ShortHand: How Likely is a Zombie Apocalypse?
4/28/202628 min
Rage-inducing viruses that spread through bites; a flesh-eating fungus that controls its host like a puppet; deadly pathogens trapped for millennia in Arctic ice… sometimes nature is more gruesome than fiction.
From the Walking Dead to the Last of Us, stories of contagion are never far from our screens. So what are the closest real-life scenarios that could turn our world into a full-on zombie wasteland? (And, what makes insects go on a sex-crazed, amphetamine-fuelled rampage until their literal butts fall off?) This is the ShortHand.
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Hannah Maguire· Host0:41
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Suruthi Bala· Host0:55
Hello, and welcome to us sitting in a room together, which for ages we couldn't do. [laughs] Having quite recently dragged ourselves through the global pandemic, we know how fast and how life-changingly viruses can spread over this little blue dot that we have to live on, and how totally inept governments can be at containing them. So just imagine how entirely fucked we would be if the virus we were fighting