3 October

“Dr Ryan said developed countries had become “entirely complacent of infectious diseases” and associated them with poorer countries...”If you look at any metric of resilience, the industrial world has not demonstrated a lot of that...” That lack of resilience is accompanied by lunatic conspiracy theories. Inside those rich countries we don’t see quite how like the last days of Rome we are. Ryan also talks about how we try to medicalise pandemics, rather than look at how our own lifestyles create them.