Been re-reading Daniel Defoe’s A
Journal of the Plague Year. Defoe is credited by many as the first novelist
AND the father of journalism. Striking similarities exist between today and London
in 1665. People were locked up in their homes. The sick quarantined and
abandoned with big red crosses painted on their doors as a warning. Cemeteries
were bursting. New mass graves were dug until they reached the water line.
People embraced amulets and fake cures. No vaccine existed. No belief in
science then to develop a cure, either. Only religion. So, has 40% of the
population changed since then?
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