What Happened When a Chinese Government Shuts China Down?

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

i was working day and night, beginning middle of january, to study what might be happening in china. And i did some basic calculations that every competent epidemiologist could do. It was clear as day it was going to be a serious respiratory pendemic. In fact, the president was briefed and chose to ignore it. I think this is a grave dereliction of duty,. The central function of the government is to kp the citizenry safe. That's not a winning electoral position to be in. We had clues that the vaccines would work by december. So people started geting vaccinated after the election. But i think he might have won the election for him if he had

Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about the lessons of the COVID pandemic. They discuss our failures to coordinate an effective response, the politics surrounding vaccination, vaccine efficacy, vaccine safety, how to think about scientific controversies, the epidemiology of excess deaths, transmission among the vaccinated, natural immunity, selection pressures and new variants, the failure of institutions, the lab-leak hypothesis, the efficacy of lockdowns, vaccine mandates, boosters, what would happen in a worse pandemic, and other topics.

If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.

Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.