355: Opening Up the World of Quarantine with Nicola Twilley
“We gave a talk in Summer 2019 about our quarantine research in Moscow. And at the end of it, we said, ‘You and everyone around you is going to be quarantined, is going to experience quarantine in your lifetimes.’ And we had no idea that later that year, you know, COVID-19 would emerge and we would all be experiencing it.”
In the summer of 2019—before Covid-19 had emerged—author, researcher, and ‘Gastropod’ co-host Nicola Tilley and her husband and co-author Geoff Manaugh told a rapt audience, “You and everyone around you is going to be quarantined, is going to experience quarantine in your lifetimes.” They had just presented their extensive research into quarantine that would ultimately become their new book, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine. The book provides remarkably valuable information and insight into this now all too familiar part of life and its relationship with freedom, governance, and mutual responsibility.
