85: Hope springs eternal

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🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Mike and Lesley-Ann debate the latest batch of topics including how to mitigate risk during the coronavirus outbreak, the tragic story of Peaches Geldof, TV series The Split, the Madeleine McCann mystery, electric cars, the future for the world's oil and natural resources and climate change.

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you are listening to Life on Planet Porky.
0:26.4	Thank you very much indeed for joining us today.
0:28.6	I am of course with Leslie Ann Jones.
0:30.8	Leslie Ann, great to have you back in the studio.
0:32.8	Thank you very much indeed.
0:34.0	How are you coping with coronavirus?
0:37.1	Well.
0:37.3	Because it's now become a real burden to our lives, has it not?
0:40.7	I was poo-pooing all of this and I'm ashamed to say that I was suggesting.
0:45.7	Well, I'm still want to know why a condition which is equivalent to a sort of cold or flu
0:54.0	can be deemed to be so blinking
0:55.8	dangerous and brought so much chaos to the world.
0:58.3	Very simple.
0:58.7	When 8 million people a year around the world die of flu anyway.
1:01.7	This is true, but the human being has developed antibodies against various kinds of flus.
1:09.0	The problem with the coronavirus and in particular COVID-19 is that because it's leapt from the animal
1:15.7	kingdom into humans, we haven't yet had time to develop antibodies to combat this and to get
1:21.8	over it.
1:22.3	So the human will take time for this to happen.
1:26.8	Meanwhile, the scientists are trying to develop a
1:30.2	vaccine, but that's going to take about a year. So this will continue to escalate and to kill people.
1:38.2	Lots of people will get over it. Yes. The vulnerable people won't. Well, I'm very, very worried
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