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The Truth about the Americas in 1491 with Charles C. Mann

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Pandemic, Um, Is It a Disaster?

Looking at the history of North America makes this event look completely different to me. One of the reasons that those epidemics were so devastating is that people who had grown up without any idea of communicable diseases was experiencing them. And you're seeing that because now we have so little experience with that. You're seeing really crazy things in our own response to the pandemic that result from a lack of real understanding of how diseases spread.

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