[This is the introduction to Jeffrey A. Tucker new book “Life after Lockdown.”]
My last published book was “Liberty or Lockdown,” originally printed in September 2020. It was written in a mad fury over what happened to the world in March 2020 and delved deeply into the history of infectious disease and the lockdown idea. At this point in publishing, I still believed there was a real hope of a dramatic turnaround, that vast numbers of elites the world over would realize that they had embarked on a hopeless and deeply destructive crusade. At that point in my thinking, I believed that society and politics still more or less worked, that some mechanism would kick in and the ship of civilization would be righted.
