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What We Owe the Dead
Season 5 Episode 581
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GEORGE:
The Bills of Mortality—weekly printed tallies—turned death into public information, something people watched like weather. (pm…
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How Plague Trained Us
Season 5 Episode 580
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GEORGE:
Today: How Plague Trained Us
How plague trained Elizabethan culture—audiences included—
toward certain fears and reflexes…
and ho…
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Plague Habits of Mind
Season 5 Episode 579
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GEORGE:
Now, When I say “habits of mind,” I mean the reflexes that become automatic:
how you interpret a cough
how you feel about crowds…
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The Audience of Survivors
Season 5 Episode 578
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GEORGE:
In this series we’ve treated plague as a character.
We’ve treated fear as a character.
We’ve treated rumor, policy, numbers—char…
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Social Anxiety
Season 5 Episode 576
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After the Plague
Season 5 Episode 577
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WILL:
When the theatre reopened, the audience came in carrying private funerals.
They had lost parents, children, friends, patrons, riv…
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Trust and Betrayal
Season 5 Episode 576
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GEORGE:
Today: trust and betrayal—
why people cling to rumors, why institutions lose credibility,
and why truth-telling has to be humane…
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The Social Contract
Season 5 Episode 575
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GEORGE:
Today: the social contract.
Who bears the risk, who gets protected, who gets blamed, and who gets forgotten—
in plague-time Engl…
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Numbers and Narratives
Season 5 Episode 574
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GEORGE:
Today: Bills of Mortality in plague London—
and COVID dashboards in our century.
How counting the dead can help a society tell t…
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Cures, Quacks, and Miracles
Season 5 Episode 573
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GEORGE (quiet):
Now When people get scared, they don’t only ask, “What is happening?”
They ask, “What can I do?”
And if the honest answe…
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