Coronavirus Against the World

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Are we nearing another Great Depression? Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace, joins Nick to explain how COVID-19 is going to decimate the global economy, how rapidly job loss will occur, and why this is unlike anything we've seen in recent history. Nick also elucidates the latest numbers and projections around mortality rates and global impact. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Season 2 of Julia, the Max Original Series about the Life and Times of Julia Child returns
0:09.5	Thursday, November 16th.
0:11.6	Stream on Max and listen to dishing on Julia, the official companion
0:15.6	podcast.
0:16.6	Welcome to Inside the Hive. I am your host Nick Bilton.
0:23.2	So this past week has been without question one of the most insane things that I have ever
0:29.1	seen and probably will ever see.
0:32.2	It has happened with such speed and such ferocity and just
0:37.2	it's whiplash essentially is the only way I can describe what we are all going
0:41.0	through. It happened so quickly I remember just about 10 days ago,
0:47.0	eight days ago or so in a meeting explaining what I thought may happen and everyone kind of looking at me like I was insane and
0:56.0	and sure enough it was ten times worse than I imagined and we went from discovering that an NBA player had coronavirus to the industry shutting down, to every
1:09.7	industry shutting down, to Tom Hanks.
1:11.6	It's just been astounding we now have
1:13.9	cities on lockdown we have a barge on the on the Hudson that's a hospital
1:20.6	that can hold a thousand beds. We have stadiums being converted into
1:25.1	potential hospitals for for the influx of patients that may come.
1:28.4	Thousands of deaths globally, it's just it's unbelievable and I think that one thing that I
1:36.3	have that's really been kind of sobering for me in the past week is that for the
1:41.8	past 15 years of my career I have interviewed experts.
1:46.0	You know I would write stories for the Times and Vanity Fair and write books and
1:50.0	you call someone and you interview them and you ask them how something's going to happen
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