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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Pandemics - Is There a World Without a Global Immune System?

There's no way we could survive an wide ape outbreak much more than one order of magnitude without a radically improved public health game. Even in the case of natural pandemics, you're still talking about human behavior. Anyone who's putting a bat on top of a pangolon and calling it lunch is teasing out these zeno viruses from the womb of nature. And that's one vector by which they get into our population.

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