#Pandemics
3 episodesEpisodes touching on Pandemics: Virtual Life, UFO Sightings & Dimensions, Endemics & The New Normal of Pandemics and Coronavirus in the United States.
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Virtual Life, UFO Sightings & Dimensions
In this insightful deep dive and humorous discussion, hosts Kris Tyte and Sean Snodgrass dissect the question: Are we living in a computer simulation? They brilliantly discuss the logical inconsistencies and flaws within this theory. Their dialogue ranges from UFO sightings, balls of lightning, to evolution, metaprogramming, religious arguments, and genetic modification. Along the ride, they discuss neuroplasticity and society's shortcomings: ultimately exploring what it means to exist in an ever-changing, uncertain world.
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Endemics & The New Normal of Pandemics
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss endemic diseases and how based on livestock agriculture, land use, and globalization, pandemics are going to be the new normal. We explore the idea of natural empathy through understanding, how everyone has deficiencies, and sometimes it's a good idea to let kids get away with things. We finish off by talking about how some interests can bolster but also constrict imagination, and how world experience is the ultimate educational experience.
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Coronavirus in the United States
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss Coronavirus in America and how in this case, probably not the type of Exceptionalism we would like to be known for as Americans. We look at why America is particularly vulnerable to pandemics and why Covid-19 has been particularly deadly for us. Going further, we address lessons not learned and how perhaps constant waves of novel pandemics may very well be the new normal, we and the world may be facing. Unless we are ready to make major changes in land use, our relationship to animals, and address deeply embedded cultural and moral failings, the suffering and death will continue and even intensify! Plus, we look at who and what is to blame.
