I had to keep checking back to see when this episode was first released: November 2017, just over 2 years before we first started hearing about Covid-19.
The episode is so prophetic that it's almost scary. It captures the feeling of helplessness and incipient panic in a global virus outbreak, and even introduces (albeit on a simplified level) the concept of "R zero"--the basic reproduction number--where an infection rate below 1 implies a virus will fizzle out on its own, and a rate above 1 leading to a pandemic.
The episode captures the rush against time in the search for a cure, and the feeling of losing control, both in terms of how we lead our daily lives, and in the lootings and quarantines that presage a society in the throes of a lethal stress test.
Compelling viewing.
The episode is so prophetic that it's almost scary. It captures the feeling of helplessness and incipient panic in a global virus outbreak, and even introduces (albeit on a simplified level) the concept of "R zero"--the basic reproduction number--where an infection rate below 1 implies a virus will fizzle out on its own, and a rate above 1 leading to a pandemic.
The episode captures the rush against time in the search for a cure, and the feeling of losing control, both in terms of how we lead our daily lives, and in the lootings and quarantines that presage a society in the throes of a lethal stress test.
Compelling viewing.
