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In The Foothills Of A Pandemic - Yaneer Bar-Yam

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Coronavirus Epidemic

The coronavirus epidemic looks likely to be one of the defining catastrophes of our lifetime. To appreciate why the risk is so grave, you need to viscerally understand the explosive power of exponential growth. Exponential growth does not come naturally to our thinking. Most people aren't psychologically prepared for the accelerating spread of this novel coronavirus. We have no immunity to this. The episode was recorded on Sunday the 8th of March 2020 in Sydney.

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