The Politics of the Pandemic

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Matt Welch: The United States has a long history of pushback against public health mandates. He says it seems to be motivated by driven by a set of widespread cultural values related to individualism and choice. Welch: People who push their glasses up and tell you what to do, they combine into a perfect storm of mistrust that threatens American freedom.

At the peak of COVID-19, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling set out to write a book about the widespread pushback against masks and vaccines as away to discuss the rise of the medical freedom movement in America. But after meeting a series of people within that movement his efforts took a sharp turn into the motivations, tribulations, and personal lives of the people who sell miracle cures and dietary supplements, skirting the law when they can, and heading to jail when they can't. The book is titled, If it Sounds Like a Quack, and it is a deep dive into the marketplace of snake oils and magical procedures sold by people who each claim to have found the one true cure for any and everything that could ever ail you.

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