What the Plague Foretold about COVID
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Published September 2021 on Maeflowers on Medium - free link to source below
I picked a book out of a random bookcase in my house the other day, wanting to just get out of my head and read a bit. Ended up being an interesting read with more than a few parallels to recent events.
So much for trying to get away from current events
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death & the World it Made by Norman F. Cantor, the late professor emeritus of history, sociology, and comparative literature at NYU and celebrated medievalist, was published in 2001 — well before any of the recent nonsense. His questionable plague origin commentary aside, I found parts of the book to eerily echo the last nearly 2 years of the modern age.
As Cantor noted, historians of disease find commonality in pandemics — people tend to flee to supposedly safe areas and conspiracy theories blame the disease on “strangers and unpopular minorities.” We have yet to break the cycle.
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