Thank you for the much needed info, I was just looking up the book, could only find online French versions to double check this, Wikipedia has even dedicated a paragraph to refute it saying: "Quotes claiming to be from Attali's book Verbatim have been spread around the internet by covid conspiracy theorists. The quotes are a fabrication. [1]" I am pretty sure whenever we bring this up to a normie, he will just "google it", open up the wiki and feel assured that "conspriacy theorists" are mad as usual.