To say the current coronavirus pandemic is overwhelming for people would be a gross understatement. For most Americans and huge swaths of the entire human race, few aspects of their daily lives have been untouched by the most significant public health event in a century. Those living in times of historic upheaval are rarely able to grasp the meaning of their suffering, nor do they usually see how their current challenges and era fit into the larger tapestry of history. Freelance journalist and independent academic and historian Brian Frydenborg presents the big picture as only he can, building on his two decades of analysis of policy, politics, conflict, and international affairs that has consistently been dramatically far ahead of even most of the top journalists and news outlets out there. In Frydenborg’s unique, deep exploration of the past, present, and future that defined, are defining, and will define the COVID-19 moment and its deeply uncertain aftermath, readers will gain a unique historical perspective that places the coronavirus pandemic in the larger societal, cultural, racial, socio-economic, international, and even strategic and tactical military contexts necessary to truly understand the forces that led to this disaster, that are confronting us now, and will surely challenge us in the future, in particular through the prisms of biowarfare, bioterrorism, cyberwarfare, and disinformation. Leaving the health information and virology to the experts, Frydenborg takes his reader on a deep exploration of the larger policy and cultural issues in America the pandemic has revealed. It is incumbent on all Americans to understand why American leaders, society, and even our fellow citizens catastrophically failed to rise to the occasion and instead undertook one of the least effective national responses on the entire planet; this short book is as good a place to start as any to look past the immediate moment and get to more meaningful, broader truths as we just begin to explore how we will attempt to move forward amidst a raging global pandemic.