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Best Case vs Worst Case Pandemic Scenarios
from #189 - Welcome To The Show, Hillary | The Tim Dillon Show · #189
2 min
He riffs on lockdowns, travel bans, civil unrest, and compares the unfolding pandemic to Stephen King's The Stand, which his father showed him as a child and predicted would come true.
- Tim worries the media is hyping up the pandemic and it might just be a flu affecting only immunocompromised people.
- His best-case scenario: lockdowns, travel bans, school closings, and civil unrest within two to three months, escalating into chaos like Stephen King's The Stand.
- Tim recalls his father showing him The Stand miniseries as a child and predicting it would happen, which he found exciting.
- He admits getting excited whenever a new pandemic threat emerges—SARS, avian flu, swine flu—but they always turn out to be nothing.
- Tim clarifies he doesn't want people to die, only wants them trapped indoors integrated into darkness rather than going outside.
- He argues he needs listeners alive, but the real enemy is outside where diseases are.