Ross Douthat
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Um and that's part of it too, right?
It's not for the most part a disease that kills people, so there's less urgency around it.
But yeah, the whole thing has this horror movie feel.
The nice young couple moves to the beautiful small town and oops, it turns out that every year they sacrifice one person to the tick gods, right?
Like it's it's
It's that kind of vibe.
And it's a very strange thing to come into.
And it has definitely gotten worse.
Lyme was a bit of a shadow over the state in the eighties and nineteen nineties.
But the number of cases has just gone way, way up.
And that I think explains why my wife and I were less aware of it than we should have been.
Like I remember my mother when we bought this house being like, Ah, Ross, you got a lot of deer here.
Got kids, are you sure about this?
And I was sort of dismissive.
And I think had we grown up in Connecticut now instead of in the eighties and early nineties, we would have been less naive about the possibility that something could go quite wrong.
Yeah, suburbanization is the key force.
So basically you have a disease that's in the deep woods, and then the suburbs divide up deer habitat.
They bring not just deer, but other woodland creatures that carry these ticks into contact with human beings on a much larger scale than you would have had in like nineteen twenty.
And so boom, you've got an actual epidemic.
And
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