ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT COVID-19
If there has been one event that has thus far overshadowed all others this year, it has to be the COVID-19 pandemic. With the loss of human life, the amount of personal anguish and suffering, the economic repercussions, the social upheaval it’s caused, and the relative newness to our generation of a pandemic and all it ensues, it well deserves the dark image it conjures.
But it also has another side. First, COVID-19, in my opinion wasn’t the “cause” of many of the horrid events we’re seeing. It is, again in my opinion, more like a match that lit the fuses of a number of waiting powder kegs, the biggest of which is the antiquated infrastructure of our government, politics, social media, internet, business, transportation, education, health care…in that sense, it can be regarded as a welcome wake up call — a shot across the bow so to speak — alerting us as a nation and world to the need to examine, update and replace the infrastructures we rely on every day.
It’s also the first in what many think will prove numerous waves of epidemics and pandemics. We are lucky this one wasn’t more lethal. Again, it’s a wake up call to all peoples and governments to think carefully about their public health infrastructures and fix them now.
In my previous man-love book, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) with William Maltese, U.S. President Brown flees the country with a trillion dollars in his back pocket, leaving America leaderless and facing an unprecendented economic crisis. President-Elect Jackson has no other choice but to turn to his trusty aides and lovers, Adelphous Tripler and Shawn Clarke, to save the day. No COVID-19 needed. Just pure human political hubris and greed. The results, however, are almost prophetic.
In the socio-political thriller sequel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020), NewAmerica, a shadow of its former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live. A look at a possible post-COVID-19 world? Perhaps, though imagined in response to needed infrastructure change, the results of which are staggering. Check out a possible tomorrow’s world. If you dare.
Oh, and while you’re at it, consider my other thriller, QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) written with multi-award-winning thriller writer A. G. Hayes in which Koski and Falk come up against what very well may prove to be their most complex and dangerous case yet: The Quantum Death Machine. For the first time, Koski and Falk must separate during a mission. Each faces mortal peril, while, at the same time, their smoldering relationship begins to heat up. The fifth in the riveting Koski and Falk Series and a peek at what could very well be tomorrow’s frontline news! So to become available as an audiobook read by Peter Pollock.
But it also has another side. First, COVID-19, in my opinion wasn’t the “cause” of many of the horrid events we’re seeing. It is, again in my opinion, more like a match that lit the fuses of a number of waiting powder kegs, the biggest of which is the antiquated infrastructure of our government, politics, social media, internet, business, transportation, education, health care…in that sense, it can be regarded as a welcome wake up call — a shot across the bow so to speak — alerting us as a nation and world to the need to examine, update and replace the infrastructures we rely on every day.
It’s also the first in what many think will prove numerous waves of epidemics and pandemics. We are lucky this one wasn’t more lethal. Again, it’s a wake up call to all peoples and governments to think carefully about their public health infrastructures and fix them now.
In my previous man-love book, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) with William Maltese, U.S. President Brown flees the country with a trillion dollars in his back pocket, leaving America leaderless and facing an unprecendented economic crisis. President-Elect Jackson has no other choice but to turn to his trusty aides and lovers, Adelphous Tripler and Shawn Clarke, to save the day. No COVID-19 needed. Just pure human political hubris and greed. The results, however, are almost prophetic.
In the socio-political thriller sequel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020), NewAmerica, a shadow of its former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live. A look at a possible post-COVID-19 world? Perhaps, though imagined in response to needed infrastructure change, the results of which are staggering. Check out a possible tomorrow’s world. If you dare.
Oh, and while you’re at it, consider my other thriller, QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) written with multi-award-winning thriller writer A. G. Hayes in which Koski and Falk come up against what very well may prove to be their most complex and dangerous case yet: The Quantum Death Machine. For the first time, Koski and Falk must separate during a mission. Each faces mortal peril, while, at the same time, their smoldering relationship begins to heat up. The fifth in the riveting Koski and Falk Series and a peek at what could very well be tomorrow’s frontline news! So to become available as an audiobook read by Peter Pollock.
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