Pandemic diseases are like vampires: they can’t live without us, they never die, yet we are reluctant to kill them. Follow the story of our dysfunctional relationship with epidemic diseases throughout the ages, from bubonic plague to COVID-19, and ask yourself - why have we let this go on for so long?
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Pandemic diseases are like vampires: they can’t live without us, they never die, yet we are reluctant to kill them. Follow the story of our dysfunctional relationship with epidemic diseases throughout the ages, from bubonic plague to COVID-19, and ask yourself - why have we let this go on for so long?
There have been three major pandemics of bubonic plague, each changing out world dramatically. What the plague revealed about power relations and our moral and ethical weaknesses can teach us much about how to manage our pandemic, COVID-19.
Vampire Pandemics - Past and Present
Pandemic diseases are like vampires: they can’t live without us, they never die, yet we are reluctant to kill them. Follow the story of our dysfunctional relationship with epidemic diseases throughout the ages, from bubonic plague to COVID-19, and ask yourself - why have we let this go on for so long?
