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fillups44's avatar

Have you looked at the book, In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us

by Frances E. Lee and Stephen Macedo? I have only heard interviews from the authors, most notably on Mike Pesca's The Gist https://youtu.be/csmonaerAzY?si=XGR4vGJIyklXoC05 I am looking forward and digging into their observations which often are eerily similar to yours.

Have you ever thought to go on a podcast (especially The Gist) to talk about your own experiences during that time.

Thanks so much for the valuable work you have done with your attention to data during the pandemic. It lead me to a more rational place.

Also thanks to your clear eyed responses to some of the book censorship issues over the years. I don't write often but I definitely appreciate the work you continue to do!

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polimath's avatar

It's on my list. I just got David Zweig's book "Abundance of Caution" and I'm in the middle of digging through that. I'm in a weird place of being right in the middle of a lot of this and reviewing what happened with this much remove is making me more upset about it. Time had healed some wounds but now I'm going back and remembering exactly how bad it was. And it was very bad.

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fillups44's avatar

Yes! It was really bad on many levels & the fact that nothing seems to be learned or acknowledged about the missteps and how they lead to the unfortunate present is particularly galling.

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