Episode 2: COVID-19

It's here. The inescapable inevitability. You can't run. You can't hide. That's right, this week we're tackling the bear that is COVID-19. Unless you're an extraterrestrial picking up this transmission on your space-pod slinger I don't need to introduce you to the pandemic that flipped 2020 upside down. Everyone has heard about it. And when everyone hears, everyone talks. And considering there's a small fraction of the population that's actually qualified to speak knowledgably on virology, you know there's a mother load of misinformation out there.  Buckle in folks, it's gonna be like eating your ice cream cone with a slingshot: shocking, a little painful and oh so tasty.   

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