both autocratic and democratic countries and shows the ways that they succeeded against and failed with their approach to containing the spread of the outbreak.
Overall I like the approach that this book has. It has a lot of information and presents it very well. It presents its case in a very clear manner and shows the reasoning that different countries may have had for their approaches to the pandemic. I highly recommend this for nonfiction readers and readers looking for more information on the history of the pandemic and on current events.
The Infodemic is a book about Covid-19 and how a selection of governments around the world reacted to it. Mainly it is about how different governments reacted by imposing censorship and a limitation of freedoms. It is about the perceived worldwide decline of freedom and democracy worldwide during the times of Covid.
I’m impressed and surprised by this book. I was worried that it would be a work of propaganda itself but in my opinion it is not. It presents a concise log of how multiple countries faced the spread of Covid and how they responded to the threat of it. It presents this information in an easy to absorb manner and is very well written. It covers both autocratic and democratic countries and shows the ways that they succeeded against and failed with their approach to containing the spread of the outbreak.
Overall I like the approach that this book has. It has a lot of information and presents it very well. It presents its case in a very clear manner and shows the reasoning that different countries may have had for their approaches to the pandemic. I highly recommend this for nonfiction readers and readers looking for more information on the history of the pandemic and on current events.
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