Once again I have praise for The Premonition, by Michael Lewis. It’s a story of unwavering individual competence in the face of systemic incompetence.
Lewis shows how the pandemic revealed the inefficiencies of both the private and public sectors. If there’s an overarching theme, it’s that the CDC no longer does it job. Trump was the final blow to a once-great organization that began to decline 40 years ago, with Reagan and the AIDS crisis.