The Plague: The Ebola Virus

In the 1310s, churches and kingdom became strong, cities, trade and industries were grown. It was a really good time for Europe. However, suddenly, pattern of global climate shift, temperature dropped rapidly so that crops failed. In the 1340s, the plague began to extend to many places. The plague was shrouding these places, everyone got panic. Even though the city decided to stop people outside came in, it still couldn’t stop the virus spreading. Cause we know that Yersinia pestis bacteria are transmitted from rats to humans, rats and other animals always can come into any places. As conditions worsen, some priests refused to do something for dead people like baptize them. There is a scene in the video which is a man holding a girl was begging a priest to help him to baptize his wife and daughter. But the priest refused to help him, in
Chen 2 contrary, he ran away. And he turned round at times to see whether the man catch up with him because he was so afraid of being infected. After watching this video, it makes me to think about the U.S. Ebola “scare” from last fall.
He was isolated to prevent the virus from being spread, but unfortunately, he was died finally. However, fortunately, the Ebola virus wasn’t spread to the United States. If there wasn’t any prevention such as vaccination and the Ebola virus spread all over. I think, if so, maybe people would be panic and become crazy, thereby, violence may be appeared. I searched online, it says that Ebola can be transmitted by physical touch. As you can imagine, we cannot know and distinguish who are infected, it is possible that people will refuse to touch anyone to prevent from being contaminated. Everyone stayed alone, in nowadays society, people always living as staying together. As time passes, they cannot bare lonely anymore and become crazy. Gradually, they begin to lose mind and become violent like