A DeSantis-Noem Republican ticket in 2024 is not out of the question. But unlike De Blasio she remains popular in her state and her party. Similarly, Kristi Noem, South Dakota’s performative Republican governor, is derided for her “freedom-first” strategy. “The impact of New York’s delay was significant,” Slavitt writes. To his credit, Slavitt does take to task Bill de Blasio, that hapless and tin-eared mayor, for urging New Yorkers to “go out and enjoy themselves at restaurants” as the pandemic took root. He lauds pandemic responses in Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand and criticizes Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis, governors of Texas and Florida.īut he ignores the fact that cases and mortality rates in those two states were lower than in New York and New Jersey – states called home by coastal elites. Slavitt’s book is subtitled “The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the US Coronavirus Response”. Slavitt sees Trump’s cruelty at the southern border but fails to acknowledge the grievances of those in flyover country. Said differently, if kin can repeatedly raise arms against kin, the social fabric can never be taken for granted – especially not as demographics convulse. The saga of Albion’s Seed – English Protestants who slaughtered each other in the old country, overthrew the crown in a new land then waged a second civil war – does not figure in Slavitt’s calculus. Unfortunately, he does not reflect on how the US reached this place. His book reads like Covid-porn for blue America. He also did stints in the Obama administration and at Goldman Sachs, McKinsey and United Healthcare. Slavitt, recently departed as a senior adviser to Joe Biden on Covid response, is himself a product of the Ivy League: the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard business school.
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