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So why did you write this book?

Who do you want to read it?

A lot of the commentary around what happened, what went wrong, I think was very political.

It was focused on a lot of the political mistakes that were made.

I don't think anyone started to delve into the more systemic

problems, more systemic shortcomings, the structural features of government that I

think made us successfully vulnerable to the pandemic. And I wanted to start to tell that story. I think if we're going to make sure we're better prepared if this happens again and this will happen again.

We start we have to start examining what are the features of government that failed? Why were we made so excessively vulnerable?

And there certainly were political shortcomings.

But there were a lot of things about the way the agencies were structured,

the way the agencies were structured, the way the agencies responded,

the kind of planning we had done in the past

that we thought would better prepare us for this pandemic, that weren't up to the test.

So this is something you want public health leaders, lawmakers lawmakers to learn some lessons from.

Yeah I think at some point we're going to start to reflect on what went wrong.

We're going to put together commissions, put together authoritative groups to try to you know come to some consensus about what we need to do differently

to better prepare for the future.

And I want this book to be part of that dialogue.

This was my attempt to lay out what I think some of the things that left us vulnerable were and how we can start to

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