The Premonition
by Michael Lewis · first published 2021
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How three groups — a California public health official, an incidental virologist, and a presidential pandemic task force — came together to deal with viral infections, including COVID, and the American public-health system, including the Center for Disease Control.
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…whether they want you to become a citizen. Not some far away bureaucrat. An argument for your stated preference of more expertise is hinted at in this review in what I think is the book of the year, “The Premonition” by Michael Lewis. They cite a book “10% Less Democracy.” There is some merit to this in the short run—but in the long run, I would rather be Swiss. (And I would be on the side where I would be happy…
Yes. If you want a really good explanation of how it happened and the effects it’s practically the subject of The Premonition by Michael Lewis
on “No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation” ↗…health system in the USA. There's basically an independent public health officer for practically every county, and there's very little coordination between them and the CDC. Michael Lewis' book "The Premonition" is eye-opening to how dysfunctional public health is in the US. And it's not like he's alone, even the head of the CDC this week called for a reform of the public health system in the US (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/rochelle-walensky-c...).…
on “The case against masks at school” ↗They did. Repeatedly. Further, many exposés and post mortems are in progress. The Premonition https://www.amazon.com/Premonition-Pandemic-Story-Michael-Le... Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-Inevitable-Normal-Survive-E...…
on “Delta Variant” ↗…But the agency isn’t a crisis organization. It lacks the infrastructure to mobilize a rapid response and is too hidebound and process driven to move quickly." This resonates with what I read in "The Premonition" by Michael Lewis
on “Monkeypox Is About to Become the Next Public Health Failure [Opinion]” ↗…how it failed, which is clearly outside of what they can affect. Try to stick to one opinion. If you want some information about things to criticize about what their plan was, Michael Lewis' 'The Premonition' is a whole book about that shit show. Their biggest problem was that they were not an agency built to actually fight a pandemic, but tried to study it first. However, none of these bad plans even matter…
on “What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)” ↗…and: Govt has become increasingly risk adverse. Any proactive misstep is ruthlessly pilliored. So we're left with cycles of neglect, crisis, and oversteer. Just one example: Michael Lewis' latest book Premonition details how the CDC went from proactive to hyper risk adverse. And we've just seen how that played out.
on “U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor manufacturing” ↗…their own careers. One could argue that you absolutely need specialists/technocrats running the Fed, if you’re going to have a Fed at all. One data point - a key takeaway from Michael Lewis’s book The Premonition was a damning assessment of the CDC and the top leadership in California’s public health. And while Lewis isn’t a Trump fan, he didn’t spare Democrats. As COVID spreading across America, California’s…
on “Ask HN: Are We in a Bubble?” ↗