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The Plague Year
- America in the Time of COVID
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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In the 21st century, infectious disease seemed like a nuisance, not like a mortal threat.
Just as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second.
The story starts with the initial moments of COVID's appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph Biden's inauguration in an America ravaged by well over 400,000 deaths - a mortality already some 10 times worse than US combat deaths in the entire Vietnam War.
This is an anguished, furious memorial to a year in which all of America's great strengths - its scientific knowledge, its great civic and intellectual institutions, its spirit of voluntarism and community - were brought low, not by a terrifying new illness alone, but by political incompetence and cynicism on a scale for which there has been no precedent.
With insight, sympathy, clarity and rage, The Plague Year allows the listener to hear the unfolding of this great tragedy, talking with individuals on the front line, bringing together many moving and surprising stories and painting a devastating picture of a country literally and fatally misled.
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- 05-07-21
A distinct view of the last sixteen months
There is such detail on so many people that did so much to get us back to normal but did not get mentioned in the news. Quiet, clever folks that become unlikely heroes of our time.
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