Nightmare Scenario Quotes

“But Birx wasn’t going to let it go. She shot back right away, “Those people only listen to you, Mr. Vice President, and the president. They don’t listen to me.” The room froze. In two sentences, she had captured the whole year, the whole mess, the whole tragedy. Those people. The country had broken in two. There were “these people” and “those people.” My people and your people. It had become impossible to coordinate a response to the pandemic because one group of people believed only one group of leaders and the other group believed only Trump. The dynamic had made the task force’s job impossible and led to so much suffering.”
― Yasmeen Abutaleb, Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History – A #1 Bestselling Washington Post Exposé of Federal COVID Incompetence

“More than 3 million people die in the United States in 2020, an increase of 400,000 from one year earlier. The 15 percent jump is the biggest one-year increase in deaths since 1918.”
― Yasmeen Abutaleb, Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History – A #1 Bestselling Washington Post Exposé of Federal COVID Incompetence

“On Sunday, April 26, the Boston Globe runs twenty-one pages of death notices, up from seven pages at the same time a year earlier.”
― Yasmeen Abutaleb, Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History – A #1 Bestselling Washington Post Exposé of Federal COVID Incompetence