* Joni Ernst called one death from Ebola a failure of leadership by Obama. has advanced the mood of the public has become darker and more fearful and this has created a market for gloom and doom. He is a writer, known for The Ascent of Money (2008), Empire: How Britain Made the Modern. Neil Ferguson has been criticised for his predictions of 100,000 cases. That's they they were able to handle Ebola* and Zika much better. Niall Ferguson was born on 18 April 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe Hardcover by Niall Ferguson (Author) 4.4 877 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 6.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 22.40 57 Used from 3.18 14 New from 10.98 Paperback 15.99 27 Used from 13.43 27 New from 12. Ron Klain's admission about 2009 is THE WHOLE POINT! The Obama administration learned from that mistake and made lots of preparations as a result. Instead, the prediction ventured by Professor Neil Ferguson. Ferguson (the historian) says his own estimate, made in May 2020, was a death toll of approximately 250,000 by the end of 2020 a total that he still finds plausible when writing in August of. There is not doubt it would've been very bad in a counterfactual world where Biden or Clinton is president, but there is also no doubt that Fox News and Rush Limbaugh would have been hysterical about it and conservatives would've been all about wearing masks. were widely reported in the press, contributing to a sense of impending global doom. Even before the pandemic, Trump made things worse by firing dozens of CDC staffers in China, something Biden criticized at the time Much of the risk of a Trump administration was predicted by Michael Lewis' The Fifth Risk So you should elect presidents who realize that and know how to operate in that environment. Fallows' point is the president will *always* get blamed, regardless of the facts. He is the author of 16 books, including his most recent, Doom: The Politics. Terrible, terrible analysis by Ferguson on so many levels, and all of them driven by partisan priors. Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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