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Hi everybody. Welcome to the Dennis Prager show on this Wednesday. A reminder that the next

hour is the male female hour. Walking into my studio brought me a glimmer of hope in this dark

period of world history, not only American history, I saw more unmasked outside people, people

outside than previously. And each case, I try to thank them because reason is rare.

Anyway, I have an esteemed guest. When I've respected his work, his magnificent Neil Ferguson,

renowned historian, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution,

brand new book out actually yesterday. And it is titled Doom, D-D-W-O-M, the politics of catastrophe.

Neil Ferguson, welcome to the Dennis Prager show. Great to be with you, Dennis.

Thank you, sweet of you to say. And of course, thank you for your prager, you videos.

They're just terrific. So this is very exciting. A book on the subject of the politics of

catastrophe coming from you. I think it's what the doctor ordered. Oh, I take that back since my

respect for doctors has declined. I take back that metaphor. All right, what is the thesis of your book?

Well, the thesis of my book is that we have to keep disasters and perspectives. We've certainly

lived through a disaster. That is an appropriate word to use when talking about COVID-19.

But it's by no means the biggest disaster in world history. In terms of the share of the world's

population that have been killed, it's on a par with the 1957-58 influenza pandemic,

which surprising the small number of people even remember. Compared with the world wars,

it's really a relatively modest disaster, closer to the Korean war than to the world wars.

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