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Ep. 46 - The Philosophy of a Pandemic with Balkan Devlen and David Manheim
Pod Bless Canada
English - March 27, 2020 20:08 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MB - ★★★ - 2 ratingsNews canada canadian politics domestic policy foreign policy indigenous affairs energy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this latest of episode of Pod Bless Canada, MLI Senior Fellow Balkan Devlen was joined by David Manheim, a post-doc at the University of Haifa in the Health and Risk Communication Research Center. Manheim has done extensive work in terms of modeling risk across a wide variety of domains. Both he and Devlen are superforecasters with the Good Judgement project, currently forecasting global spread and impact of COVID-19.
In their discussion, Devlen and Manheim reflect on existential risks, philosophy, pandemics with a particular eye toward the pandemic the world is currently experiencing: COVID-19. They reflect on the current actions taken by governments, how long the pandemic might last, and what advice they have for policy-makers navigating this challenging crisis.