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Explore "pandemic preparedness" with insightful episodes like "Trump PAST RESURFACES After REPEATED UNHINGED POSTS", "It’s Time to Talk About ‘Pandemic Revisionism’", "Did We Predict the Pandemic?", "#247 — Constructing Minds" and "#1523 - Joey Diaz & Brian Redban" from podcasts like ""The MeidasTouch Podcast", "The Ezra Klein Show", "Science Vs", "Making Sense with Sam Harris" and "The Joe Rogan Experience"" and more!
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It’s Time to Talk About ‘Pandemic Revisionism’
Should schools have been closed down? Were lockdowns a mistake? Was masking even effective? Was the economic stimulus too big?
These are the questions that have defined the national conversation about Covid in recent months. They have been the subject of congressional hearings led by Republicans, of G.O.P. candidate stump speeches and of too many Twitter debates to count.
Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and the author of the popular newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. She argues that we’ve entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: “pandemic revisionism.” In her telling, the revisionist impulse seduces us into swapping cheap talking points for the thorny, difficult decisions we actually faced — and may face again with the next novel virus.
So this conversation centers on the myths — and realities — associated with how we remember the pandemic. It explores what the evidence on the effectiveness of masking says, the fact that the United States was locked down for less than two months, the surprising consensus over social-distancing policy among Democratic and Republican governors early in the pandemic, why the tale of Sweden’s controversial approach to the pandemic is misleading, why the American media paid so much more attention to the first 100,000 U.S. Covid deaths than to the next 900,000, why school closures weren’t as wrongheaded a policy as often portrayed in hindsight, whether Donald Trump gets enough credit for Operation Warp Speed and more.
This episode was hosted by David Wallace-Wells, a writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.” He also writes a newsletter for New York Times Opinion that explores climate change, technology, the future of the planet and how we live on it.
Book Recommendations:
Lessons from the Covid War by Covid Crisis Group
Open by Andre Agassi
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Emefa Agawu. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld. Our senior editor is Rogé Karma. The show’s production team also includes Rollin Hu and Kristin Lin. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Sonia Herrero.
Did We Predict the Pandemic?
#247 — Constructing Minds
Sam Harris speaks with Lisa Feldman Barrett about the origins and function of the human brain. They discuss how brains evolved, the myth of the “triune brain,” the brain’s network organization, the predictive nature of perception and action, the construction of emotion, concepts as prescriptions for action, culture as an operating system, and other topics.
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#1523 - Joey Diaz & Brian Redban
Joey “CoCo” Diaz is a Cuban-American stand up comedian and actor. Joey also hosts his own podcast called “The Church of What’s Happening Now", available on Spotify. Brian Redban is a comedian and the founder of the Deathsquad podcast network. Also look for him on “Kill Tony".
#104 - COVID-19 for kids with Olivia Attia
In this episode, Peter sits down with his daughter to answer questions from her and other kids about COVID-19.
We discuss:
- What is a virus? [1:45];
- How did this version of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) start? [4:30];
- How does COVID-19 compare to SARS and MERS (previous coronaviruses)? [6:00];
- Will COVID-19 come back again after we resolve the current issue? [7:15];
- When will kids go back to school? [7:45];
- How has the US surpassed China in total cases, and how could we have been better prepared for this? [8:30];
- Should have we started to quarantine sooner than we actually did? [11:45];
- What about herd immunity? Would it be easier if we all just got the virus so we could be immune? [13:45];
- Which age groups are the least and most at risk for getting a deadly version of the virus? [15:00];
- Why do we have to wipe down packages that are delivered to our homes? [16:30];
- How a lack of preparation and discipline led to this troubling situation [18:45];
- Is China to blame for all of this? [24:15];
- What did Olivia think when her parents pulled her out of school before it was mandated? [26:30];
- What's been the hardest part of this for Olivia? [27:50];
- What does Olivia appreciate now that she probably didn't appreciate in the past? [28:50];
- How are Olivia’s zone 2 workouts going? [30:00]; and
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The Coronavirus Goes Global
What began as a public health crisis in China is well on the way to becoming a pandemic. And while there is a lot of news about the coronavirus, there is also a lack of understanding about the severity of the threat. As officials warn of a potential outbreak in the U.S., we ask: How bad could the coronavirus get? Guest: Donald G. McNeil Jr., a science and health reporter for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.
Background reading:
- President Trump sought to reassure the country that the U.S. government was controlling the spread of the coronavirus after his administration weathered days of criticism.
- Here are the latest updates on the illness’s sweep around the world, with cases in at least 44 countries.
- What can you do to protect yourself and your family from the virus?