Hannah Fry

We needed somewhere to start our pretend pandemic and we needed somebody to start it.

So what we did is we kind of looked at a map of the UK and we were like, right, where is it most likely to start?

If we get another pandemic, where is it most likely to start?

And we were like, right, it's probably going to be somewhere in the southeast of the UK, probably a commuter town of London where there's millions and millions of people who live.

You sort of want somewhere that is near to the main airports, maybe between Gatwick and Heathrow, maybe somewhere that's nearer to the south coast.

So it could potentially have come up through that way.

So we picked this little town of Hazelmere in Surrey, and it's sort of like the Goldilocks town, right?

It's not too big, it's not too small, it's close to all the airports and so on.

It's got this really beautiful high street, it's got this really strong sense of community.

It's basically exactly the sort of place that you would want to destroy with an imaginary pandemic, you know?

Right, right.

That kind of place.

So the people who were in Hazelmere, they would get this special version of this app

that would have this incredibly fine grain detail.

So everywhere else it was, you know, within, I think we did a hundred meters square.

The app would collect your data of where you were within a hundred meters square.

But in Hazelmere in Surrey, it was like extremely, extremely detailed.

So we set off this whole thing.

We used the health center in Hazelmere.

It was all like, you know, this, this big thing and,