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Dr Auster Home, welcome back.

Thank you very much.

Very good to see you again.

It's been basically two years from the day, and I think when you were on the podcast

for a lot of my friends that was the first

real fear that they felt about the pandemic you scared the shit out of a lot of

people well you know my job is not to scare anyone out of their wits, to scare them into their wits,

and to do what they can to deal with the situation.

As you know, at that time, March 10th of 2020, no one wanted to believe this was going to be a pandemic.

Yeah there was a lot of denial about how it was going to play out and people were

thinking that it was inflated or is not that big of a deal and then like I said when you came on the

podcast that like I got a bunch of calls from friends like going Jesus.

Yeah I think the understanding of where we've been, where we're at, and where we're going still, I think, isn't really completely clear.

Where we're going in particular, right?

Now, as an infectious disease expert, it's very rare that you have an opportunity during your lifetime, during your career, to examine a pandemic and to be through it and examine the responses to the pandemic.

You know, how, when you look back at it, what mistakes do you think were made and what do you think was done correctly?

Well, first of all, let me just say that one of the things I think has been missing from a lot of the response that we've had so far is an incredible sense of humility.

Humility.

Every day when I get up, the first thing I do is I look over at my nightstand and I see this crystal wall

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