The memory of the Covid-19 pandemic will likely be seared onto the memory of anyone living today. Economies have been brought to a standstill, daily life has been disrupted and over a million people have lost their lives.
The Black Death plague raged throughout Europe, Asia and Africa from 1347 to 1352 and was believed to be caused by the bubonic plague transmitted by fleas on rats. In less than a decade, it decimated communities around the world as it was transmitted along the global trade routes. When the Europeans first invaded the Americas, conflict broke out as the invaders seized the land from the indigenous peoples for themselves.
Entire populations and communities were wiped out, and it was the few survivors who had to pick up the pieces and desperately fight off the invading European settlers.American soldiers being treated for influenza in 1918 at a hospital in Camp Funston, Kansas. Just as we are doing today, social distancing and quarantines were encouraged to curb the spread of the flu, as was the wearing of face masks.A medieval painting depicting the first outbreak of the bubonic plague during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian.
Even the Emperor himself was infected. He survived, though his domains were badly ravaged by the disease.
In the past, the world has never face an illness that is so easily transmitted that infection can occur just by breathing. Secondly, the death rate is kept relatively low thanks to advancement of health care and awareness from social media which is not available in the past.
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