Sardonic, iconoclastic, profane, and unapologetically blunt, The COVID Chronicles casts a dystopian eye on the self-inflicted ills that plague mankind - global warming and climatic disasters; unfettered capitalism, corruption, and injustice; greed, violence, and a lust for war; the rising irrelevance of knowledge and the pride of ignorance; the subversion of democracy and the seditious forces, political and religious, that conspire to turn America into a fascist mafia state. Sadly, the author asserts, the evanescent nature of history's impact on succeeding generations does not include a built-in sense of anticipation for the horrors to come.