Kyle Harper

But like infectious disease is always kind of like that.

I mean tuberculosis has probably killed more people maybe than any other infectious disease.

It's like this horrible disease.

It's just this –

We don't really understand it.

Now we really don't understand where it came from because it doesn't look like it is an animal host before it has humans.

And it's just a weird disease.

It's just a bacterial pathogen that in the huge world of bacteria, this one is very, very good at hiding.

And so it gets in your chest and it just lurks.

And then it will just waste you away, particularly if you're poor and you're stressed.

And so like –

There's some core principles there, but then it's just like something weird about it.

It's just like this terrible luck that makes it what it is.

And so to me, like there's going to be another pandemic, you know, maybe bird flu, maybe something else.

But like –

It's the real, real outliers and the weird ones that we should maybe worry about a little bit more than we do.

If you want to go to zombies, I'll go there.

You don't have to twist my arm too hard.

But prion diseases or fungal diseases where we don't have nearly the same infrastructure and level of knowledge, biomedical research, as we do for bacterial and viral diseases.

You know, something – if we create the incentive, evolution is going to find some weird ways to exploit it.