The plague is a terrible disaster that everyone talks about.
Anyone can get sick, but unlike ordinary sickness, plague has another synonym: death. In human history, the more medical underdeveloped the period, the more life the plague plundered.
No one knows how many plagues and how many people have died in the development of human civilization up to now.
In well-documented human history, there have been three plague outbreaks that have caused devastating harm to humanity.
smallpox
This is a plague that Chinese is more familiar with, and smallpox was once a disease that everyone smelled in the mainland, and those ominous chickenpoxes appeared on the body, which basically meant that they had stepped into the ghost gate.
The disease originally originated from Egyptian mummies in the third century, and these dead were made into dry corpses and returned to the world in another way.
Early smallpox existed on the European continent and caused several outbreaks of plague. One by one, the colonists ran to the American continent to pan for gold and land, and they brought with them killings and the smallpox plague.
How terrible is smallpox?
Just look at the history that even the Emperor Zhizhi and the Shunzhi Emperor died of smallpox, and I don't know how many Qing Nobles also failed to escape, you can know that it was really incomprehensible at that time.
In 1980, WHO declared the smallpox virus extinct, thanks to a British doctor named Jenner.
Jenner completed the artificial vaccinia vaccination experiment in 1976, and since then, the smallpox virus is no longer an insoluble problem given by the god of death.
plague
The greatest plague that killed the most was the plague, which had another, more widely known name: the Black Death.
Due to the underdeveloped transportation environment at that time, there was no frequent exchange between the various continental plates, so this plague, which was a disaster for mankind, was trapped on the European continent in the fourteenth century and did not spread overseas.
However, even with such environmental constraints, the Black Death wiped out nearly a third of Europe's population, killing 75 million people worldwide, and of course, some experts estimate that the number of deaths worldwide may be 200 million.
What is the concept of seventy million lives?
According to the demographics of the 21st century, as the most populous country in Europe, Russia has a population of more than 140 million, Germany has a population of more than 80 million, and the United Kingdom, France, and Italy are all more than 70 million people.
That is to say, if this plague occurs in a certain country in modern Europe, it is basically the destruction of the country.
Of course, in Europe at that time, there were indeed small countries that were destroyed.
Not to mention the fourteenth century, when the population had not yet exploded, which was a huge blow to the whole of Europe.
The Black Death ravaged the European continent, and the level of medical care at the time was simply impossible to prevent or treat the disease.
In the fourteenth century, Europe was not much developed in medicine, and in Paris, where there was no sewer, the citizens directly dumped excrement and garbage on the side of the road, and the Europeans who did not like to bathe did not think that the virus invasion could be minimized by washing their hands frequently.
When it comes to treatment, the church that was in power at that time thought of many ways, and various treatment methods did emerge in an endless stream, but directly bleeding patients, melting gold and swallowing them, can such "treatment" cure diseases?
The answer is no, and by treating it this way, all you get is higher mortality, more corpses, and more spread of the plague.
The disappearance of the Black Death is similar to today's "herd immunity", in which the weak are dead, and the rest are alive.
It was also after this catastrophe that the once-glorious churches on the European continent have since declined.
It turns out that God cannot save the world.
Spanish flu
The Spanish flu didn't just break out on Spanish soil, nor did it infect more people because of Spanish transmission.
On March 4, 1918, there were flu patients in the American military camp, at first everyone only thought it was seasonal influenza, but when the death rate soared sharply, the flu infection could not be contained, and everyone realized that it was a plague.
At this time, during the First World War, a large number of infected American troops were sent to the front, so the plague was transported to european countries.
The reason why it was named "Spanish flu" is actually very ridiculous.
Because only Spain acknowledged the outbreak of the plague and tried to solve it, all other countries, when they were deaf and blind, were killed and thought it was a flu.
The plague killed more than 25 million people, and because of the large number of people who died, the First World War finally stopped.
The plague halts the war, as if one massacre had stopped another.
Today, in the twenty-first century, history seems to be repeating itself.
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in 2019, the number of people dying from "influenza" in various countries has seen an abnormal surge.
"But because only the mainland acknowledged the outbreak of the new crown epidemic and did everything in its power to stop the spread of the epidemic, in the end, the countries of the world put the plague on China's head as if they had put their hats on Spain."
The flu broke out in the U.S. military camp that year, and eventually Spain was on the back.
Today, before the new crown epidemic, the United States has been calling an uncertain pneumonia "e-cigarette pneumonia", but after China admitted the existence of the epidemic, "e-cigarette pneumonia" quietly disappeared, leaving only the new crown that was named after a Chinese city and was condemned by the world with the banner of the tiger Pila.
The plague has always been the enemy of all mankind, and what we should do is to destroy it, not to use it to eradicate dissidents.