The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Ratings44
Average rating4.2
Terrifying but a must-read for anyone affected by the public health system in America...which is all of us.
I wish this story had a happy ending, but it's fascinating to read about missteps the US Government has made in public health, and in particular in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
DNF @ 30% it wasn???t bad. It hit too close to home. I???m still hurting from lockdown.
As I would expect from Lewis, the book has a quick and engaging narrative flow that makes it very easy to get deep into the book. That the content is still relevant 17 months into a pandemic also helps. It's infuriating to know the tools have been in the toolbox for 15 years, and the speed of government lead to a lot of really unnecessary consequences for hundreds of thousands of people. It's like an insiders view to the start of the pandemic without all the controversy around the measures that would come and go afterwards. The book doesn't pull a lot of punches in its criticisms of bureaucracy and institutional ego that so often, rightly, take the blame when things go horribly wrong. If you think you can read it without getting stressed about the content, I highly recommend checking it out.