Did Covid change the world more than we realised?

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

It’s been five years since Boris Johnson announced the UK’s first Covid-19 lockdown. How much did that strange time in our recent history change the world we live in today? What lessons have we learned? And what hasn’t gone back to how it was before Covid-19 took hold of our lives? Christina Pagel is a professor of operational research at University College London and a member of Independent SAGE and joins the panel for an important two-part discussion. We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Dorian Lynskey, with Marie Le Conte, and Hannah Fearn. Producer: Chris Jones Audio. Production by: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:53.1	Welcome to Oh God What Now. I'm Doreen Linsky.
0:56.3	On Sunday, it will be exactly five years since the first COVID-19 lockdown confined us to our homes
1:01.2	and forced us to live online like never before.
1:04.4	230,000 people in the UK didn't survive COVID and 7 million worldwide.
1:09.1	So it's a time most of us are eager to forget, but how has
1:11.7	the pandemic changed the world from elections, the economy to everyday life? In this special episode,
1:16.6	we'll be breaking down the legacy of COVID across both halves of the show with our guest,
1:20.4	Professor Christina Pagel. And in the extra bit for supporters, journalist Chris Stokel Walker has used
1:25.5	a freedom of information request to access the chat GPT data of Science Minister Peter Kyle.
1:31.1	Should such data be available and what can it tell us about how politicians think?
1:35.5	Let's meet today's panel. First journalist Hannah Fern. Hi, Hannah. Hello.
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