Most of the book is terrific. When Patterson focuses on market forces and anything apolitical it's a fascinating read. After a while he gets away from that and the book falls prostrate at the base of the altar of St. Greta of Climate Change. There's also a section freaking out about January 6th, since proven to be basically the lamest insurrection in the history of insurrections. The covid stuff is somewhat comical too, given how much more we know now, and yet how much of that is ignored, by people like Dr. Hotez and friends, Patterson among them.
As more covid facts come out the narrative of a good chunk of the book falls apart. Turns out it wasn't nearly as dangerous as the propaganda machine made it out to be. In fact it was the globally botched response and central bank herd mentality (along with western governments dumping trillions into their economies) that caused so much damage. The vaccines do cause myocarditis, blood clots, etc. The virus was/is dangerous if you were/are old or had comorbidities, but otherwise it wasn't the Spanish Flu, Ebola or the Plague.
Patterson confuses mathematical concepts as well, which is weird, given how much math there is in the book. He cites and doesn't refute Bill Ackman's belief that "because 2 or 3 out of every 100 people are dying from covid, that up to a million people could die from it in the US alone." No, actually, with an assumed 50% of Americans contracting it, you're actually closer to 5 million Americans dying, and the actual number is nowhere near that. Then there's the confusion of R nought and case fatality rate. Who cares if the R nought is astronomical, how many are dying? He suggests that a high R nought is similar to a high case fatality rate.
This book was great until it talked about things Patterson has no business talking about. When he sticks to markets, quants, options (to a point), it's a phenomenal read. When he gets political it just becomes annoying and you feel like you're being preached at. If you don't want to deal with that nonsense you can avoid chapters 3, 16, 20, 21, 22 and honestly after that I gave up and lost interest with about 30 pages left.
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