Hello and welcome to the fifth ever episode of Meanwhile in the Future.

I'm Rose and Five is my favorite number and I'm also your host.

Meanwhile in the Future is a podcast about the Future.

In case you miss the last four episodes,

here's how it works.

We'll start by taking a trip into one particular version

of the future to check out what's going on.

Then we head back to today

to talk to experts about how that future might

actually go down. Got it? Great. This week we're not going very far. We'll

start in 2025. 25.

The CDC announced new plans for bacterial quarantines today,

citing widespread and deadly antibiotic resistant bacteria,

the center says that anyone with an identified bacterial infection

will have to be quarantined for at least 30 days.

Day four. They gave me the books I requested,

but the sanitation process makes the pages smell really weird.

I shouldn't have asked for a handmaid's tail. I had to stop reading it halfway through. Being stuck here in this room, it was just too real, I guess.

Except without the sex part, that wouldn't be sanitary.

And the only thing I get to care about right now is being totally sterile,

waiting for this infection to die. I mean I get it if I leave I'll be a

walking death trap it's just really boring in here. In a move that could open a new legal front in the debate over how antibiotic resistance is handled,

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