All statements about COVID-19 pandemic

246 statements about COVID-19 pandemic in 104 videos, by upload date.

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2020

2020-03-10 · A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video — John has been singing a version of a Lizzo song in his head with the lyrics 'the world doesn't need your coronavirus hot take'. (playful) — 00:00:00
2020-03-13 · The Anxious Scroll — The description says we know more testing is needed and that handwashing, social distancing and ending large events slow spread, protecting the vulnerable and the healthcare system, but much is unknown. — video description
2020-03-13 · The Anxious Scroll — Hank called two people he rarely phones; they talked some about COVID-19 but also about bread, Star Wars, work and coffee, the normal stuff, and it was lovely. — 00:00:50
2020-03-17 · together. — John notes 'together' comes from 'to gather', and says one surreal and terrifying facet of the COVID-19 pandemic is that suddenly many people cannot gather. — 00:00:58
2020-03-17 · together. — John says communities have changed suddenly: children out of school, businesses closed, empty shelves, many job losses, and no gathering in stadiums, offices, classes or places of worship. — 00:00:58
2020-03-17 · together. — John says it is now clear the pandemic will put many people at risk of serious illness and death. — 00:01:56
2020-03-20 · The Sudden Obliteration of Expectation — recommendation: The description recommends an article by Aaron Carroll on how to handle the coronavirus as very good. — video description
2020-03-20 · The Sudden Obliteration of Expectation — Hank says getting diagnosed and coming to terms with a chronic illness feels similar to what is happening now: first something wrong, then a better-understood problem, now a deluge of uncertainties. — 00:08:42
2020-03-20 · The Sudden Obliteration of Expectation — Hank says we will eventually reach a new normal and stability, though it will take each of us and all of us a long time to understand it. — 00:09:27
2020-03-31 · Let's take a walk. — John: In a reply to a struggling high school student, John says this will end and we will get through it. — creator comment
2020-04-03 · 11 Little Tips for Better Video Chat (For Teachers...and Everybody Else) — Hank says he didn't foresee that these channels and others like The Art Assignment, Healthcare Triage and SciShow Kids would suddenly become more useful during a pandemic, since he didn't think there would be one. — 00:00:12
2020-04-10 · Things I'm Finding Encouraging — Hank says the economic fallout is going to hit very unevenly. — 00:02:40
2020-04-10 · Things I'm Finding Encouraging — Hank worries that at a moment that calls for international cooperation, the pandemic will make us even more nationalistic. (hedged) — 00:02:45
2020-04-10 · Things I'm Finding Encouraging — Hank worries that later, dealing with the repercussions, messages that it wasn't as bad as experts said will work. (hedged) — 00:02:53
2020-04-10 · Things I'm Finding Encouraging — announcement: Hank announces a weekly, roughly 20-minute podcast, COVID Sucks, People Don't, talking with people trying to make things better, a project he started out of his own need. (hedged) — 00:03:32
2020-04-10 · Things I'm Finding Encouraging — Hank: The first episode interviews a man who this week (week of 6 April 2020) got his first injection of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, one of 45 people in that trial, and surprisingly chill about it. — 00:03:40
2020-04-28 · get your game on — John says losing sports is one of the least important losses of this historical moment, and sports don't matter, but he misses the luxury of caring about things that don't matter. — 00:00:00
2020-04-28 · get your game on — John says the uncertainty he lives with now is horrible, but the uncertainty before a live sporting event is bearable or exciting precisely because sports don't matter on that scale. — 00:02:26
2020-05-19 · Didn't Make Sense Not to Live for Fun — recommendation: In a comment John points viewers asking about Partners in Health's COVID-19 response in Sierra Leone to a podcast with regular updates and interviews with healthcare workers. — creator comment
2020-05-26 · you'll never know — John says we don't know if surviving COVID-19 gives long-term immunity, how effective mitigation strategies are, or how many people have had or died of it. — 00:02:26
2020-05-26 · you'll never know — John says COVID-19 deaths are tracked better, but the statistics are still really incomplete, so we don't know most of what we need to know. — 00:02:55
2020-05-26 · you'll never know — John says there have been many COVID-19 failures: of preparation, of political leadership, and of the systems that distribute information, goods and services. — 00:02:55
2020-05-26 · you'll never know — John argues expertise hasn't failed: we are watching in real time how it happens, as our species learns a new virus's properties and then progressively better containment strategies. — 00:02:55
2020-05-26 · you'll never know — John says that over time, through shared expertise, we will get better at treating and preventing COVID-19, until someone writes a book about what we didn't know but found out. — 00:03:24
2020-06-30 · i like it — John: Hank didn't foresee a pandemic but saw something coming; the book helped John see contemporary life as more than merely foolish, if less than merely beautiful. — 00:01:12
2020-06-30 · i like it — John: Instead Liverpool won the league after a three-month pandemic break, and John watched alone in his basement, the game played in an eerily empty stadium. — 00:03:04
2020-07-07 · You're a Rock Star — Delfina V. Barbiero (quoted): Delfina V. Barbiero's USA Today review calls the book's world grounded in reality, written before the pandemic yet with many parallels, and a hopeful read. — 00:00:00
2020-07-14 · The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. — John: The US is experiencing an explosion of new COVID-19 cases even as many other countries make serious progress against the pandemic. — 00:00:58
2020-07-14 · The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. — John: Last week (week of 6 July 2020) Indiana, population under 7 million, had more new COVID cases and deaths than Germany, population over 83 million. — 00:00:58
2020-07-14 · The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. — John says Indiana is one of the better US states COVID-wise. — 00:01:27
2020-07-14 · The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. — John finds it frustrating and heartbreaking to see so much unnecessary suffering and death caused by the failure of US political and public health systems; he feels overwhelmed and powerless. — 00:01:27
2020-07-14 · The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. — John: The last 12 weeks have been the deadliest 12-week period in the US in many decades, yet people still call it a hoax. — 00:01:27
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John's morning routine: wake up, dress, brush his teeth and doomscroll through COVID news for 45 minutes; he wouldn't recommend it. (playful) — 00:00:29
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: The pandemic challenges health systems everywhere: Koidu Government Hospital's emergency department closed for a time after health workers caught the virus and others had to self-isolate, leaving no replacements. — 00:01:28
2020-07-31 · Your Brain Gets Smart, but Your Head Gets Dumb — Hank says higher education is the victim of three things: decades of hubris raising prices to compete, a pandemic that will decrease education's value, and an administration that doesn't care. — 00:02:23
2020-08-11 · never get bored — John: Asked in comments, John calls Smash Mouth's August 2020 live concert in South Dakota idiotic and harmful amid the worst pandemic in over a century and tells its lead singer to stay home. — creator comment
2020-08-11 · never get bored — John: Wind reminds John that the Earth holds a lot of air: while sharing air in the narrowest sense is now very dangerous, sharing air in the largest sense remains essential. — 00:00:47
2020-08-11 · never get bored — recommendation: John has found Planet Money really helpful for understanding the knock-on effects of the pandemic. — 00:02:00
2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — John: After a stressful week, John says he has a long-term plan to draw 170,000 or so circles. — 00:00:00
2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — In a comment John explains the number: at least 170,000 Americans had died of COVID-19 as of the day before. — creator comment
2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — In a comment John says the video ends on circle 589 because 589 people in the US died of COVID-19 the day before. — creator comment
2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — John: In comments John updates that he has reached 3,400 circles and may livestream his progress; he counts in groups of 100, switching pens and making a tally mark each time. — creator comment
2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — In a comment John says he thinks he will then make an artwork with the death count since 8/16, then another, and so on until it is over. (speculative) — creator comment
2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — John: Comparisons help some, but large numbers stay hard to contextualize, so John is making the circles to learn how to count to 170,000; this is circle 589. — 00:03:24
2020-08-21 · The Water's Getting Warm — In the description Hank says humans are hyper-adaptable problem-solving machines and long term we've got this, though there will be a lot of bad along the way. — video description
2020-08-21 · The Water's Getting Warm — Hank: If that is true, Hank tells John, we now have a second such problem, the pandemic, which we could have done without. (playful) — 00:00:29
2020-08-21 · The Water's Getting Warm — Hank hated the early talk that COVID would be a positive for the environment. — 00:00:29
2020-08-21 · The Water's Getting Warm — Hank: So every year we don't tackle climate change, we incur the costs of about one half to one COVID epidemic. — 00:01:44
2020-08-21 · The Water's Getting Warm — Hank: No one knows the end result, but Hank finds it easy to imagine a fairly significant period of slow or even declining economic growth. (hedged) — 00:01:44
2020-08-21 · The Water's Getting Warm — Hank: Meanwhile we won't be focused on climate change, understandably, and won't have the resources we otherwise would have had to free ourselves from the carbon economy. — 00:02:14
2020-08-21 · The Water's Getting Warm — Hank: There are some standout 'crap faces', but we don't know, and may never know, the ultimate impact of their terrible behavior. (playful, unsure) — 00:02:43
2020-08-25 · Somebody once told me… — In a comment John says he has drawn 12,000 circles so far, and it has been very moving to see so many viewers also take up drawing circles. — video description
2020-09-01 · get the show on — John shows his circles: 17,000 drawn so far in his attempt to understand the number 170,000, perhaps enough to freak out YouTube's compression, yet only 10% of the total. — 00:02:26
2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — Hank says they began the idea on April 21, 2020, as everyone was getting used to a big deal changing their lives for a long time. — 00:00:32
2020-10-05 · Thank God It's Over and PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!!!!! — announcement: John: The Pizzamas items are sold only during this Pizzamas, and all profits and royalties go to charity to reduce child and maternal mortality, plus international COVID relief for a couple of items. — 00:00:29
2020-10-05 · Thank God It's Over and PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!!!!! — announcement: John unboxes this year's (2020) items, starting with Circles Pizza John, which combines two of his favorite things, drawing tiny circles and having a mustache, then shirts, a hoodie, a tote, socks, pins, wrapping paper. (playful) — 00:00:29
2020-10-05 · Thank God It's Over and PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!!!!! — announcement: John says it wouldn't be 2020 without a Pizza John mask, joking that wearing it makes people keep their distance. (playful) — 00:02:28
2020-10-07 (said on 2020-10-06, implied) · The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers — John loves seeing people draw circles in response to his circle drawings; a Pizzamas t-shirt is such a drawing, made by a nerdfighter named Kimmy. — 00:01:56
2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle — John: On 5 October 2020, John predicts that US newly diagnosed COVID cases the day before upload were higher than a week earlier, probably by around 10 to 12%. (hedged) — 00:00:58
2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle — John notes the main news on the morning he films: the US President has been hospitalized for COVID, and many people close to him caught it after indoor maskless gatherings. — 00:01:56
2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! — Hank reports US new COVID cases rose week to week from 41,601 to 45,791, almost exactly 10%, so John's prediction was a win. — 00:00:29
2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! — Hank: Because of COVID a virtual town hall debate was planned; Donald Trump dropped out, Joe Biden decided to do the town hall alone, then Trump scheduled a different town hall. — 00:01:28
2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! — Hank says John was right: the President's COVID hospitalization is somehow no longer a big deal in our minds. — 00:01:57
2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! — Hank: Instead, Hank says sarcastically, the vital topic now is Congress ramming through a Supreme Court justice rather than thinking about COVID relief. (playful) — 00:01:57
2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! — Hank disagrees with John that the pandemic was an unknown unknown: it was a known unknown, something we knew could happen. — 00:02:26
2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John finds Biden's plans for tackling the COVID pandemic far more convincing than Trump's. — 00:01:56
2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John says that for the first time in over 120 years the Republican Party released no new platform this election cycle, no plan on issues from taxation to COVID. — 00:02:26
2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John rejects that idea of governance: we will not us-versus-them our way out of COVID, climate change or anything else. — 00:02:55
2020-10-30 · Four Years Ago — Hank is very worried about the election, but says it will not end the pandemic, injustice and inequality, conspiracy theory, hyper-partisanship, or people's fear, anxiety and anger. — 00:03:05
2020-11-06 (said on 2020-11-05, implied) · Just Some Election Thoughts… — Hank says the rift, crafted over decades and deeper than many of its crafters hoped, was never going to be filled in one election; his hope that it would was faulty. — 00:01:27
2020-11-10 · On Immunity, Inoculation, and Individuals — John hopes a new vaccine is coming and says that, if it is, we should build not a statue of one person but monuments to the open cooperation of thousands that achieves shared immunity. — 00:03:24
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — announcement: John: Despite COVID, groundbreaking on the Maternal Center of Excellence is still planned for April 2021, the original date, a credit to PIH and Sierra Leone's government. — 00:01:56
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John expected pandemic stresses to reduce donations, but they have risen every month, which he finds encouraging. — 00:05:42
2020-11-20 · Would I Take a COVID Vaccine? — Hank says yes, he would take a COVID vaccine. — 00:00:00
2020-11-20 · Would I Take a COVID Vaccine? — Hank lists absurd things he would do for a COVID vaccine, from spending 15 hours in a Target to eating a blenderized Happy Meal. (playful) — 00:00:00
2020-11-20 · Would I Take a COVID Vaccine? — Hank: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and others have had really promising results in their phase three COVID vaccine trials. — 00:00:00
2020-11-20 · Would I Take a COVID Vaccine? — The description says that with vaccines to be distributed within 30 days (by 20 December 2020), staying home and wearing masks is even more valuable: we are now buying time for a visible goal. — video description
2020-11-20 · Would I Take a COVID Vaccine? — Hank: It is unknown how long the vaccines last, and that won't be known for a pretty long time. — 00:01:01
2020-11-20 · Would I Take a COVID Vaccine? — announcement: Hank will line up immediately to get the vaccine whenever he is allowed. — 00:01:01
2020-11-20 · Would I Take a COVID Vaccine? — Hank wants the vaccine because he knows it will be safe, and certainly much safer than getting COVID. — 00:01:59
2020-11-20 · Would I Take a COVID Vaccine? — Hank: Avoiding COVID protects others, since every infected person becomes a vector; masks, distancing and vaccines keep hospital beds free for everyone. — 00:01:59
2020-11-24 · personal risk · societal risk — John: In the US a 75-year-old with COVID-19 has well over a 90% chance of surviving; at John's age, even with some pre-existing conditions, over 98%. — 00:00:00
2020-11-24 · personal risk · societal risk — John: COVID doesn't only kill: it can also cause severe illness and long-term health complications. — 00:00:29
2020-11-24 · personal risk · societal risk — John: Sweden took far fewer public health measures than Norway and has a COVID death rate over 10 times higher, yet its economy has suffered more. — 00:01:56
2020-11-24 · personal risk · societal risk — John: Uncontrolled COVID spread overwhelms health systems, as is happening now, so people die of normally survivable problems; this strain is why societal risk is so high. — 00:02:26
2020-11-24 · personal risk · societal risk — John: COVID killed over 10,000 Americans last week (week of 16 November 2020). — 00:03:24
2020-11-24 · personal risk · societal risk — John: Safe and effective COVID vaccines are coming. — 00:03:24

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2021

2021-01-15 · Influencers and Insurrectionists — Hank: Ways to feel you matter often include white supremacy, or believing you help bring down a cabal of child murderers or understand a 5G-COVID link, especially when posts get engagement. — 00:02:56
2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — announcement: John apologizes that some perks from the last P4A still havent gone out: the all-volunteer operation ships slowly and COVID hurt manufacturing and shipping; he thinks they have it figured out and it will be better this year (2021). — 00:00:58
2021-02-02 · I Predicted the Pandemic (over and over and over again) — recommendation: John recommends Melinda and Bill Gates's annual letter, which articulates things about COVID he hadn't seen written so clearly before. — 00:00:58
2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — John: Living in this strange and extremely difficult time, John doesn't know what it means, how we will look back on it, or when. (unsure) — 00:01:35
2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — John: For the first time in John's life everyone knows what 'it' refers to; it is hard, a grind, isolating and exhausting, and also temporary. — 00:01:56
2021-02-23 · A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life — In a comment John says the challenge he set himself this week (week of 22 February 2021) was to make a video about the pandemic that is not about the pandemic. — creator comment
2021-02-23 · A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life — John makes drawings obsessively, like his drawing of 17,000 circles, or rather 17,000 failed attempts at circles. — 00:01:56
2021-03-02 · What's Not in the Frame — John: A family member of John's recently had COVID, which was very scary, but he did not want to talk about it in his videos. — 00:00:58
2021-03-09 · Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing — John: Almost all of John's conversations over the last year have been about the pandemic or shaped by it; it is essential to the geometry of every conversation. — 00:00:00
2021-03-19 · How Will Post Pandemic Behavior Change? — Hank has just gotten his first vaccine shot, is feeling good, and wonders what pandemic behaviors to keep. — 00:00:00
2021-03-19 · How Will Post Pandemic Behavior Change? — Hank: Every activity has built-in switching costs; we paid many to switch to pandemic life, much of it now seems normal, and Hank wants some changes undone and some kept. — 00:00:30
2021-03-19 · How Will Post Pandemic Behavior Change? — Hank would like never to travel for business again, which has been nice this year (2021), but he will. — 00:01:00
2021-03-19 · How Will Post Pandemic Behavior Change? — announcement: Hank: With possibly an overabundance of hope, Hank has made a personal post-COVID behavior change alignment chart. (playful) — 00:01:00
2021-03-19 · How Will Post Pandemic Behavior Change? — Hank: Among things Hank wants back that will definitely happen is hugging people other than his wife and son. — 00:01:00
2021-03-19 · How Will Post Pandemic Behavior Change? — Hank: Zoom calls with old friends, begun because of the pandemic, are something Hank would like to keep but is not sure they will keep up. (hedged) — 00:01:28
2021-03-19 · How Will Post Pandemic Behavior Change? — Hank wants to feel safe around strangers as he used to but may not be able to; right now he would be uncomfortable in a big crowded room. (hedged) — 00:01:28
2021-03-19 · How Will Post Pandemic Behavior Change? — Hank kind of wants to see a movie, but not that badly; he will go to movies again, though a four-year-old complicates it. (playful) — 00:01:57
2021-03-19 · How Will Post Pandemic Behavior Change? — Hank wants to keep doing more telemedicine and thinks he will, though he is not sure his doctor will offer it; it has been great. (hedged) — 00:01:57
2021-03-19 · How Will Post Pandemic Behavior Change? — Hank: Many of Hank's favorite restaurants started delivering, and he likes a night in without dishes or going anywhere with a four-year-old. — 00:02:44
2021-03-26 · Why I'm Worried about 2021 — Hank: Within the next few months, Hank says, mask mandates will be lifted even where governors aren't doing political signaling to their base. — 00:00:29
2021-03-26 · Why I'm Worried about 2021 — Hank worries this stage of the pandemic will be stressful: what behavior is OK when vaccinated or when most are, who decides, and how we will judge each other. — 00:00:29
2021-03-26 · Why I'm Worried about 2021 — Hank: COVID isn't going away, maybe ever, but Hank says it will be much less of a problem where lots of people get vaccinated. (hedged) — 00:01:27
2021-03-26 · Why I'm Worried about 2021 — Hank hopes we will transition to COVID being less of a big deal, deciding for ourselves what is OK, and asks how far we will decide for others too. (hedged) — 00:01:27
2021-03-26 · Why I'm Worried about 2021 — Hank: People will understand risk, citizenship and societal impact differently, and behavior change will matter less as vaccines matter more, as long as nothing goes terribly wrong. (hedged) — 00:02:26
2021-03-26 · Why I'm Worried about 2021 — announcement: Hank's advice and plan is to keep taking precautions: he will keep wearing a mask at the grocery store once fully vaccinated, since he could still spread the disease. — 00:02:26
2021-04-06 · How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? — John: Likewise John doesn't know vaccine hesitancy from inside, but he sympathizes with viewers who feel it or find getting vaccinated against COVID stressful. — 00:00:58
2021-04-06 · How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? — John: The COVID vaccines approved in the US and much of the world are safe and effective; over 100 million people have received them, and they dramatically reduce personal and societal risk. — 00:01:27
2021-04-06 · How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? — John: If everyone were fully vaccinated tomorrow, COVID-19 would be at most a minor problem for humans. — 00:01:56
2021-04-06 · How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? — John: Immunity is not really a personal trait: as Eula Biss wrote, immunity is a public space; every immunized person lessens COVID's ability to reach the vulnerable. — 00:02:26
2021-04-06 · How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? — John: On his vision board John is thankful for safe and effective vaccines and hopeful for shared immunity soon. (hedged) — 00:03:49
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John assumed the pandemic would delay the MCOE for months or years, but donations grew every month and, with Partners In Health, over $20 million has been raised. — 00:00:29
2021-04-23 · Young People and the COVID Vaccine — Hank: In the US everyone over 16 can now get a COVID vaccine; over 200 million doses have been given and around 40% of people have had at least one dose. — 00:00:00
2021-04-23 · Young People and the COVID Vaccine — Hank felt pretty crummy the day after his second dose. — 00:00:40
2021-04-23 · Young People and the COVID Vaccine — Hank: COVID symptoms suck at any age; it kills few young people, but hospitalization rates are pretty high, which also burdens overburdened health workers. — 00:01:07
2021-04-23 · Young People and the COVID Vaccine — Hank: COVID has long-term side effects that are not well understood, sometimes even after very mild cases. — 00:01:07
2021-04-23 · Young People and the COVID Vaccine — Hank: Even without that, getting COVID means feeling awful and quarantining, so why not cut those odds by 95%. — 00:01:07
2021-04-23 · Young People and the COVID Vaccine — Hank: Everyone but the first case caught COVID from someone else; many are infected by people who don't know they are infected, and vaccination cuts the odds of infecting others way down. — 00:01:37
2021-04-23 · Young People and the COVID Vaccine — Hank: Every new COVID variant evolved inside a person; nobody wants to be that breeding ground, and a vaccine prevents it. — 00:02:10
2021-04-23 · Young People and the COVID Vaccine — Hank: Immunity from getting COVID is much less effective at preventing future infections than the vaccines, so having had or planning to get COVID is no substitute: you need a vaccine. — 00:02:10
2021-04-23 · Young People and the COVID Vaccine — ask: Hank: As a favor, Hank asks viewers to use the description link, enter their zip code, make a COVID vaccine appointment, put it in their phone, go, and get a free donut. — 00:03:28
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — John: The book's endpapers are based on John's circle drawings. — 00:00:00
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: In early 2020, after two years of writing the podcast, a novel coronavirus appeared, and John began to write about the only thing he could write about. — 00:12:53
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: Writing in April 2021, still amid the crisis, John finds much to fear and lament but sees humans sharing what they learn and caring for the sick and vulnerable: even separated, we are bound up in each other. — 00:13:16
2021-06-11 · My Greatest Tool Against Vaccine Misinformation — Hank says the vaccine is effective: counties with lower vaccination rates have higher hospitalization rates, and COVID rates in nursing homes plummeted after the first round. — 00:00:29
2021-06-11 · My Greatest Tool Against Vaccine Misinformation — Hank says COVID is a real problem: there were 300,000 more deaths in 2020 than in 2019, even with all the precautions people took. — 00:00:58
2021-06-11 · My Greatest Tool Against Vaccine Misinformation — Hank is grateful to have some immunity from COVID without having had its symptoms or becoming a carrier who could sicken someone more vulnerable. — 00:02:43
2021-06-18 · QUADRAGOCON 2021!! LET THE GAMES CONTINUE!!!! — Hank says that through their own laziness and a global pandemic they are about two years late with the second quadrennial Quadragocon. (playful) — 00:00:00
2021-06-18 · QUADRAGOCON 2021!! LET THE GAMES CONTINUE!!!! — John announces the contest is a draw, so they won't know for sure who the real Quadragoconian is for another four to six years; Hank adds that everyone besides them is the real winner. — 00:03:09
2021-07-20 · Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews — John: Melissa, a COVID nurse, wrote that the collection helped her find her white-knuckled way through the pandemic. — 00:02:59
2021-07-30 · Can You Trust Science Too Much? — Hank: Ivermectin is not an effective treatment for COVID. — 00:01:35
2021-07-30 · Can You Trust Science Too Much? — Hank: The FDA can't suggest that doctors prescribe ivermectin for COVID because, within the constraints of science, there is no evidence it works. — 00:02:04
2021-10-08 · On February 3rd, 2020, I Wrote a Video I Didn't Make. Here It Is. — John: The 2020 script predicted that in two months we would very likely think we had overreacted to the threat of coronavirus. (hedged) — 00:01:45
2021-10-08 · On February 3rd, 2020, I Wrote a Video I Didn't Make. Here It Is. — John: Current John says this part does not hold up: he is not sure it was ever very likely. (hedged) — 00:01:50
2021-10-08 · On February 3rd, 2020, I Wrote a Video I Didn't Make. Here It Is. — John says by February 2020 there was much evidence COVID would differ from those diseases, but he tends to predict the future from the past, a method with big flaws. — 00:02:16
2021-10-08 · On February 3rd, 2020, I Wrote a Video I Didn't Make. Here It Is. — John: The script's worst case: in two months we might remember coronavirus as having been catastrophic. (hedged) — 00:02:35
2021-10-08 · On February 3rd, 2020, I Wrote a Video I Didn't Make. Here It Is. — John: Current John asks how his past self, who studies and is obsessed with infectious diseases, imagined a worst case only 60 days long. (playful) — 00:02:46
2021-10-13 · The Web of Care — Hank: A young, vaccinated friend of Hank's got COVID; she will be fine but feels awful and frustrated that two years of being careful were for nothing. — 00:00:54
2021-10-13 · The Web of Care — Hank argues two years of masks, lockdowns and care were not meant to eliminate any individual's chance of getting COVID. — 00:00:54
2021-10-13 · The Web of Care — Hank: The risk can't be eliminated; precautions lower each person's probability of infection, which slows overall spread, so everyone has lower odds but some get unlucky. — 00:01:38
2021-10-13 · The Web of Care — Hank says his friend probably would have caught COVID as often without precautions, though she is vaccinated so it will be milder, and she might otherwise have caught it more than once. (hedged) — 00:01:38
2021-10-13 · The Web of Care — Hank: No individual must care about or do everything, from never getting COVID to cutting maternal mortality in Sierra Leone or cooking every meal: we do all of it in a web of care. — 00:02:36
2021-11-12 · Everything a Normal Person Needs to Know About Helium — Hank says that with pandemic-induced drops in consumption and new production coming online, the helium shortage appears to be over. (hedged) — 00:02:55
2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · I have been playing a small trick on you. — John: Lastly, John needs to finish his ridiculously time-consuming circle drawings. — 00:02:55

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2022

2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: Even before COVID, raising $25 million felt between ambitious and impossible, but John says it was worth reaching for because it could transform care in the region. — 00:00:29
2022-01-11 · The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later — John is emerging from a long bout of the flu, not COVID, an old-school virus that makes him feel like he is in the 1990s. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2022-02-01 · This Video Is Actually Three Videos — John has been thinking about cost-benefit analyses partly because the pandemic demands a constant, exhausting stream of personal and societal ones. — 00:02:34
2022-03-11 · Is it All Hopeless? — Hank understands the gloom: the pandemic isn't over and we are entering the instability of a dictator with nukes starting a horrific, unnecessary war on a neighbouring country. — 00:01:19
2022-07-01 · 7 Movie Reviews in Four Minutes — Hank has COVID and has not left his hotel room in about a week; instead of getting a lot done, it has meant little motivation and a lot of sleep. — 00:00:00
2022-07-01 · 7 Movie Reviews in Four Minutes — In a comment John says that when Hank tested positive but felt fine, John told him to retest because of false positives; Hank then texted that he now had double Covid. — creator comment
2022-07-08 · Sad COVID Boy Hank Green Eats Foods He Hates but Can't Taste — Hank says that, probably partly because he takes medicine to control an autoimmune disease, he got a kind of COVID that goes away and comes back, which has him looking for the bright side. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2022-07-08 · Sad COVID Boy Hank Green Eats Foods He Hates but Can't Taste — The description says COVID sucks a lot; the taste test turned out fantastic and he would do it all again, except the anchovies. — video description
2022-07-08 · Sad COVID Boy Hank Green Eats Foods He Hates but Can't Taste — In a comment Hank says fully vaccinated people have demonstrably far milder COVID and vaccines cut the chance of death many times; new variants infect vaccinated people but their disease is far less serious. — creator comment
2022-07-08 · Sad COVID Boy Hank Green Eats Foods He Hates but Can't Taste — Hank's bright side of having COVID: he got to eat olives and black licorice without hating them, though there are not many bright sides. — 00:03:03
2022-08-16 · cars vs. covid — John reports that he has COVID, opening his video with greetings from it. — 00:00:00
2022-08-16 · cars vs. covid — John styles himself America's leading COVID-stricken Cars vs. influencer and analyst. (playful) — 00:00:00
2022-08-16 · cars vs. covid — The description calls the video Thoughts from Places, with COVID as the place. (joke) — video description
2022-08-23 · Flin Flon: One Book's Unlikely Survival — John: The Sunless City arrived in John's mailbox just as COVID was settling upon his house. — 00:00:29
2022-09-06 · Some Advice — John asks what he knows about being 25 today: when he was 25 there were no iPhones, YouTube or COVID. — 00:00:00
2022-09-16 · Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles — Hank notes COVID-19 is a disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2, and asks why it isn't simply called the COVID-19 virus. — 00:00:00
2022-09-16 · Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles — Hank: SARS-CoV-2 may cause more than one disease: COVID-19, with a blurry line between it and long COVID. (hedged) — 00:00:29
2022-09-16 · Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles — recommendation: Hank points viewers who want more on long COVID to SciShow's video on it, linked in the description. — 00:00:29
2022-09-16 · Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles — Hank: Evelyn Nicol was in her 20s when she first isolated the varicella zoster virus, and died of COVID-19 complications in 2020. — 00:03:42
2022-09-23 · The Real Difference Between YouTube and TikTok — Hank shows the thing that says he doesn't have COVID. (playful) — 00:00:58

2023

2023-06-02 (said on 2023-06-01, implied) · Chemo is Weird, Y'all — Hank compares the fatigue to when he had COVID: it is hard even to move his arm to grab a Gatorade bottle. — 00:03:39
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says COVID-19 had a global constituency from day one: powerful people and countries saw their lives upended, so resources were spent immediately. — 00:00:58
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita Venkatesan: Nandita says that during COVID, studying at Oxford on a full scholarship, she watched drugs and vaccines arrive weekly while people lamented an isolation she had already lived through. — 00:09:46
2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says tuberculosis has been the deadliest infectious disease for like 99% of the last 10,000 years, overtaken only every once in a while by the Spanish flu, the Black Death or, very briefly, COVID. — 00:00:12

2024

2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank says the second shock is a pandemic that has killed millions of people and disabled countless others. — 00:03:58
2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank says the pandemic left many people socially isolated for a long time, and social isolation is very bad for people. — 00:04:42
2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank's optimistic take: considering those huge twin shocks, most people have actually handled them fairly well, and there are signs we may be healing a bit. — 00:04:42
2024-02-02 · The Weirdest Thing I Did in LA — Hank says Sara's YouTube work when he discovered her was celebrity-driven, partly because that got clicks; during the pandemic she took it in more political directions. — 00:00:58
2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank says the figure was also for that household during the pandemic, when government payments counted as tax coming back, lowering the effective rate. — 00:04:59
2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank: Since some sports carry more randomness, like shot put in the rain or COVID before an event, Hank thinks more athletes give some, but not much, advantage. (hedged) — 00:02:26
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse calls Gianforte an arsonist hired to run the fire station who hates effective government, elected in the tumult of 2020. (playful) — 00:28:17
2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says strep is now mostly diagnosed like COVID, with a rapid antigen test whose binding molecule changes color; it is fast, cheap and pretty accurate. — 00:00:47
2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — Hank wishes he could see what is coming better and feels right now he can't, though he never saw the pandemic coming either. — 00:04:31
2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank: DFTBA.com makes and sells products for creators; it has problems like losing a client or fearing port shutdowns, and COVID made running it much harder. — 00:08:25
2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says the shift to authoritarians is an internet phenomenon, not a post-COVID one: you cannot imagine Donald Trump without Twitter. — 00:15:41

2025

2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says COVID-19 displaced TB as the deadliest infectious disease in 2020-2022, but in 2023 TB regained that status, killing 1.25 million people. — 00:04:58
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Adam Schiff: Taking the long view, Schiff says the country survived the Vietnam era, a civil war, world wars, a cold war and a pandemic and will survive this, though rebuilding takes time. — 00:09:52
2025-08-05 · ONE TAKE JOHNNY — Hank explains the Quadragocon: every 'four years' the brothers hold a 14-event competition; a pandemic disrupted it, the last was four years ago, and the first ten years ago. — 00:05:10
2025-09-19 · Let's Just Be Stupid For a Moment — John announces the 2025 Quadragocon ends in a tie, the third consecutive Quadragocon tie, and says they do not set it up that way. — 00:08:17
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John: Globally maternal mortality has fallen only slowly since 2015, even worsening the year after COVID emerged as health systems were strained: about 23% in the last 10 years. — 00:02:55
2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John says VidCon, a more successful venture, grew from a hotel basement into one of the largest US conferences; it still exists, but the brothers have not owned it since before the pandemic. — 00:04:22

2026

2026-03-20 · I'm Sick Because of the Social Structures of Early Hominins — Hank notes diseases are not always named for their virus: SARS-CoV-2 is the virus, COVID the disease it causes. — 00:00:29
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — announcement: John announces he has written a new book, Hollywood, Ending, out September 22, with signed copies available for pre-order now. — 00:00:00
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — announcement: John: The book has no cover yet and John has not finished the copy edits. — 00:00:00
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John: It is John's first novel in nine years: almost nine years have passed since Turtles All the Way Down came out. — 00:00:00
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John did not write it mainly in the last year: he has been working on Hollywood, Ending (with a comma in the title) since finishing Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:00:29
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John: When the pandemic first emerged John read a story on a series of semi-secret livestreams; that story became this novel. — 00:00:29
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John: Many times over the years John thought he could never publish the book, partly for personal reasons; now it is ready and he is very excited to share it. — 00:00:58
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — announcement: John: The novel is about Kai and Juniper, two people in their early twenties who were in a movie together about the last year of Andy Warhol's life, called Andy Warhol Never Gets Old. — 00:00:58
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — announcement: John: Kai and Juniper navigate fame, work, early adulthood and their complex feelings for each other while their movie blows up, and so do their lives, intoxicatingly and painfully. — 00:01:27
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — announcement: John: The book is also about love and how we find it, and about celebrity and the fame machine, all of which John has seen up close over the last decade. — 00:01:56
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — announcement: John: It is John's first novel for adults and, on several levels, more adult than his previous novels: the characters are older and the themes are for adults. — 00:01:56
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John has been trying to write this novel since 2017, with significant progress at points, but only in the last couple of years saw the path forward clearly. — 00:02:55
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — ask: John asks viewers to pre-order the signed edition at hollywoodendingbook.com soon; signed copies are available in the US and Canada. — 00:03:24
2026-04-03 · I Had a Hallucination This Week — ask: The description tells viewers that John's Hollywood, Ending is available for pre-order now. — video description
2026-06-02 · The Instagramification of Human Experience — announcement: John wants readers to know as little as possible before his novel Hollywood, Ending (out September 22), but wants Hank to know something about Andy Warhol. — 00:00:00
2026-06-02 · The Instagramification of Human Experience — ask: The description asks viewers to pre-order Hollywood, Ending at hollywoodendingbook.com. — video description
2026-06-02 · The Instagramification of Human Experience — announcement: John: These ideas were in John's mind writing the film at the heart of Hollywood, Ending, Andy Warhol Never Gets Old, about Warhol's last year (2025) in the 1980s, struggling to stay relevant in the world he presaged. — 00:04:22
2026-06-02 · The Instagramification of Human Experience — John: From health updates to gender reveals we render 3D experiences into 2D posts; John asks what that does for us and to us, questions Hollywood, Ending tries to answer. (unsure) — 00:05:21
2026-06-05 · The Things We Don't Discuss — announcement: John names his new novel, Hollywood, Ending, out September 22, 2026. — 00:10:32
2026-06-16 · My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover — announcement: John says he began a novel about fame, trauma and loving our way through them about eight years ago, and today finally gets to show its cover. — 00:00:00
2026-06-16 · My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover — announcement: John: The book has two narrators, Kai and Juniper, twenty-something co-stars of a film about Andy Warhol's last year (2025), Andy Warhol Never Gets Old; as it blows up, so do their lives, thrillingly and painfully. — 00:00:00
2026-06-16 · My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover — John spent the last eight years, off and on, finding his way through the novel; he finally has and is very excited. — 00:00:58
2026-06-16 · My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover — John: Writing Hollywood, Ending taught John about acting, Warhol, how to love and why, and reminded him what happens when children's trust and love are misused by their caretakers. — 00:00:58
2026-06-16 · My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover — John says he has been lucky with covers (The Fault in Our Stars' became somewhat iconic, his nonfiction covers extraordinary) but never luckier than with Hollywood, Ending. — 00:01:56
2026-06-16 · My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover — John finds the cover awesome even in ways that only make sense after reading: literally and figuratively, it contains the book. — 00:03:20
2026-06-19 · You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower — ask: The description asks viewers to pre-order a signed copy of Hollywood, Ending at hollywoodendingbook.com. — video description
2026-06-19 · You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower — Hank congratulates John on his new book and its beautiful new cover. — 00:03:37
2026-07-07 · On the Death of the Author — announcement: John is preparing to publish his new book Hollywood, Ending this September and has been thinking about the place of an author in a novel. — 00:00:00
2026-07-07 · On the Death of the Author — John says that, like all books ever written, Hollywood, Ending is coded autobiography: about movies, press junkets, trauma and sudden fame, which he has known. — 00:05:22
2026-07-07 · On the Death of the Author — John says Hollywood, Ending is still a made-up novel; he hopes it is about the reader's experiences and what they survived, not his. (hedged) — 00:05:51
2026-07-07 · On the Death of the Author — John: While writing Hollywood, Ending, John thought a lot about art, why we make it and what it means to commodify it. — 00:06:20
2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank has been rereading John's new book Hollywood, Ending, which he can do even though no one else has access to it yet. — 00:00:00
2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank admits it embarrassingly took him this long to understand the comma in the book's title, and calls it a good comma. (playful) — 00:00:00
2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank says that in Hollywood, Ending John has been subtle with villainy, doing it again in a very interesting way; even saying that may be too much. — 00:03:04
2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank says he is a fan, John is good at that job, and he is so glad John wrote another novel; he didn't know if it would ever happen again. — 00:03:33
2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — ask: Hank notes he forgot to say it before editing: viewers can preorder the book right now, and he doesn't think they will regret it. — 00:05:15
2026-08-03 · Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss — ask: The description asks viewers to pre-order John's new novel Hollywood, Ending, out September 22, at hollywoodendingbook.com. — video description
2026-08-07 · Just Trying to Figure Out My Job — Hank thanks John for not complaining that this distracts from the imminent release of the novel he worked on for a decade, though he is sure John feels it. (playful) — 00:01:24
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John: Six years ago a novel infectious disease emerged that has killed over 20 million people. — 00:04:23
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John calls it curious that, five years after a vaccine dramatically cut serious illness and death, people on average trust preventive health less than before COVID. — 00:04:52
2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — Hank says smallpox patients were most contagious when most sick, unlike COVID and measles, which spread before people know they are sick. — 00:08:16
2026-09-08 · The Life Expectancy Lies That Won't Die — ask: In a channel comment John says he is touring for Hollywood, Ending, out September 22, and invites viewers to get tour tickets or order a signed copy at hollywoodendingbook.com. — creator comment
2026-09-15 · YouTube Says This Video Has 683,183 Views, It Actually Has 312,584 — announcement: John says that in one week Hollywood, Ending, his first novel in nine years, will be out and he will be touring the country. — 00:00:00
2026-09-15 · YouTube Says This Video Has 683,183 Views, It Actually Has 312,584 — John says the book's reviews so far have been exceptionally generous, which has slightly dulled his constant gnawing anxiety. — 00:00:00
2026-09-15 · YouTube Says This Video Has 683,183 Views, It Actually Has 312,584 — John says that over the last eight years he really tried to bring his deepest self to Hollywood, Ending, and is grateful to readers about to do the same. — 00:04:52
2026-09-15 · YouTube Says This Video Has 683,183 Views, It Actually Has 312,584 — announcement: John says he loves art enjoyed in community, and a nerdfighter named Kimmy has created a Discord server so readers of Hollywood, Ending can read it together on September 22. — 00:04:52
2026-09-22 · I Want You to Know Nothing About This — announcement: John says Hollywood, Ending is officially out as of today. — 00:00:03
2026-09-25 · Who Has Signed Their Name the Most Times? — Hank shows his copy, blue and cream with green inside; his favorite surprise about Hollywood, Ending is that the book's insides come in different colorways. — 00:00:29
2026-09-25 · Who Has Signed Their Name the Most Times? — recommendation: Hank reads non-spoilery sentences people have written about Hollywood, Ending, calling it spellbinding, tender and funny, thornier and subtler than John's earlier work. — 00:02:26
2026-09-25 · Who Has Signed Their Name the Most Times? — announcement: Hank: Hollywood, Ending is out wherever books are sold and John is on tour, with tickets possibly still available; Hank's bookstore had only one colorway. (hedged) — 00:02:55
2026-10-01 · Are We Still YouTubers? — Hank says his artwork is not video but the channel, the brotherhood, the whole thing: from people unsure which brother is which to people making Hollywood, Ending cakes, fonts and hospitals in Sierra Leone. — 00:06:57
2026-10-02 · the most powerful attention-consuming tools in the history of the world — John says consuming content is a central theme of Hollywood, Ending: it really means engaging with art, but within capitalism we view that engagement as consumption and art as content. — 00:00:01
2026-10-02 · the most powerful attention-consuming tools in the history of the world — John gives examples: reading Hollywood, Ending, his publisher and he capture your attention's value; this video he splits with Google; on Instagram Meta captures almost all of it. — 00:01:27
2026-10-02 · the most powerful attention-consuming tools in the history of the world — John: In Hollywood, Ending John tried to argue that art is essential to human experience and a site of joint enchantment where our attention intertwines and deepens our connection. — 00:01:57
2026-10-30 · The Last Normal Year — Hank says some things simply occurred: COVID was not caused by the algorithms, though perhaps made worse by them, and a pandemic together with a media revolution has hurt trust. (hedged) — 00:04:25