Think the Government is Ready for the Next Pandemic?

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I thought this book was very well written. Like any good story, I found it difficult to put down.

It was very frustrating to see yet another venerable institution, the CDC, laid bare. If you a fan of big government (though some elements of the private for-profit sector do not fare well in this story either) you're going to be saddened to see how dysfunctional so many layers of government, not just federal, can be. "Political cover" is often more important than public health. Political appointees are selected for reason other than competence, and these appointees cannot be made to look bad, even though they are useless and not contributing to the solution. The sheer cowardice of our political class is depressing.

Fortunately, there are some very smart people in the world who can get the right things done

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