{"id":6,"date":"2026-05-13T16:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waff.panda9.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:08:08","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/waff.panda9.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-default\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">This book invites you to walk away from fear.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-d0b3c9c8 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-63ad9b10 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"--col-width:450px;padding-bottom:0;flex-basis:450px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-medium-font-size\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:10px;border-top-right-radius:10px;border-bottom-left-radius:10px;border-bottom-right-radius:10px;min-height:600px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1247\" height=\"1805\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 200vw, (max-width: 1247px) 100vw, 1247px\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-8 size-full\" alt=\"Walking Away From Fear: A Journey Exploring Viruses, Contagion, and Why We Get Sick, by Elizabeth Barnum, PhD\" src=\"https:\/\/waff.panda9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/book-front-cover-rabbit-with-mask.jpeg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/waff.panda9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/book-front-cover-rabbit-with-mask.jpeg 1247w, https:\/\/waff.panda9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/book-front-cover-rabbit-with-mask-207x300.jpeg 207w, https:\/\/waff.panda9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/book-front-cover-rabbit-with-mask-707x1024.jpeg 707w, https:\/\/waff.panda9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/book-front-cover-rabbit-with-mask-768x1112.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/waff.panda9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/book-front-cover-rabbit-with-mask-1061x1536.jpeg 1061w\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-40 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-base-2-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-heading-font-family wp-elements-93fb23c6f83376d177f12272bf542512\" style=\"background-color:#12121217;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;font-size:clamp(1.125rem, 1.125rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.125), 1.2rem);\"><strong>Walking Away From Fear: <br>A Journey Exploring Viruses, Contagion, and Why We Get Sick<\/strong><br><br>by Elizabeth Barnum, PhD<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<p class=\"has-body-font-family\" style=\"font-size:17px\">Fear of &#8220;germs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-body-font-family\" style=\"font-size:17px\">Fear of viruses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-body-font-family\" style=\"font-size:17px\">Fear of contagion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-body-font-family\" style=\"font-size:17px\">Fear of getting sick by an invisible microbe that is breathed out by the person who coughed on you in the elevator or by something your kids brought home from school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-body-font-family\" style=\"font-size:17px\">Fear of being a victim of a \u201cdeadly virus\u201d that you are told is circulating in the world and could kill you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-body-font-family\" style=\"font-size:17px\">Thoroughly researched and clearly written, <em>Walking Away From Fear<\/em>&nbsp;explains from a non-scientist\u2019s perspective the lack of evidence that bacteria cause disease and that viruses exist. Elizabeth Barnum also describes what it really means when we get sick: symptoms are not signs of illness, but signs of our wise and competent bodies pushing out toxic substances and cleaning up dead tissue to make way for new healthy cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-body-font-family\" style=\"font-size:17px\">Elizabeth argues that the germ theory and virus narratives\u2015that pathogenic microbes make us ill by jumping into us and destroying our cells\u2015have given us a highly incorrect understanding of sickness, health, and how our bodies work. 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