Pandemania: Or, a Brief History of the Medicalisation of Life.

The article offers information on the Western media that not only assumed Covid-19 global impact unique, they also anticipated its consequences in a rhetoric that mixed the mawkish with the morbid and the apocalyptic. Topics include examines that the governments reinforced the sense of impending doom, embracing an epidemiological prediction of death rates of percent of the West population unless they locked down the economy, quarantined households and suspended all non-essential activity.