Level Up Human Extra - COVID-19 and Disease

Level Up Human

Mar 18, 2020•25 min

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Episode description

Simon and Rachel report from their respective bunkers during the March 2020 coronavirus pandemic. We take a long hard look at disease. Are humans a particularly diseased species? What can we learn from pandemics and is panic buying inevitable?

Mentioned this episode

NHS advice on coronavirus: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

Pandemic board game: https://www.zmangames.com/en/games/pandemic/

28 Days Later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later

Outbreak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak_(film)

Contagion: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/

Global village: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village

Darwinian medicine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_medicine

The Tragedy of the Commons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

Syphilis: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/syphilis/

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec

Édouard Manet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet