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""Anna Maria Bounds provides an immensely illuminating and unique analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is one that only she could produce – and demonstrates that, in 2020, Bounds was the right scholar, in the right place, at a terrible, terrible time. As it offers a forensic outline of this COVID’s spread throughout New York City, this book combines Bounds’ background as a New Yorker, leading expertise on disaster prepping, and flair as an author, to provide a definitive account of a unique moment in NYC (and the wider world’s) history. To understand what happened during COVID, why it happened, how preppers readied for and responded to the disease, what can be learned from these events, and how we (as a society and individuals) might prepare for the next big event, you need to read this book."" Michael F. Mills, University of Kent ""Anna Maria Bounds dives again into New York City prepper culture with this fascinating follow-up to her 2020 book, Bracing for the Apocalypse. Experience and ethnographic research of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic bring an urgent update and focus on the visceral, material realities of the disaster prepared in disastrous times. The swells of massive change in economic conditions, governance, and racialized inequality are essential pieces of the puzzle that Anna brings to the table, in her quest to make us understand all of what is at stake. Expect fascinating stories and analyses of expertise, human connection, energy for collective action, and all the things New Yorkers learned during the pandemic that they could not do without. No plans for the fall? Then read this book!"" Meg Holden, Simon Fraser University ""In her second book on the prepping community, Bounds offers an insightful, captivating account of life in New York during the pandemic. A fascinating peek inside the urban prepper movement in NYC that tells a story of how hope, planning, and community can allay fear during crisis."" Bradley Garrett, Author of Bunker: Building for the End Times

"""Anna Maria Bounds provides an immensely illuminating and unique analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is one that only she could produce - and demonstrates that, in 2020, Bounds was the right scholar, in the right place, at a terrible, terrible time. As it offers a forensic outline of this Covid's spread throughout New York City, this book combines Bounds' background as a New Yorker, leading expertise on disaster prepping, and flair as an author, to provide a definitive account of a unique moment in NYC (and the wider world's) history. To understand what happened during Covid, why it happened, how preppers readied for and responded to the disease, what can be learned from these events, and how we (as a society and individuals) might prepare for the next big event, you need to read this book."" Michael F. Mills, University of Kent ""Anna Maria Bounds dives again into New York City prepper culture with this fascinating follow up to her 2020 book, Bracing for the Apocalypse. Experience and ethnographic research of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic bring an urgent update and focus on the visceral, material realities of the disaster-prepared in disastrous times. The swells of massive change in economic conditions, governance, and racialized inequality are essential pieces of the puzzle that Anna brings to the table, in her quest to make us understand all of what is at stake. Expect fascinating stories and analyses of expertise, human connection, energy for collective action, and all the things New Yorkers learned during the pandemic that they could not do without. No plans for the fall? Then read this book!"" Meg Holden, Simon Fraser University ""In her second book on the prepping community, Bounds offers an insightful, captivating account of life in New York during the pandemic. A fascinating peek inside the urban prepper movement in NYC that tells a story of how hope, planning, and community can allay fear during crisis."" Bradley Garrett, Author of Bunker: Building for the End Times"

"""Anna Maria Bounds provides an immensely illuminating and unique analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is one that only she could produce – and demonstrates that, in 2020, Bounds was the right scholar, in the right place, at a terrible, terrible time. As it offers a forensic outline of this COVID's spread throughout New York City, this book combines Bounds' background as a New Yorker, leading expertise on disaster prepping, and flair as an author, to provide a definitive account of a unique moment in NYC (and the wider world's) history. To understand what happened during COVID, why it happened, how preppers readied for and responded to the disease, what can be learned from these events, and how we (as a society and individuals) might prepare for the next big event, you need to read this book."" Michael F. Mills, University of Kent ""Anna Maria Bounds dives again into New York City prepper culture with this fascinating follow up to her 2020 book, Bracing for the Apocalypse. Experience and ethnographic research of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic bring an urgent update and focus on the visceral, material realities of the disaster-prepared in disastrous times. The swells of massive change in economic conditions, governance, and racialized inequality are essential pieces of the puzzle that Anna brings to the table, in her quest to make us understand all of what is at stake. Expect fascinating stories and analyses of expertise, human connection, energy for collective action, and all the things New Yorkers learned during the pandemic that they could not do without. No plans for the fall? Then read this book!"" Meg Holden, Simon Fraser University ""In her second book on the prepping community, Bounds offers an insightful, captivating account of life in New York during the pandemic. A fascinating peek inside the urban prepper movement in NYC that tells a story of how hope, planning, and community can allay fear during crisis."" Bradley Garrett, Author of Bunker: Building for the End Times"

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Anna Maria Bounds is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York, USA.

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