04 - Have you ever seen an armadillo walk? - Andrew Thomas, Vietnam - 8/28/20

Thomas talks to Dave from his family’s home in Hanoi about the importance of contact tracing, the power of collective action to address a public health issue, the bum gun’s roll in preventing toilet paper shortages, the role of government and industry during a global pandemic, politicization of the pandemy in the west, how Vietnam learned from SARS, having a 9 month old newborn, cyber security and economics. We are left wondering if the bum gun is something we should culturally appropriate in the west? Dave closes this episode with a poem, Antibodies With Our Love, inspired by Dr. Osterholm’s poem on the Ousterholm Covid Centre for Infectious Research and Policy IDRAP @ University of Minnesota.