Avarla reviewed Pale Rider by Laura Spinney
Review of 'Pale Rider' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Sometimes, the narrative felt a bit jumpy. All in all the information was very well told, the writing style was mostly captivating, and the smug feeling of "you have no idea what you're talking about" is an unavoidable by-product of our current pandemic.
I found it very interesting, that earlier "flu" pandemics might have been caused by corona viruses as well, since so far I was only aware of SARS and MERS.
I'm also now very interested in the sidenote on immune reactions to different versions of the same virus. So if you have had a H5N1 flu virus exposure in the past, and are then exposed to another version of that same virus, your body will remember that first exposure but can never adapt this reaction to the second virus, to fight it as perfectly as the first one. This might cause you to be hit harder even though …
Sometimes, the narrative felt a bit jumpy. All in all the information was very well told, the writing style was mostly captivating, and the smug feeling of "you have no idea what you're talking about" is an unavoidable by-product of our current pandemic.
I found it very interesting, that earlier "flu" pandemics might have been caused by corona viruses as well, since so far I was only aware of SARS and MERS.
I'm also now very interested in the sidenote on immune reactions to different versions of the same virus. So if you have had a H5N1 flu virus exposure in the past, and are then exposed to another version of that same virus, your body will remember that first exposure but can never adapt this reaction to the second virus, to fight it as perfectly as the first one. This might cause you to be hit harder even though you have some immunity already. This seems very interesting and I really want to look into this further.
