It is in the intrinsic nature of a contagious disease that it is a collective threat.

It is not a threat that individuals acting alone or even a group of individuals acting independently

can effectively confront.

It's like an invading army.

You don't confront an invading army by grabbing your gun and going to the frontier.

It's not very effective.

Welcome to post-Corona, where we try to understand COVID-19's lasting impact on the

economy culture and geopolitics. I'm Dan Señ. During the early phase

during the early phase of COVID-19,

one public intellectual and health professional, who I checked in with from time to time, was

Dr. Nicholas Christakis. And then, in the middle of the pandemic, Nicholas released an extraordinary

and sweeping book called Apollo's Arrow, the profound and enduring

impact of coronavirus on the way we live.

His thinking was a constant narrator for me over the past 18 months.

His book is an authoritative analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic from its beginning to its hoped

for end.

In the book he draws on scientific, medical, sociological research and

he basically assesses the transmission of the virus, the responses worldwide and

then the prognosis for the pandemics end and he

includes some pretty bold predictions some of which we'll talk about today and

then in addition if you're a history buff Nicholas places COVID-19 in the context of past pandemics.

The plague in ancient Athens, the Black Death in Medieval Europe, polio epidemics in 1916 and in the 1950s, obviously the great influenza, the Spanish

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