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Human beings are very fragile, and in the short term, the most difficult moments of the new crown virus have passed, but if you look at the perspective of the entire human history, the confrontation between the new crown virus and mankind has only just begun.
The nightmare of ancient Chinese: the miasma of the south
Sima Qian once recorded in the "Chronicle of History and Cargo Breeding": "Jiangnan is humble and wet, and her husband died early. Cao Cao also once said: "Many people are afraid of diseases, and there are epidemics in the south, and it is often said that 'if I go to the south, I will not survive'." ”
Why did Sima Qian and Cao Cao "denigrate" the south so much?
In fact, before the Song Dynasty, the "south" was regarded by people at that time as a "place of fear", where the development of agricultural civilization lagged behind, hundreds of years later than the north, and was considered to be full of "miasma", Jin Yong also wrote yun, Gui, and Chuan as the origin of the Five Poisons Sect in martial arts novels.
What is the "miasma" that the ancients feared? It turns out that the so-called "miasma" is an infectious disease and parasitic disease represented by malaria.
A booster to the demise of the Ming Dynasty: "Big Head Plague"
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese version of the "Black Death", the "Big Head Plague" caused by poison during wind and heat, broke out. According to ancient records: those infected with "big head plague" vomit blood like watermelon water and die immediately.
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the plague of big heads became more and more serious, and nearly half of the population of Beijing died due to the epidemic, including a large number of soldiers, and the procession transporting coffins to mass burial posts outside the city blocked the city gates.
Therefore, when the peasant army led by Li Zicheng, the king of the Chuang Dynasty, which was not objectively brave and good at war, hit Beijing, even the eunuchs stood on the city wall in a hurry...
With the help of the plague, the peasant army effortlessly took the city of Beijing, and the Jianghu people called it: breaking into the king into Beijing.
On the same day, the Chongzhen Emperor came to a crooked neck tree in Coal Mountain (present-day Jingshan) and hanged himself, and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed from then on.
But not long after Li Zicheng's army captured Beijing, he was also collectively infected with the plague of big head... At that time, Beijing did not lock down the city, the peasant army with heavy casualties fled from Beijing, becoming a source of infection that went south, and the army of the king was reduced to an ominous army, and everywhere it went, people were afraid to avoid it...
Medieval Killer: The Black Death
In the 13th century, a super-potent infectious disease appeared in Europe, the plague, commonly known as the "Black Death". People who are unfortunate enough to be infected with the Black Death will have large dark spots on their skin, and the fatality rate is close to 100%.
In the shadow of the terrible epidemic, terrified people went to the Catholic church to ask God for help, because at that time, the treatment of the disease mainly depended on prayer, and the priest became the main group to treat the sick, so the church became the hardest hit area of the epidemic.
The Black Death and the Industrial Revolution From the 15th to the 18th century, the Black Death killed at least 50 million people in Europe, and for a time the continent of Europa seemed to be dead.
It has been recorded that as the supply of labour was cut off, Survivors in the UK welcomed the rising wages, with average wages tripling, and workers becoming the strongest bargaining group in the labour market.
So the capitalists had an urgent incentive to seek "human" alternatives, and large-scale machines were developed. This great historical period is known as the "Industrial Revolution".
The evil European virus: smallpox, syphilis
As soon as the Spaniards set foot on the American continent, they began to trade with the locals, the so-called "Columbian Exchange", but this was not only a great exchange of goods and treasures, but also a great exchange of bacteria and viruses in the microscopic world.
Soon, the trade market became a colonial battlefield, and infectious diseases acted as a great killer on the battlefield.
The smallpox virus in the Spaniards inadvertently spread among Native Americans. The local Aztecs were immune to the virus, which they had never heard of, and about 80 percent of the natives were killed by smallpox.
The natives of South America also gave a "great gift" to the Spaniards - syphilis. After columbus's fleet returned to Europe, the syphilis bacteria caused a bloody storm in Europe.
A weapon more terrible than war: the Spanish flu
During World War I, the flu virus known as the "Spanish flu" swept the globe. People died unexpectedly, sometimes in the morning when they were fine and in the afternoon they became a stiff corpse.
At the time, the flu killed 2.7 percent of the world's population, mostly young and strong military personnel. Because the loss of combat effectiveness was too much, the main Warring States of the First World War was seriously injured, and even the battle could not be fought...
In 1918, World War I ended prematurely.
Forcing human reform: cholera
In the first half of the 20th century, cholera broke out repeatedly in China. Cholera is a potent infectious disease, mainly transmitted through fecal mouth, and is still one of the Class A infectious diseases in China, higher than the rating of SARS.
Cholera can be described as a "great cause" in advancing the course of human history, forcing Marquez to win the Nobel Prize in Literature; forcing the British government in the early 19th century to make up its mind to establish a large-scale urban water supply network, "forcing" the Englishman Dalton to invent the world's first water purifier...
Cholera has also forced Chinese to undergo unprecedented innovations. Cholera in the early 1930s prompted the Nationalist government to start a 15-year New Life movement.
In this campaign, a landmark health habit in the history of national public health - "drinking boiled water, not drinking raw water" appeared, which has been passed down to this day and has become a "panacea" for Chinese to cure all diseases.
The coronavirus that has not yet passed
Beginning in the winter of 2019, a novel coronavirus that has never been discovered by humans has swept the globe. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, we have witnessed too much history:
——The "big shutdown" of the global economy, the blockade of routes in various countries around the world, the U.S. stock market has been circuitized 4 times in less than 10 days (the PREVIOUS history of the U.S. stock market has only been circuitized once), the U.S. WTI crude oil futures price fell to negative numbers... In a way, COVID-19 may have changed the course of history.
In the early 2020s, when science and technology were developed, human beings were still so passive and caught off guard when they encountered viruses they had never met, and even lacked a timely response mechanism, even though history has revealed:
As one of the species of the earth, the virus will not and cannot leave human life, which has become one of the basic parameters and determinants of the human world.
It can be said that in the past 3,000 years of human history, every pandemic of infectious diseases will have a profound impact on the ecology, culture, politics and all other fields of human beings.
Even more frightening than the plague, however, is the virus of thought. Whether we can understand the relationship between the virus and people from a higher and longer-term perspective and establish a correct "view of history" will determine the future fate of mankind to a certain extent.
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