Annie Jacobsen
speaker
309 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
Annie Jacobsen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You can understand when a mask would be appropriate and when it isn't.
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You know, when the hantavirus outbreak happened, for example, in May, and everyone was all worried about it, well, that was a legitimate fear because there is a strain that is airborne.
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When it proved not to be that airborne strain, you could take different measures.
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People don't know, so they go to an alternative narrative.
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How could you not?
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so i i tie everything to either something has happened in the past or you know things that defense department games out in the future so you have an outbreak at a bsl4 lab in siberia in russia because russia still has a bioweapons program in violation of the treaty very quickly you got airborne you got travelers hunters
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International businessmen in that area of Novosibirsk get on planes and they go to every continent but Antarctica.
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There you have it.
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It's spread.
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And once it's spread, it's too late.
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I show what the Defense Department, what the intelligence community is doing, gangbusters to try to understand what this pathogen is, because until you know what something is, how do you
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try and defeat it.
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And very quickly it arrives in the United States.
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And then I show readers the plans in place that the president has, that the biodefense council has.
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And most interestingly to me was understanding that it's a bureaucratic nightmare, meaning you don't have the defense department in charge who essentially are kind of like go to it, get it done, say what you will about the DOD, but that's what they do.
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You've got HHS,
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You've got CDC who reports to HHS.
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You've got FEMA.
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You've got DHS.
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You've got all these organizations sitting around the White House trying to organize themselves, their thoughts, and their plans.
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