Investigative journalist David
Gardner turns his uncompromising gaze on the many conspiracy theories
connected with the COVID pandemic. With first-hand reporting and detailed
investigations into the people who originated these COVID theories - some of
them plausible, some driven by an agenda, and some plainly mad - he answers
the questions that everyone has been asking for nearly two years since the
pandemic began, and left us doubting our leaders as never before.

When
COVID-19 struck early in 2020, first in China and inexorably through the rest
of the world, it quickly became the subject of the most virulent outbreak of
conspiracy theories we have ever seen. The pandemic quickly became an
infodemic.

The
President of the United States championed bleach as a cure, the Chinese
government blamed the Americans, and the American government blamed the
Chinese - a Cold War over a cold virus. David Icke said that COVID does not exist. People blamed 5G phone networks,
genetically modified crops, Bill Gates, Corona beer, aliens, bats and pangolins …

Yet
these theorists are not all the obsessive cultists and paranoid mavericks
with whom the conspiracy-theory label is often associated. They are your
parents, your next-door neighbour, your boss at work. The question marks over
the origins of COVID-19, the dangers of the virus.

The
world has been changed for ever by the events of the past two years. It is
crucial that history offers an accurate account of what happened. This book
will play a key role in revealing what - and what not - to believe.