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53: Michael Lewis on why U.S. COVID response was so…CRAPPY. (My word)

The Al Franken Podcast

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Premonition - A Response to the Pandemic

I'd a thought that lots of people would say, we want this thing. We saw what happened when we don't have this kind of thing. So it was an example of a hostility to the reft. I mean, the trump administration rolls in and treats the agencies in the government as if they're evil, irrelevant, wasteful, unnecessary. And i'd ha thought, you don't show up for the transition, and the american people would be irritated with you. Your job is to run this thing. Youv got to take it seriously. But people tht angry about it. Well, that's wat the fifth risk, which was your previous book, before premonition

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