In their new book, "Whiplash," David Blumenthal and James A. Morone describe a passage where they address pandemics. They claim that every pandemic is followed by amnesia. According to them, the COVID-19 pandemic is very different. In the excerpt, they describe how scientists became villains for MAGA. The book covers the fight over Obamacare to the war on science. The authors describe how three different presidents maneuvered through different objectives. It also covers the COVID epidemic and President Trump's handling of it.[1][2]