Hannah Fry and the Peacock Feather. Part One: The Spooky Coincidence

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In 2018, the UK carried out a simulation exercise to "predict the impact of the next pandemic more accurately than ever before." It was billed as "the biggest science experiment of its kind powered by citizens," and they called it: "THE BBC PANDEMIC." The experiment was commissioned by BBC4, and took the form of a TV documentary called "Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic". First broadcast on 22nd March 2018, and fronted by the trusted and well recognised mathematician Hannah Fry, the publicity for the programme says that Hannah "masterminds the experiment, and adopts the role of PATIENT ZERO by walking the streets of Haslemere in Surrey to launch the outbreak." Haslemere is a small market town in the South of England, and it featured heavily in the documentary as the place the virus was first seeded. The contagion then spread around the UK via a Smart Phone App downloaded by "volunteers" around the UK. Fast forward to February 2020, and in a "spooky coincidence", Haslemere hit the headlines as the location of the UK's Patient Zero for COVID-19...

BBC documentary in full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gge_...

BBC4 Pandemic programme website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/pandemic

The Model behind the documentary: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Source/Credit;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gge_R_eoX0&t=185s

Link to Part 2:
https://rumble.com/v1dbgkj-hannah-fry-and-the-peacock-feather.-part-two-secrets-and-lies.html

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