Dispatch 1: Numbers

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In a recent Radiolab group huddle, with coronavirus unraveling around us, the team found themselves grappling with all the numbers connected to COVID-19. Our new found 6 foot bubbles of personal space. Three percent mortality rate (or 1, or 2, or 4). 7,000 cases (now, much much more). So in the wake of that meeting, we reflect on the onslaught of numbers - what they reveal, and what they hide.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening to radio lab from W and Y
0:13.7	cool. We have everybody. No, I don't see Dylan, Dylan, are you what?
0:28.3	Don't you have tag oh no there's sad. It does not feel like enough. People are
0:32.0	Brady Bunch doesn't feel it. No, it seems too small. Did Chad just disappear. Oh,
0:38.5	Oh, Chad says his audio hijack short circuited everything.
0:43.6	There's there's DK.
0:45.7	I'm sure Chad will be back in a sec.
0:48.5	All right.
0:48.7	Well, we'll wait for Chad to log back on just.
0:50.7	Okay.
0:51.1	It's Chad.
0:51.8	I am here.
0:52.9	It's funny like at the beginning of all this, I, I think we all
0:57.0	felt a little robbed.
0:59.1	Not we specifically, but I think all of us felt like we had all of these
1:02.8	plans for our lives.
1:03.9	And now they had to be put on hold.
1:05.3	But then as the sort of gravity of things has kind of set in that feeling has
1:12.0	thankfully given way to I think just a lot of other feelings.
1:17.0	Worry anxiety, but also gratitude for the people that we get to worry about.
1:24.5	There's been a lot of change here at Radio Lab, even before this, Robert retired.
1:29.0	We launched a whole series about Guantanamo Bay where a lot of Nasser took the helm.
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