Pandemic Reading List
After talking with my pseudosister yesterday and having a number of conversations with people the past couple of weeks it has occurred to me that not everyone knows where to start in order to begin to understand what’s going on in the world.
Full disclosure, I work in arts/theater/nonprofits and am a science aficionado. I worked my way through a Biology associates degree (took 5 years but I’m proud as fuck that I did it). I just think science is fascinating.
I’ve found myself in recent weeks taking leadership roles in terms of helping my less science oriented colleagues and friends make sense of the language disparity between scientists and everyone else. I will continue doing my best to translate and help people understand but step one seems like making sure that people have access to the same resources that I use.
How to get Books and Stuff:
Scribd is great if you can afford it, but doesn’t always have everything. Always start at your local library (although they might be closed to the public right now, they’re still working to make sure people have access to as many resources as they can offer).
Libby by Overdrive - Get your local library on your phone!
Scribd.com - free trial and then a subscription service
As always, fuck *mazon. Get books from literally anywhere else. Get them from the trash before looking there. Also, Audible and Goodreads belong to them too. So fuck them as well.
Reading List:
*all published before the outbreak and not a part of any pandemic money grabs
Bunk by Kevin Young
Quackery by Lydia Kang
Typhoid Mary by Anthony Bourdain
Poison Squad by Deborah Blum
Rabid by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
Spillover by David Quammen
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe
Listening:
Ologies Podcast with Alie Ward
Sawbones with Dr. Sydnee & Justin McElroy
Science Friday from NPR
Science Rules! with Bill Nye
This Week In Virology with Vincent Racaniello - this one can get a little technical
Emerging Infectious Diseases by the CDC
**Feel free to add, these are just my favorites and the things that I think are the most accessible**
