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Michael Lewis on why Americans distrust experts
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Are We Going to Have a Pandemic?
I was on a paper back book tour for the previous book, the fifth risk. A british journalist asked me what do you think it will take for americans to start to rally around their government rather than attack it. And i said, think a pandemic would do. I did say in my defence, because i was wrong. In my defence, i said a pandemic in which everybody was equally exposed,. and rich were as terrified as poor and all that, that that might drive the kind of change now. Now we have a million Americans dead, and it's, if anything, the situation's worse. So what wouldn't i get wrong? Well, i might have
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