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🗓️ 12 August 2020
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Dr. Jeremy Brown's book, Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History, was published shortly before the outbreak of COVID-19, and yet its lessons are remarkably prescient and relevant to our situation. Guiding us through history and reflecting on our current crisis, it's Authors in August on RBI.
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0:00.0 | My brother-in-law spoke truth when at a recent family barbecue he pointed out that seemingly |
0:06.8 | every conversation these days seemingly somehow ends up getting back to COVID. He was getting tired of it. |
0:15.0 | It just has such a strong gravitational attraction. We can't get away from it. It reminds me of Godwin's law, which I've mentioned before in this podcast. |
0:22.0 | Maybe you know it, the old internet law that states quote |
0:24.6 | as an online discussion grows longer the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or |
0:30.6 | Hitler approaches one." |
0:33.0 | Well, these days, as any discussion grows longer, |
0:37.1 | the chances that it'll arrive back at COVID approaches one. |
0:41.6 | You could call it my brother-in-law's law. So just as my brother-in-law |
0:45.1 | challenges all of us to consider specifically not mentioning COVID in a given |
0:50.6 | conversation or a period of hours or a day if you like try it just as that challenge is issued here I am with this |
0:59.1 | week's entire podcast focused on influenza and to a lesser but inevitable extent COVID. |
1:05.0 | It's authors in August and my guest this week is the splendid Dr. Jeremy Brown |
1:10.0 | who will be talking about his book, Influenza, |
1:12.6 | the 100-year hunt to cure the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. |
1:17.0 | And that talk about what happened 100 years ago |
1:21.0 | would be interesting enough on its own, fascinating full of lessons but of course it seems even more |
1:25.7 | pertinent in light of what we are all living through in 2020. So, 1918, 2019, right here now, Jeremy Brown influenza only on this |
1:40.8 | week's rule breaker investing. It's the rule breaker investing podcast with Motley full co-founder David Gardner. |
1:49.0 | Welcome back to this week's Rule Breaker Investing. I have a real treat in store for you. |
1:57.0 | We'll get to that very shortly. As I mentioned at the top, Influenza, the 100-year hunt to cure the |
2:02.4 | 1918 Spanish flu pandemic with author |
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