Epidemics and history can be a weapon aimed at hearts to feel again, for despite the darkness of the matter, it also reveals the purity of hearts
It would sound like a science article, but it isn't. I am here today to talk about an event that is not unique in human history, but new to modern generations. We study history and not think that one day our lives will be taught in history.
We studied the plague, for example, and assertion as well. We were thinking how those who preceded us lived in this collective terror? How would you feel when they knocked on your door to pick up your husband or mother because she was injured? How would you feel when you saw them hurt and there was no cure? Only myths that do not exclude you from pain?
You stay away from everyone, stay at home, hide from sight if you are injured, so that they do not take you to those hospitals outside the city limits so that you do not infect others and die alone surrounded by the desert, disease, pain and loneliness. We were studying history away from any human eyes, away from any personal details. Only statistics and information .. How did they get rid of the bodies, the average number of injuries, what did the rulers do, how did the disease spread to the city and how did it get out? How did doctors and hospitals deal with these devastating and deadly epidemics?
We also study in history how wars contributed to the spread of the Spanish flu, how it affected young people most often because they were the ones who were in the war and were exposed to gatherings in the First World War in Europe and the world .. We did not study how these young people who left their families and relatives to defend as they were told From home. How do I go to defend the homeland and kill people like me, to find a virus that cannot be seen with the naked eye killing me and my enemy?
Later statistics of that period estimated that the Spanish flu infected about (500) million people, and from (50) to (100) million deaths, those numbers equaled twice as many as those who died from weapons in that ongoing war, that is: the First World War, meaning: The The virus was more deadly than wars.
Let us mention the many pandemics that struck the world, such as the Black Plague that afflicted Egypt in the 1930s, which led to leaving the dead bodies of the injured in the street for several reasons, including that no one wanted to be infected, and the plague took more than it left, so the corpses were more than to be removed from On the way, the shrouds ran out from the markets, and the burial became outside the city walls without shrouding or prayer .. It was a state of panic that transcended religion and humanity.
Did we stand for a moment to realize how those who preceded us lived in that situation? Famines, diseases and epidemics, and how did they see their neighbors and relatives perishing and being thrown into the streets or the desert? When you are injured, you will find everyone will move away from you, asking you to leave for hunger and loneliness so as not to harm the rest of the family .. Those moments in which we decide that the individual must perish for the sake of the community, and that the family must perish for the sake of the building and that the building must perish for the sake of the city.
When the corona came
December (2019 AD) We were surprised by a quiet Chinese city, Wuhan, cautiously announcing that there is a disease that is spreading, the symptoms are similar to the common cold, and there is no danger or fear. The cases that were infected will be studied in one place, they will be contained .. Just be careful and rest assured. Then, shortly after, we learn that fake disease control does not exist due to underestimation of viruses or that our human ego is what portrayed us as being in control. We discover that the virus is from the Corona family, that large family that we tried in SARS and MERS before.
An emergency warning has been announced throughout the world, considering that the "Covid-19" virus is a pandemic .. such as the plague, smallpox and the Spanish flu, and that the symptoms must be beware. At the beginning, the world did not believe, everyone believed that the virus in China would remain in China, no one looked at history, no one remembered how our predecessors lost the battle before. Then, at the beginning of the year (2020 AD), Corona succeeded in drawing the world's attention, as the world was isolated from each other. Every country has closed entry to or exit from it, every house that lost a dear person, such as a neighbor, lover, father or colleague in a hospital, the injuries increased, the general panic resolved and people were prevented from going to work or leaving the house unless absolutely necessary.
Psychological findings
The real panic that we were reading about in history, and we never felt it, and we took it as just a distant past that will not be repeated, repeated with tragedy.
Epidemics have been tests in which people always fail to show their humanity.
Panic came around, so people around the world stored food, diapers, drinks .. They stored everything related to daily living, even tissues and sterilizers that eliminate viruses and germs, even a video spread of a woman in America trying to find diapers the size of her infant son, crying in front of empty shelves And why do you panic? We may lose our humanity to that disease instead of waking up to be human again.
Many lost their jobs, because the epidemic prevented mixing, and people became home, so companies lost a lot of their money and thus employers were forced to compensate for the losses by providing salaries.
The tendency of many around the world to depression and isolation, as there are many who have closed their homes and refused even to deal through means of communication with people, and there are those who did not become used to isolation and fell into depression and panic, so some governments had to activate free phone lines for psychiatric hospitals, in order for people to communicate or feel symptoms Depression with the psychiatrist free from afar. In addition, many websites linking the psychiatrist and the patient have been created through a video call, in order not to increase the rates of suicide and panic among citizens.
Children get scared. My sister’s daughter was sitting and saw the streets empty, there is no school, no friends, and there is no entry for her to some places due to her young age .. That girl began to see the careful measures of masks and disinfectants that smelled foul and warned and her parents were terrified when she tried to ask to go out to go to the club or to school .. that pandemic It really made us look at all children, past and present, when routines change, when the world goes crazy, when parents change and they become more nervous and fearful. When I love someone, I feel that he is my cind, that I belong to him, and that I belong to him and that he is my shield, so how will I feel when he is afraid, terrified, like a lost child who does not know what to do? Or as a hamster cannot stop the running wheel?
This is what a child feels, grows up feeling that fear is normal in the air, feels insecure, and adults feel that they have something to fear, so he becomes fearful and prone to depression.There are countries that could not bear the economic consequences of home quarantine for citizens. There are countries whose economy has fallen into disrepair, becoming indebted and losing labor and currency as well.
These were some, but not all, results, so how was your life during the stone that could return? In Egypt, there are some school groups that, days after the start of the school year, are thinking of bringing them home and closing schools again.
Have you looked at what I am looking at now, my dear reader? Everything that we have read in history is repeated, but the difference may be that we live it now as a present that we view as human beings who feel, lose, fear, and not as statistics, diseases, results and causes.
But I have no right to mention the negative aspects only, not the positive! For example, in Egypt and Italy ... the musicians went out to the balconies to play and play music, and even played it loudly, reaching those who are in home isolation or a home stone .. With the content that you are not alone, we are human beings who unite music and civilization. The music clips spread on all social media and were shared by many in the name of humanity and love, whatever the circumstances.
The girl I mentioned at the beginning of the article, the one who did not find diapers, many people sent her diapers, and for free, that would last for more than a month for her baby.
Epidemics show contradictions within humans, as evil and panic spread, so did those who teach people to play in the balconies, or they calm the atmosphere through reassuring videos through cases that have quickly recovered. That is mankind, and that is what history will tell us, about that period and that epidemic, so will those who follow us feel like us, or will we just be statistics?
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