Something Scary Is Happening In Biolabs - Annie Jacobsen - #1127

“It's equally scary in completely different ways. I think, you know, with nuclear war, the response to that was so many people calling me up and saying like, okay, I read your book, I just want to die instantly”

“Well, I came across... I came across this chart in the DoD that really freaked me out when I was reading, when I was working on nuclear war. And it's like the weapons of mass destruction, WMD, threat spectrum. And of course, nuclear weapons are like at the far end of the worst, most destructive.”

“him, I asked him to tell me he had read nuclear war, my book, nuclear war. And I said, he said, Annie, unlike nuclear war, biological warfare will be deeply nightmarish. It will be the death of government.”

“What's that game? Plague, Plague Inc on mobile. Did you play that? I don't know about this. You don't know about this? Double check. Can you chat GPT for me, Jared, and see if it's called Plague Inc. I'm pretty sure mobile game.”

“That plague, right? So another... I mean, contemporarily, right? Right, right, right. So people who... There's a famous book called the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and an Italian notary. And he writes about... He writes about what it was like at that time. And copies, you know, we have it. We have the translation.”

“it. But the mutated version of Ebola that we're seeing right now in the Congo, ZMAP doesn't work because it's a variant. No reason to believe it's genetically modified. Mother Nature does her own modifications.”