title: The Ark: Surviving a Global Pandemic and the End of America
author:  Robert Hodam 
description: Robert Hodam has served as a US Army Captain, a fry cook in Disneyland, an aerospace engineer, a bartender at Harrahs Club Lake Tahoe, an oil field roustabout, and an alternate energy consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations, Asian Development Bank, the US Agency for International Development, Standard Oil, the US Congress, the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, and others. Mr. Hodam also served as CEO of the International Center for Economic Growth, a non-profit professional association of more than 400 macroeconomic policy institutes in over 100 countries. A graduate of Stanford University in chemical engineering, Robert Hodam holds patents in polymer chemistry and is widely published in technical papers. He has won architectural awards for off-the-grid home designs. Mr. Hodam has worked in or traveled to 64 countries and now lives with his wife of 40 years in Elk Grove California.
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  INTRODUCTION TO THE COMBINED VERSION (Dec. 2020)
  
  
  
  
  
  I had no idea what to expect when I published the first Unreported Truths
  booklet in June.
  
  
  I had a decent audience on Twitter for my arguments that governments all over
  the world had overreacted to the relatively minor threat Sars-Cov-2 posed. But
  I didn’t know if anyone would want to read the details of how we count Covid
  deaths and the reality that most victims are very old and sick. I figured
  maybe a few thousand people might pay $2.99 for an ebook of what I initially
  called the “Essential Guide to Covid.” (At the last minute I decided that
  title made it sound like a travel guide for backpackers and Unreported Truths
  would be both more accurate and punchier.)
  
  
  Instead – thanks in part to Amazon, which provided priceless publicity when it
  tried to keep me from publishing the book – that many people bought it in the
  first few hours it was on sale. Over 150,000 people have now purchased Part 1.
  Parts 2 and