Quillette editors Jonathan Kay and Toby Young talk about Jonathan's article about coronavirus superspreaders
Quillette Podcast
Quillette
4.6 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette. |
| 0:08.0 | Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. |
| 0:15.3 | Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, |
| 0:18.8 | associate editor Toby Young and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay. You can support our podcast by |
| 0:24.2 | visiting Patreon.com forward slash quilette and becoming a monthly patron. By |
| 0:29.1 | becoming a monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter. |
| 0:32.4 | Welcome to the quilette podcast. patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome to the Colette Podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Jonathan Kay speaking to you from Toronto. |
| 0:38.0 | As regular listeners know, this podcast typically features me and my London-based colleague Toby Young interviewing |
| 0:45.0 | all manner of writers, academics, activists, and intellectuals. |
| 0:49.3 | But every once in a blue moon, the news cycle turns in a way that leads to Toby and I interviewing each other, which |
| 0:55.7 | is what's happening in this episode. |
| 0:58.0 | By way of background, last week I wrote a lengthy and ambitious article for Colette titled, |
| 1:03.2 | COVID-19 super spreader events in 28 countries, |
| 1:06.8 | critical patterns and lessons, which, |
| 1:09.5 | as the title suggests, contained an analysis of dozens of different major coronavirus contagion events around |
| 1:16.1 | the world with a focus on the actual human behaviors involved in these episodes. |
| 1:21.8 | It's the sort of large scale epidemiological study that I'd assumed had already been done by professional public health officials. |
| 1:29.0 | But amazingly, I couldn't find anything directly on point in the published literature, so I did the study myself, using the information sources I had at hand. |
| 1:37.0 | As I confessed to Toby in the interview you're going to hear, I was apprehensive about the response, since my academic technical background as a scientist is in computer modeling fluid dynamics and thermodynamics and not public health. |
| 1:50.0 | But to my pleasant surprise, the article's been well received. It's even been tweeted out appreciatively by real live epidemiologist. |
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