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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShe Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next?
New York Times(Laurie is a personal friend)
I told Laurie Garrett that she might as well change her name to Cassandra. Everyone is calling her that anyway.
She and I were Zooming thats a verb now, right? and she pulled out a 2017 book, Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes. It notes that Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was prescient not only about the impact of H.I.V. but also about the emergence and global spread of more contagious pathogens.
Im a double Cassandra, Garrett said.
Shes also prominently mentioned in a recent Vanity Fair article by David Ewing Duncan about the Coronavirus Cassandras.
She and I were Zooming thats a verb now, right? and she pulled out a 2017 book, Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes. It notes that Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was prescient not only about the impact of H.I.V. but also about the emergence and global spread of more contagious pathogens.
Im a double Cassandra, Garrett said.
Shes also prominently mentioned in a recent Vanity Fair article by David Ewing Duncan about the Coronavirus Cassandras.
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She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next? (Original Post)
brooklynite
May 2020
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FM123
(10,054 posts)1. She's great - I remember seeing her on Rachel Maddow a few months ago!
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)2. Kicked!
brooklynite
(94,831 posts)3. Had drinks with her (online) last night...
Baclava
(12,047 posts)4. "Just as we come out of our holes and see what 25 percent unemployment looks like" she said ...
we may also see what collective rage looks like
That sounds loverly, did she ever mention anything about asteroids or volcanoes blowing up?