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The Covid Letters

The book comprising Emails sent by AK during the alleged “Covid Crisis” and directed to assorted authors, artists and professional psychologists) was published in December 2024.

About the book (from the back cover of the print edition):

"Author and psychologist Alan Kennedy retired to live in rural France in 2010, maintaining extensive email contact with colleagues, acquaintances and rivals. This collection of "letters", addressed to artists, writers, lawyers, fellow psychologists, and members of the public, provides a unique perspective on the Age of Covid as seen from France. Covering the period January 2020 to December 2021 they offer a brutally frank assessment of the disturbing role played by psychologists in what future generations will see as a wholly corrupt endeavour.

"A deadly disease where you need a test to discover whether you have it - that's a joke isn't it? A completely novel disease that turns out in fact to be an unremarkable member of a family of infectious viruses - so not "completely novel" after all. Isn't it time someone ratted on this nonsense? If you don't need symptoms to define a "disease", watch out, the gas ovens lie that way. A test of unknown specificity with a high false positive rate redefines 'cases' as 'infections.' For God's sake - they will rise indefinitely, ticking off every one who has ever had a cold! When will people notice that there was a nasty disease that has run its course? Don’t they know about Farr's Law?"

Spiced with sardonic humour but never quite despairing, the book bears witness to the stupidity of clever men.

How to Buy:
There is currently a Kindle edition available on the Amazon website. A paperback edition is available on the LULU site and from AMAZON.



All pages © Alan Kennedy, 2025