CORONAVIRUS TOILET PAPER PANIC: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) decides who is to blame for the panic buying that led to the GREAT TOILET PAPER SHORTAGE OF 2020. She is joined by Fact Checker Chris Smith, Producer Amanda Lund and Guest Expert (Associate Professor at Macquarie University Centre for Emotional Health), Dr. Melissa Norberg. On the board this week: Fear Contagion Effect, Social Media and Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's andio's Original. |
| 0:25.0 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:29.0 | The ability to mentally transform any situation |
| 0:32.0 | into the worst case scenario in my own brain. |
| 0:40.2 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 0:43.8 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest |
| 0:49.1 | disasters and find out who's to blame. |
| 0:55.0 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 0:58.0 | Not on my watch. |
| 0:59.0 | My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith, |
| 1:02.0 | and I am The Alarmist. |
| 1:05.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into The Alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk |
| 1:15.1 | about history's greatest disasters and figure out who's to blame. If we sound |
| 1:19.7 | a little different here today, it's because here at the alarmist we are recording remotely |
| 1:25.7 | until the self-isolation slash quarantine slash coronavirus situation is under control. So this is us over here at the alarm |
| 1:37.7 | is doing our part to help flatten the curve. Now what does not flatten the curve is hoarding specifically toilet paper. |
| 1:46.0 | Now I am certain none of the alarm is to blame for this but is? Today we will decide who's to blame for the |
| 1:55.5 | coronavirus toilet paper crisis. Here's what you need to know. In December of |
| 2:02.0 | 2019 a novel coronavirus outbreak was discovered in the Chinese city of Wu Han. |
| 2:09.0 | To date, the virus has become a pandemic and has been confirmed in over 100 countries and it is infected |
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