![]() It doesn’t pay just to shut it down up front. It pays when Covid is all over society and corporations get to make a lot of money testing for it. Which is to say, we strongly encourage things that pay and we give correspondingly less attention to things that don’t pay. “If you look at what our two societies have in common, we’ve given ourselves over to markets in a way that’s pretty extreme. “There is no incentive to prevent things,” Lewis says. They never know for sure who else might be listening in. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. ![]() ![]() A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu…everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work. A local public-health officer uses her worm’s-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A thirteen-year-old girl’s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.įortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying.
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