Annie Jacobsen
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473 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Annie Jacobsen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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is super important to have something become an epidemic or a pandemic.
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I can sort of better advise myself and my family, if you will.
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I can keep a handle on the threat level.
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And I think people in general, imbued with a little bit of information, embodied with a little information, are always better off.
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It sort of quells the panic.
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But
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Your question was, what's scarier?
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They are very different animals, but they are both existential threats.
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You could say nuclear war isn't going to happen because we have had nuclear weapons for almost 80, we've had them for 80 years.
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The rest of the world has followed along.
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And deterrence, which is this idea that, you know, we're not going to have a nuclear war because we have ours.
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pointed at yours and mutual assured destruction would kill all of us.
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No one's crazy enough.
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You can argue, and many people do, that that is deterrence will hold.
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We just, when you're considering biological war a scenario, you must have in the back of your mind that the COVID pandemic happened a little over five years ago.
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We all lived through it.
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COVID had a case fatality rate of 1%.
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It was airborne.
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That's the big terrifying factor to create a pandemic.
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It almost certainly has to be airborne.
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