54 - Razib Khan - Why We Were So Ill-Equipped for a Pandemic

Razib’s podcast The Insight can be found here: http://insitome.libsyn.com/website; His blog Gene Expression can be found here: https://www.gnxp.com/ You can find the Brown Pundits blog and podcast here: https://www.brownpundits.com/author/razib_k_khan/. Follow Razib on Twitter: @razibkhan Razib Khan’s previous appearance on this podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/09-razib-khan Razib’s article in the City Journal: https://www.city-journal.org/decay-of-the-american-system Further References Nicole Hannah Jones’ commentary (wrongly called “Hannah Nored-Jones” on the show: https://www.nytimes.com/by/nikole-hannah-jones Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wizard of Earthsea (1968) On vaccines: https://www.city-journal.org/coronavirus-vaccine?fbclid=IwAR2AFUjBRxZvguVzCT4hQM4k7WlWO8ta13_sSOygtgkI2L_R2D4Q1VMalck Timestamps 1:21 When and why did Razib become aware that things were going to get serious? 10:06 Why were we so blindsided by this? 13:30 Differences from SARS coronavirus 1 18:04 Our false sense of control 24:14 How our elites are trained and what they think is important. 25:14 Herd immunity 32:37 Are there long-term sequelae from the virus, after recovery? 36:09 Likelihood of having a severe case 38:06 Obesity 39:48 India 41:40 Seasonality and climate 43:41 Uncertainties 48:28 Social and economic effects of lockdown 59:46 Race 1:00:45 The Chinese virus. Trump, the woke, semantics, names 1:13:38 Updating our priorities 1:16:18 Vaccines, mutation rates, virulence 1:19:29 The future; the difficulty of predictions