How To Survive a Pandemic
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered how you would fare in the apocalypse? Perhaps you have envisioned yourself, shotgun loaded, prepared to mete out kindhearted justice and tough-love defense in equal measure. It turns out, though, that when the next pandemic comes, it might not be exactly like the movies. We get tips from a public health expert at Johns Hopkins — and a member of the Zombie Squad. Their advice isn't quite the same.
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| 0:30.5 | Mike, I am totally, totally fine. My wife is totally fine. Our daughter, she looks a little bit green, |
| 0:36.3 | but it could just be the flu. Can you please let |
| 0:39.2 | us in? Because if we stay out here, we're definitely going to die. Negative. Negative? Across the board? |
| 0:44.8 | Not taking any chance. That's how people always end up getting their group killed. |
| 0:52.9 | This is how to, and I'm Charles Duhigg. |
| 0:55.0 | Each week we talk to listeners who are trying to figure out how to solve one of life's problems, |
| 1:01.0 | like how to cook the perfect meal or how to stop being anxious all the time. |
| 1:05.0 | And then we do some research and we track down an expert and get their advice to see if it helps. |
| 1:10.0 | This week, we want to know how to survive a pandemic. |
| 1:14.6 | A unique virus never seen before, easily transmitted from person to person, |
| 1:19.6 | with a demonstrated ability to kill. |
| 1:21.6 | The Ebola virus is moving south. |
| 1:23.6 | 90,000 people were diagnosed with measles in just the first A new kind of swine flew over the border in California. |
| 1:30.3 | The nightmare scenario nobody wanted is now everyone's problem. |
| 1:35.3 | Pandemics actually occur with some frequency. |
| 1:37.3 | There's been half a dozen of them in the last 50 years alone. |
| 1:41.3 | Back in 1918, for instance, a new strain of influenza emerged and it killed |
| 1:45.7 | more than 50 million people around the world in just 18 months. And in a bit, we're going to |
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