A pandemic of testing
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
With a new year comes a new wave of cynicism on our rocket of right thinking. This week, Allison wonders why the government has made it respectable for healthy people to skive work, while Liam predicts a year of ‘political unrest’. And both co-pilots ponder the question, how much Covid testing is too much?
Joining us on our Planet Normal voyage is pub owner and hospitality champion, Adam Brooks who delivers some home truths about the real effect of Covid restrictions on his venues, and shares the moving reason he's inspired to fight the good fight for hospitality.
And Allison shares her surprising, but scarily realistic dream with listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | This is now a pandemic of testing. |
| 0:14.0 | It is absolutely not a pandemic of illness. |
| 0:18.0 | Or... |
| 0:19.0 | You know, we can't damage businesses on hunches. |
| 0:22.0 | This is what the government have done all the way through. |
| 0:25.0 | They're hunches and guesses. |
| 0:27.0 | When, when, when! |
| 0:29.0 | Is a lobby correspondent going to say to the Prime Minister |
| 0:32.0 | or Jonathan Van Tam or Chris Whitty |
| 0:35.0 | why are we doing 10 times more tests than Germany? |
| 0:40.0 | Well, I had a dream a couple of nights ago. |
| 0:43.0 | You'll love this. |
| 0:44.0 | Well, I was actually at the press briefing and I was called to ask a question. |
| 0:49.0 | I was brilliant, honestly. |
| 0:51.0 | One. |
| 0:55.0 | We have let go. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome to a whole new year of Planet Normal, |
| 1:01.0 | the Telugu-Podcasts with Alison Pearson. |
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