Human life is very fragile, even if there is no innocent disaster in life, in the end we will return to dust and earth. But in fact, there is another thing that threatens people's lives and health and makes people smell different, that is, viruses. Once any virus breaks out on a large scale, it will not only threaten people's lives and health, but also threaten the economy and even cause cultural and social unrest.
The impact of COVID-19 has not subsided to this day
So today I will give you a good look at how the virus has affected human history.
Let's show you some data first.
Ebola, which broke out 23 times from 1976 to 2012. The fatality rate is as high as 50 to 90 percent. There are currently no vaccines and drugs.
The Ebola virus is still raging in Africa today
Influenza A virus, which had a global outbreak in 1918 that claimed 50 million lives, each recombination of the virus increased contagiousness and led to the ineffectiveness of existing treatments.
HIV, a virus that can lurk in humans for 8 to 9 years without warning, can still cause contagion. Current treatments can only relieve symptoms and prolong the lives of patients
Smallpox virus, the only virus that humans have eliminated worldwide so far. But in the 16th and 18th centuries, the number of people who died of smallpox in Europe was about 500,000 per year, in Asia it was 800,000, and throughout the 18th century, the total number of Europeans who died of smallpox was more than 150 million.
The only virus that has been completely conquered
Rabies virus, we now have a vaccine, but once we do not get timely treatment, the mortality rate after the onset of the disease is 100%.
I'm not going to list them all here, because there are so many of them, and these viruses are like Pandora's box that hasn't been opened yet, and they're like damocles swords hanging over their heads.
In the process of fighting these diseases, we believe that this is a natural disaster after another, and we have tried to solve them by using various methods of praying to God and worshiping Buddha, until mankind learns to use modern medicine to fight these disasters.
It must be mentioned here that it is the virus that has plagued Europe for centuries. The culprit of a series of disasters was the plague, which at the time had another name, the Black Death.
In the 14th century, the Black Death, the plague we often call it, swept across Europe, killing about 25 million Europeans, that is, 30% of the Population of Europe at that time; compared with the first half of the 20th century, the most tragic war in human history, World War II, the number of people who lost their lives in Europe during the period accounted for about 5% of the total population.
Here we are going to talk about one of these events.
Known as the last plague in London in 1655, the Black Death began in the spring of that year, a time that lasted about a year. Official figures show more than 68,000 people died that year, but many more believe the number is closer to 100,000. It was hell on earth, and many thought it would be the end of all times.
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In the early days of the Black Death, Britain chose to hide the facts because it did not want to interrupt overseas trade. Because if the news of the Black Death reached other ports, British ships that were not allowed to enter the country would bring their own trade to a standstill.
But the british people can't hide it, so more people choose to pack their bags and leave their homes, hoping to get rid of the impact of the plague in this way, but this also accelerates the spread of the plague. Others, on the other hand, choose to ignore the early signs of this plague and live as usual. Ignorance and panic are both to blame for hastening the outbreak of the plague.
The government at that time did not do nothing, and there was a rumor in London at that time that the root of the virus came from cats and dogs, so the mayor ordered that all cats and dogs be killed. It is estimated that more than 200,000 cats and 40,000 dogs were killed at that time. But they didn't know that the plague was spread through fleas on infected rats. These dead cats and dogs can actually greatly reduce the number of rats, and the animals are once again carrying the human pot.
At that time, the number of cemeteries could not bury all the dead, so they were all buried hastily. People pushing carts on the streets collect the dead and dig a pit in the wild. Although many people refuse to go near these pits for fear of being infected, there are still people who are frightened by the plague and pray near the pits, which they consider to be a punishment from heaven. Of course, these people were found to be also believed to have been infected with the plague and buried with the dead.
It can't even be buried
The outbreak of the Black Death had a serious impact on Europe, and Western scholars believe that it marked the end of the Middle Ages.
The Black Death changed the course of European and world history in every way
Problems that cannot be solved by burning witches or praying naturally depend on science. If you can't get an answer to the worship of God, you must naturally believe that man himself is the key to solving the problem. So there was academic development, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment. Thus changing the direction of the development of European civilization.
Then some viewers should ask, is there a Black Death in China, why is it not so influential? I want to tell you that there was an outbreak of the Black Death in China, the plague. There are even records of outbreaks at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and here we have to mention a person called Wu Liande.
It was because of him that the plague that broke out at the end of the Qing Dynasty more than a hundred years ago was strangled before it left the three eastern provinces. A plague in Europe would take a hundred or two hundred years to recover. In China at that time, who could give us a hundred years?
In December 1910, the plague began to break out in the northeast, and the number of recorded deaths reached 39,679, about 1.7% of the population of Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces at that time, especially in the Harbin area. If left unchecked, how much this number will eventually reach, no one can know.
At that time, the three northeastern provinces were controlled by Tsarist Russia and Japan, and the Qing government did not have full-time epidemic prevention agencies, so these foreign powers threatened the Qing government to surrender its epidemic prevention power. Now it can be imagined that if the right to prevent the epidemic was surrendered, they would definitely be mainly protecting the overseas Chinese, and it is unimaginable that the Chinese at that time would live in a deep and fiery situation. Moreover, the handing over of the epidemic prevention power was basically equivalent to handing over the three eastern provinces, and even if the government at that time was backward, it could not do this thing, so they invited Wu Liande, who was the vice president of the Tianjin Army Medical Hall at that time, to be the chief medical officer with plenipotentiary powers.
Wu Liande was the first Chinese in the world to receive a doctorate in medicine from the University of Cambridge and a finalist for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
At that time, in the northeast, there was already a foreign epidemic prevention expert, but he did not trust Wu Liande, and even kept contradicting Wu Liande.
The foreign monks recited to themselves the sutra that belonged to yes
Until one time this foreign expert, without any protective measures, went to examine 4 patients and developed symptoms of infection, and died after 6 days. I don't make any comments here, and everyone will finish by typing what they want to say in the comment area.
That's when everyone realized the importance of wearing masks. Wu Liande then quickly implemented isolation and treatment measures in the northeast, which quickly brought the epidemic under control and created a new history of epidemic prevention in China.
Later, Wu Liande founded the Northeast Army General Hospital, which is now the 202 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army of the Chinese, and founded the Harbin Medical College, which is the predecessor of Harbin Medical University, and served as the first president.
To this day, it is still watching over the wind and snow watching over the Harbin that was once rescued
Wu Liande deserves the four words of the unparalleled soldiers of the country.
As a believer, the nation is unmatched!
In fact, the new crown pneumonia epidemic is still spreading in the world, and we were deeply affected by it in the early days of the outbreak. But now, we can basically go back to normal life. It is precisely because of people like Wu Liande a hundred years ago, in the continuous struggle, the nurses and doctors of the hospital stick to their posts, the cities are locked down in time to control the spread, and everyone does their own thing in the process of epidemic prevention. These people are equally worthy of a national soldier.
"People first, life first"
What I want to say is that in addition to our land, there are also local tricks that feel that drinking cow urine can prevent and control the virus, as well as the faint tricks of concealing and not reporting the epidemic in our country, as well as the move of quitting the World Health Organization that does not know what it is, and the one who insists on not wearing a mask and participating in the election has just been recruited. These tricks can not alleviate this disaster for all mankind, the people will not care who this pot should be thrown to, as for you to say that the virus comes from China, it is estimated that no one but fools will believe it, including the person who said this.
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And our old friend - outrageous
Every one of us may be the pillar of the nation
We will die because of a virus so small that we cannot see it, and we will be united by a catastrophe that has swept the world. We can get scientific truth from a fallen apple, and we can also get inspiration and growth from the pain of the past. This is the reason why human beings live endlessly, believing that in the face of the power of science and technology, we have the ability to overcome the difficulties in front of us, overcome ignorance and ignorance, and understand the nature of things.
The catastrophe of the European Middle Ages will not be repeated again, because this is China, because we are in this era, and we believe in science. In this situation, do not panic, think more, learn to discern, even if your ability is not enough to cope with everything in front of you, you must also believe that every time there is a catastrophe, there will be a country pillar to stand up, just like Wu Liande, like Zhong Nanshan, just like those we see, with or without names of heroes, for the peace, health, development, prosperity of our nation and mankind, continuous efforts to forge ahead. Bless humanity and salute the heroes.
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