Sep 9, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 14 segments
Could the next pandemic kill ten percent of humanity, and what would it take to stop it? JD explores this with Grace Braithwaite…
Grace BraithwaiteGuestJDHostYes.
You're the first I've met doing-
... field building in biosecurity.
Um, there's loads of part-time people out there that are doing great things.
That's one thing we'll talk about is how do folks-
... enter a career into field building for something as important as biosecurity.
But I, I, I wanna drill into like the importance of biosecurity because-
... uh, it can get kinda technical and jargony quickly, but at the end of the day, these are human lives we're talking about and people-
Um, can- And it, it seems like COVID was sort of just a bad dream, right?
But when you talk about how bad pandemics can get, it sounds like we still have a nightmare waiting for us if we're not ready.
Um, you know, there's some experts say there's some chance, and you know the research better than I, there's some chance that by the end of the century 10% or more of humanity would die from some pandemic.
Yes.
You're the first I've met doing-
... field building in biosecurity.
Um, there's loads of part-time people out there that are doing great things.
That's one thing we'll talk about is how do folks-
... enter a career into field building for something as important as biosecurity.
But I, I, I wanna drill into like the importance of biosecurity because-
... uh, it can get kinda technical and jargony quickly, but at the end of the day, these are human lives we're talking about and people-
Um, can- And it, it seems like COVID was sort of just a bad dream, right?
But when you talk about how bad pandemics can get, it sounds like we still have a nightmare waiting for us if we're not ready.
Um, you know, there's some experts say there's some chance, and you know the research better than I, there's some chance that by the end of the century 10% or more of humanity would die from some pandemic.
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