The Next Pandemic
This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler
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🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | caution. The ultimate spicy meatball from Dominoes is hot. Just not stupid hot. It won't earn you |
| 0:05.4 | mythical status or get you a nickname like Mad Dog or Dragon's Breath. It's hot. Good hot. |
| 0:10.8 | The kind of hot that boosts taste nothing else. The ultimate spicy meatball with Siracha |
| 0:15.2 | Drizzle from Dominoes, it will get you fired up. Subject to availability. |
| 0:21.3 | Oh, is that a pumpkin spice latte? No, it's the pumpkin spice latte. |
| 0:26.0 | Starbucks. Obviously. You know, I once got so obsessed with pumpkin spice. I only |
| 0:30.0 | wore orange for a month. Oh, that's nothing. I once got so obsessed I got a pumpkin |
| 0:34.3 | shame into my hair. Oh, yeah? Well, last year I cured outside Starbucks for a week, |
| 0:38.1 | and my tent was a shape of a pumpkin. Well, I'm changing my name to pumpkin spicy. |
| 0:44.8 | The Starbucks original is back. Go all out pumpkin spice. Subject to availability while stocks last. |
| 0:51.2 | Hello, it's Arthur here. I'm sure if you've listened to this podcast before, |
| 0:56.0 | you'll have realised that we're not always offering the most optimistic take on world affairs. |
| 1:01.6 | And in this series, I've shared warnings of a modern day battle on the high seas, |
| 1:06.4 | the threat of aggressive imperialist leaders, a terrifying new arms race as weapons tech gets |
| 1:12.4 | automated. These are all big existential threats that we as individuals can't do much about. |
| 1:20.1 | But one thing I've never particularly worried about myself is my own health. It feels as if |
| 1:25.6 | that's something that I can mostly take personal control of. And then, the other day, |
| 1:32.2 | I was talking to a friend of mine, Professor Christina Pargol. Christina was a prominent member of |
| 1:38.3 | the independent sage group set up during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was there to provide a public |
| 1:44.8 | discourse on the science behind public health decision making. We were talking about what new |
| 1:50.8 | health threats might be on the horizon. On terms of what's coming, |
| 1:57.5 | well, actually, I went on to this website yesterday called Gavi, which is the Global Alliance for |
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