On Pandemics - David Walther-Toews

 A book about the current Covid Virus "pandemic" and how we ended up here.  Lightly written, easy read book with some wit.  There is an undercurrent of mockery or poking fun throughout the book for several reasons.  First, because scientists have been warning about the next pandemic for over a decade now and no one in positions of power was listening.  Second, many of the factors leading to modern pandemics are related to over-exploitation and destruction of natural environments, another problem that scientists have been warning us about for decades without much success.  Third, third world poverty, another much discussed but short on action problem, also encourages the kind  of human-animal interactions that lead to viruses jumping species.  Fourth, this cycle of viruses jumping species is an old cycle, repeated many times throughout history, often resulting from new modes of interaction between humans and the natural environment.