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seano312 's review for:
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
by Michael Lewis
I’m actually shocked that this book is out before the pandemic is over. It’s good but it doesn’t have an ending.
What it does have is some really good reflections on what government did during the various pandemics of the last 50 years.
What it did right and wrong. And how some organizations (CDC) are so politically risk averse that they no longer can be trusted to do the right thing.
There are some heroes but they’re not in the usual places. One of them is George W. Bush. Yes. I’m shocked too.
I wish there was more of an ending and that Lewis spent time talking about later pandemic stories.
But it was a very good book.
What it does have is some really good reflections on what government did during the various pandemics of the last 50 years.
What it did right and wrong. And how some organizations (CDC) are so politically risk averse that they no longer can be trusted to do the right thing.
There are some heroes but they’re not in the usual places. One of them is George W. Bush. Yes. I’m shocked too.
I wish there was more of an ending and that Lewis spent time talking about later pandemic stories.
But it was a very good book.