Annie Jacobsen

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473 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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Talking Scared · 289 – Annie Jacobsen & Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

Because we know from COVID that voice-verified

that there is no such thing as containing a biological attack to a certain area. voice-verified

We know that once the pathogen is seeded into a population, it spreads and it goes from outbreak to epidemic to pandemic very quickly. voice-verified

You know, two interesting points there. voice-verified

One of the reasons why I looked at the Black Death of the 14th century, and I quote from it often, is because we have contemporary accounts of what it was like from survivors. voice-verified

and more than anything of what happened to the mental state of the people. voice-verified

And it is terrifying. voice-verified

As far as where we are now with science, this is really the philosophical, the kind of grand morality question I ask, that I actually ask in many of my books about science, which is that science, we, apes as we once were, are imbued with this ability to create voice-verified

technological, astonishing advances. voice-verified

And what humans are capable of is incredible. voice-verified

We are capable of creating medical countermeasures like penicillin originally was, like antibiotics, to defeat the plague. voice-verified

That is why plague pandemics have essentially stopped. voice-verified

is owing to the great work of people like Pastor and then scientists that have come since him that are also working on vaccines and countermeasures. voice-verified

And so what a bizarre idea that humans would create something that could essentially extinguish ourselves. voice-verified

And that is truly where we are today. voice-verified

With nuclear weapons and with biological weapons. voice-verified

And if there's any big takeaway from my books, I think it's precisely that for people to be able to think about what that means and what their role in that conundrum actually might be. voice-verified

Well, I actually don't feel despairing, but that has to do with my personality, if you will. voice-verified

I mean, I am just an optimist at heart and I always find information extremely valuable. voice-verified

For example, when there was the hantavirus outbreak in May, and now with the Ebola outbreak in Africa, and you have certain Legionnaire's disease here in the United States, I have an understanding of how pathogens spread, of how human-to-human transmission happens. voice-verified

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