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| 10 Deadliest Pandemics In History Were Much Worse Than Coronavirus So Far |
| 2020-04-26 |
| [Federalist] As of April 15, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has reported 605,390 cases of COVID-19 in the United States. These have occurred across all 50 states and have resulted in 24,582 deaths. We are all feeling the effects of the pandemic. Schools are closed, businesses have shut their doors, and nobody knows what’s coming next. While COVID-19 is one of the largest pandemics of the 21st century, you might be wondering how it stacks up to the terrible pandemics of the past. Let’s look at the 10 worst pandemics in human history. 10. The Great Plague of Milan: Italy (1629-1631) Death Toll: 1 million The Great Plague of Milan was a series of outbreaks of the bubonic plague (featured later in this list) that happened between 1629 and 1631. While numerous plague outbreaks occurred in Europe during the 17th century, this was one of the worst. The disease is thought to have been brought into the city of Mantua by French and German soldiers in the Thirty Years’ War, and it spread from there. While the plague ravaged the country, some towns were spared. Ferrara in northern Italy did not experience a single death from the plague because it implemented strict border controls, sanitation laws, and personal hygiene practices. It even built state-funded plague hospitals outside the city’s walls to prevent larger outbreaks from single cases (although the disease was thought to be caused by corrupted air rather than a bacterium). This is a rare example of effective disease control in history and is eerily reminiscent of what the world is going through with COVID-19. The Great Plague of Milan was so deadly, it is thought to be a major contributor to the decline in power of the Republic of Venice, which had risen to prominence during the Renaissance. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #14 I'm still amazed how quickly "conservatives" resorted to arguing like leftists. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-04-26 13:50 |
| #13 I remember a TB hospital in my home town in my early years. Mandatory quarantine in those days. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-04-26 13:25 |
| #12 TB came to mind for some odd reason. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-26 12:05 |
| #11 ^ More asymptomatic infection transmission? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-04-26 11:59 |
| #10 Think of how many times over our collective many, many years where either we or someone we know was ill due to a virus. All we did was stay home, take what we could, and wait it out. Except for, maybe, its level of contagion, why is this oh, so different? |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-26 11:44 |
| #9 Hate. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-26 11:35 |
| #8 C(r)amgorou will hat you for pointing that out... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-26 11:35 |
| #7 Oh, you mean Fauxi and Scarf Lady? (Of course, they'll say HIV is "acquired" differently.) And what about Hong Kong Flu? SARS (v1)? MERS? Ebola? |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-26 11:26 |
| #6 Where were these health professional quarantine cultists when HIV broke out? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-04-26 11:23 |
| #5 One can only hope. Then again, I've been waiting for the swamp to be drained and Hillary to be "locked up" and indictments from "Russia Gate". I mean, after all, Trey Gowdy said so. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-26 10:21 |
| #4 They are all going to be part of the bureau of Sodom... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-26 10:17 |
| #3 Gerbil bureaus are on the way out. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-26 10:15 |
| #2 Bill Gates and WHO are reviewing Fauci'x résumé/CV as we speak. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-26 10:14 |
| #1 This "pandemic" is about quarantine cultism. It's notable Fauci is skipping the WH briefings. He's on his way out, poor overworked bureacrapic mouthpiece. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-26 10:12 |