{"id":36313,"date":"2018-07-31T08:11:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T13:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36313"},"modified":"2018-07-31T08:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T13:11:48","slug":"john-barry-the-pandemic-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36313","title":{"rendered":"John Barry: The Pandemic Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"article-photo\">\n<div class=\"emvideo emvideo-video emvideo-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"media-youtube-html5-2\" class=\"media-youtube-html5\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GdNompc5CZY?version=3&amp;autohide=1&amp;fs=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;wmode=transparent&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"292\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-type-text field-field-article-photo-caption\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item odd\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-details\">\n<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/podcast\/114237\/john-barry-pandemic-risk?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=facebook\">John Barry: The Pandemic Risk<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"article-lede\">\n<div class=\"field field-type-text field-field-lede\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item odd\"><strong>How big a threat is it? How much should we worry?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content clearfix\">\n<p>As far as existential threats to the human species go, pandemics rank near the top of the list.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the probability of an agressive, highly-fatal outbreak occuring soon? Is it high enough to worry about?<\/p>\n<p>And if one occurs, what can\/should we do to protect ourselves and our loved ones?<\/p>\n<p>To address these questions, we interview John M. Barry, author of the award-winning New York Times best-seller\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0143036491\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=peakprosp-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0143036491&amp;linkId=eabef73526f9d617be799a761544a201\">The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History<\/a>. John\u00a0was the only non-scientist to serve on the US government&#8217;s Infectious Disease Board of Experts and has served on advisory boards for MIT&#8217;s Center for Engineering System Fundamentals and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has consulted on influenza preparedness and response to national security entities, the George W. Bush and Obama White Houses, state governments, and the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>His verdict? The risk of a massively fatal world-wide pandemic like the 1918 Spanish flu is remote, but very real &#8212; and is heightened by the hyper-connectedness of our modern society (i.e., the ease and speed with with people can travel). And our readiness for such an outbreak is woefully lacking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An often-overlooked part of the damage a virulent pandemic can do is its impact on supply chains and the economy.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve got 20 to 30% of your air traffic controllers sick at the same time, what&#8217;s that going to do to your economy?<\/p>\n<p>Most of the power plants in the United States are still coal powered. They get their coal, most of them, from Wyoming. You see these enormous trains \u2013 that&#8217;s a highly skilled position, the engineers who move those trains which are a mile and a half long. Suppose they&#8217;re out. You&#8217;re not going to have power in many of the power plants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Barry: The Pandemic Risk How big a threat is it? How much should we worry? As far as existential threats to the human species go, pandemics rank near the top of the list. What&#8217;s the probability of an agressive, highly-fatal outbreak occuring soon? Is it high enough to worry about? And if one occurs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9860,1697,21039,11955,21037,21040,607,21038,1346,3854,744,21041],"class_list":["post-36313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-adam-taggart","tag-flu","tag-infectious-disease","tag-influenza","tag-john-barry","tag-john-m-barry","tag-pandemic","tag-pandemic-risk","tag-plague","tag-public-health","tag-spanish-flu","tag-the-great-influenza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36314,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36313\/revisions\/36314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}