Tegan
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763 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Tegan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're contained and maybe that helps more with tracing and with isolation.
And understandably, I think we're all a bit scarred from COVID to one extent or another, but it also really brings to mind those early days of that pandemic where there's so many factors that we don't understand.
And depending on where this virus falls on various spectrums, like how infectious is it?
Does it transmit from human to human?
How long is the incubation period?
All of those things, depending on where it drops on that spectrum, has really big downstream effects.
I know that, Norman, you predicted back in the 90s a potential hantavirus pandemic.
What was this based on?
So now people are being repatriated back to their home countries, including here to Australia and to New Zealand.
They're going to go into 42 days of quarantine, a really long time, but it actually kind of brings us back to the original meaning of the word quarantine.
The thing with this outbreak is it's caused serious enough disease that three people have lost their lives and we shouldn't lose sight of that.
And I think it reminds us of our vulnerability to diseases and that we can't always predict where they're going to come from.
What does this episode tell us about our ongoing risk of epidemics and pandemics in general?
Okay, so Norman, one of the things that you and I got accused of during the coronavirus pandemic was fear-mongering.
And I wonder where we can sort of place this in terms of being informed, being alert but not alarmed.
Help me put some context around this.
Well, that has been a little special bonus episode for you.
We'll be back with a normal episode of What's That Rash on Wednesday.
We are going to be talking about muscle training, so make sure you don't miss that.
We've got Pettipolly next from Tegan.
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