Audible book review of Combatting Wastefulness & COVID-19 Etc. by Seton During

Combatting Wastefulness & COVID-19 Etc. is a self-help guide that the author Seton During says should help ethical taxpayers worldwide, and the ignored should benefit too. Seton During is an ex Chartered Engineer who has tried many things in his eighty-four years, including being a voluntary sector activist. His book gives strategies, policies, and practices that could help with health issues, energy saving, and house maintenance. Do you want to find out about pioneering research for dementia patients? Would you like advice on saving money on repairs and maintenance of your home? Would you like to save money? Are you worried about your health and safety? Listen to the audiobook Combatting Wastefulness & COVID-19 Etc. by Seton During to discover the answers to these and other questions. The narrator is Robert Sebastian Cooper, who has a voice I found very easy to listen to, and he speaks as I expect an elderly British man to sound.

I enjoyed the small amount of tongue-in-cheek humour in this book which made me laugh out loud; for example, when checking the house for repairs, "Access the spaces between higher ceilings and roof, if you can see the sky anywhere you have a leaking roof." There is some interesting information in Combatting Wastefulness & COVID-19 Etc. and I learned that if I put the palm of my hand in front of my door locks and I can feel a draft, then I should replace them with draft-proof locks; I never knew there was such a thing! I had never thought about what happens to the money of people who die without relatives or a will in place. I know now! 

I did not like a lot of Combatting Wastefulness &COVID-19 Etc. there is some complicated jargon that I had to google, making this book less user-friendly than it needs to be to make a difference. Despite the humour in this book, some passages are wordy and difficult to follow, and Seton During covers some heavy-going subjects, including Ebola, HIV, and Covid-19. Seton During has strong opinions, facts, and figures, which sometimes come across as scaremongering! His view on the Covid-19 vaccines, for example, "It continues to appear that deaths from the vaccines which primarily attack their victim's natural immune systems by triggering over defensive responses are higher than deaths from the virus itself!"

I would not recommend Combatting Wastefulness & COVID-19 Etc. by Seton During to anyone as the only parts I enjoyed was the humour which was only a few sentences. If you are interested in an elderly man bemoaning how countries deal with diseases and how they profit from vaccines to the detriment of the population, then you would enjoy this book!

Some areas feel like During is just venting against anyone who is not him and British. Some paragraphs in the book are just lists of things to try, which gets boring after a while. There was also a sentence repeated twice, which is unforgivable in an audiobook. Moreover, scaremongering is dangerous. Because of all these things and because I would not recommend this book to any of my friends and family, I want to give Combatting Wastefulness & COVID-19 Etc. 1 out of 5 stars