With ‘Blind Passengers – The Corona Crisis and the Consequences’, the physician and historian Karl Heinz Roth has written a fundamental work on the critical analysis of the pandemic, its history, spread and dynamics as well as the countermeasures, failures and the mental, social, economic and political consequences. Review by Anselm Weidner. Verlag Kunstmann, 480 pages, 30 euros ISBN 978-3-95614-484-4