S1E49 / Lessons from the Zombie Apocalypse / Coltan Scrivner, David Schnieder, Robert Wonser

EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

KFF Health News and Just Human Productions

Society & Culture, #Eradication, Medicine, #Covid, Science, Life Sciences, #Sarscov2, Documentary, #Coronavirus, #Covid19, Health & Fitness, #Smallpox

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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"We have this long history of seeking personal and individual solutions to public problems and I think the zombie films highlight that." - Robert Wonser From Night of the Living Dead, to 28 Days Later, and World War Z, pandemics have always been at the heart of zombie movies. In this Halloween edition of Epidemic, we find out what these films get right and wrong about the current coronavirus pandemic, what they can teach us about epidemiology, and how fans of horror movies are experiencing the pandemic differently than the rest of us. This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you. #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

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0:00.0	So for people who are having a really hard time with the pandemic for one reason or another. Maybe they're
0:15.4	very anxious or they're lonely. Should clinical psychologists be prescribing
0:20.5	horror films to them? Prescribing Stephen King for the pandemic. Welcome back to Epidemic, the podcast about the science, public health and
0:40.9	social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
0:44.0	I'm your host Dr. Saline Gounder. In the U.S. military developed a special training plan to confront an unprecedented threat.
1:08.0	This document contains information affecting the national defense of the United States within the meaning of the espionage laws.
1:18.0	The transmission or revelation of information contained herein in any manner to an unauthorized person is
1:24.6	prohibited by law. This plan is now unclassified and was released to the public in
1:29.5	2011. Its name, Con Plan 888.
1:35.0	This plan fulfills fictional contingency planning guidance for U.S. Strategic Command to develop a
1:44.3	comprehensive level three plan to undertake military operations to preserve
1:48.8	non-Zombi humans from threats posed by a zombie horde.
1:53.0	zombies.
1:54.0	The military came up with a plan to protect the nation from zombies.
1:59.0	The objective of the plan is threefold.
2:01.0	One, establish and maintain a vigilant defensive condition aimed
2:06.4	to protecting humankind from zombies. Two, if necessary, conduct operations that will, if directed, eradicate zombie threats to human safety.
2:17.0	Three, aid civil authorities in maintaining law and order and restoring basic services
2:23.0	during and after a zombie attack.
2:27.8	The plan covers pathogenic zombies,
2:30.5	radiation zombies, space zombies, even chicken zombies. But this wasn't a joke. zombies may not be real, but the military realized the response to a make-believe enemy would be the same as a real threat.
2:52.0	The CDC also has a zombie simulation.
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