COVID-19 and the Black Death

Historians must have drawn “lessons” from the past because we have come so far in facing a certain pandemic. Though we have the technologies to spread it just as easily, like planes, we also have the resources to combat these types of things, such as vaccines and most certainly modern medical care. In the dark age, when the Black Death presented itself upon the masses of Europeans and other cultures people came up with some crazy ideas on how it all happened. Like the Jews had something to do with it so they burned them alive or killed them in their sleep, which is pretty heinous to me. Some medical practicioners back in the dark age also came up with the miasmic theory where a bad smell could cause people to catch the bubonic plague, which is partially true and I’ll explain. Sometimes if dead people are sitting around near bodies of water and they somehow contaminate the water and the mosquitoes come around, they usually feed off of the dead bodies and go on to feed off of someone that is alive they infect them with the plague. Thankfully we now have modern antibiotics to fight the plague that almost killed half of Europe’s populace. But we have yet to find a medical cure for coronavirus. The vaccines have been working this far but we have yet to find a remedy.

Another thing, I have thought we really changed from since then was the support of others. When the Black Death impacted the villages and towns of Europe siblings left siblings to die, the clergy fled from their posts and parents abandoned their children to suffer through the disease alone until they eventually passed on. It was pretty sad to hear about how these people suffered back then. Today people don’t do that as much because of the reassurance of modern medicine, but it still could happen. Yet I know we have come so far and accomplished so much throughout the centuries.