Pandemics and Plague - Is There Anything You Think We Should Add?

When dealing with a the disease, devastating pandemic, there is a tendency to scapegoat and blame a people as being responsible for the disease. Ah, that is a very sad a continuity that we have, in some ways, with the mediaeval period, where jews in icular, were scapegoaded. And we see that the black death led to wide scale, europe wide, major massacres of the jews,. who were blamed for a poisoning christians in christian society. So it was imagined as a poison that was in the water or a poison thatwas introduced into the food supply. We do have the benefit of science, but none the less, we are

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