This book provides ideas for how to cope with a pandemic, scientific background, and also touches on the historical context. As we experience the COVID-19 pandemic, we are barraged by anxieties and questionable rumors. In this book, we outline the facts, and review the simple actions you can take. Sadly, there are no medically-sound effective treatments for that you can take at home, but there are many facts and nuances that will help better understand what is going on. This book discusses how to make an effective bleach at home, list how to organize your office in the face of a pandemic, and outlines the difference between viruses (both DNA and RNA) and bacteria and what this means pragmatically. The authors and contributors have jointly published extensively on multiple topics. They are not all credited by name for legal reasons and due to institutional agreements, but they have extensive science writing experience, two doctorates and over 250 refereed published scientific publications to their credit. Get this book now to better understand what is happening.