The 'moronic' variant
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Christmas. Usually heralded by snow on the ground, Christmas trees and Mariah Carey. And, it seems, a new Covid-19 variant. On this week's podcast, columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan weigh in on the latest developments and tell us why they're confident festivities mustn't take a hit, despite some scientists acting as if the UK is in the eye of the pandemic storm.
Making her second trip to Planet Normal is revered Oxford University epidemiologist Professor Sunetra Gupta, who tells our co-pilots why we are ‘overplaying’ the hype around the new variant, whilst ‘undervaluing’ the power of natural immunity. And immediately Allison's blood pressure drops.
Plus our co-pilots unveil a surprising Planet Normal hero of the week.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | Omicron. |
| 0:11.0 | Oh, Macron, which is the little known Irish younger brother |
| 0:15.0 | of the French president. |
| 0:16.0 | Thought you'd like that. |
| 0:17.0 | Or... |
| 0:18.0 | An acronym of which is Moronic. |
| 0:20.0 | Moronic. |
| 0:21.0 | Should we be panicking, though? |
| 0:24.0 | We should never have been panicking. |
| 0:26.0 | We should have tried to take a measured and sensible approach. |
| 0:29.0 | To this whole problem. |
| 0:31.0 | I think I may have been a tad overoptimistic about the new rational turn |
| 0:35.0 | that our government had taken. |
| 0:37.0 | One. |
| 0:39.0 | We have the top. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-ov podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello. |
| 0:49.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
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