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#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
Science Fiction and the Lethal Pandemic
In a pandemic, as Larry Brilliant said many years ago, the key is early detection and early action. That's how you deal with a novel pathogen. And almost no Western country did that. The lesson for me is quite different from the one that most journalists thought they were learning last year. Most journalists last year thought Trump is a terrible president. It's his fault that we have high access mortality in the United States. But I don't think it's true to say that with different leaders, these countries would have done significantly better. If Joe Biden had magically been president a year early,I don't think the US would have done much better because the things that caused excess mortality
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