Edited by Steven Pelech and Christopher A. Shaw

The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most globally traumatic event since World War II. The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on health and welfare were significant, but not as devastating as the societal upheaval created by the counter-responses taken by governments and NGOs.

COVID-19 Pandemonium is the companion follow-up book to Down the COVID-19 Rabbit Hole: Independent Scientists and Physicians Unmask the Pandemic, which focused on the “science” of virus, the disease, prevention and treatment. This latter volume documented the ineffectiveness of masking, issues with the production, efficacy and safety of COVID-19 genetic vaccines, and provided an assessment of the available treatments.

COVID-19 Pandemonium serves as an after-action report five years on that investigates the origin of COVID-19 and resulting fractures in social structure and function as a consequence of the failure of our institutions to properly come to grips with the actual threat of the disease. With over 800 citations and the efforts of over 20 authors, this book chronicles the debacle of governments, health regulatory agencies, the courts, our higher education institutes, and the media to effectively deal with the pandemic, whilst supporting clear violations of human rights and freedoms, quashing debate and encouraging strict censorship in a fight against “misinformation.”

The authors argue that the lasting impacts of divisive COVID-19 policies and responses will widen the fractures in our society and further erode public trust in governments and institutions unless we learn from the lessons that the COVID-19 pandemic provided.

WE ARE TOLD THAT the next major infectious disease pandemic is coming soon, and we had better get prepared for it. The measures and policies invoked during the COVID-19 pandemic were essentially a dry run for more draconian actions that are currently being proposed with new legislation in Canada. The predecessor volume Down the COVID-19 Rabbit Hole “red-pilled” readers on the “science” of COVID-19. Herein, the authors take you even deeper down the rabbit hole to reveal the “politics” of COVID-19, and what went so wrong. COVID-19 Pandemonium documents the outright failures of governance, the health care systems, the courts, the universities and mainstream media to understand and effectively deal with the actual SARS-CoV-2 threat, which was not even close to being as calamitous as originally hyped. However, the counter-responses to this tiny virus proved to be far more damaging to the public, with profound negative impacts on our individual mental, physical, and fiscal health, and fractured society broadly. The abuses of human rights and freedoms during the COVID-19 pandemics were largely ignored, downplayed and even facilitated by what were once trusted institutions, resulting in a further slide towards totalitarian rule, censorship of debate and loss of democratic principles.

Steven Pelech is a full Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC) since 1988. He has authored over 270 published studies on cell communication systems critical to immune function and their role in diseases like cancer, diabetes, and neurological disorders. Along with extensive experience working with over 2,000 academic and industrial clients worldwide, he led a large-scale clinical study involving 4,500 participants to track antibody responses to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

A recipient of the 1993 Martin F. Hoffman Award and the 1993 Merck Frosst Canada Prize for biochemistry, Dr. Pelech also has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. He is also a founding member and current vice-president of the CCCA.