Epidemics To Pandemics
March 2020 Editorial
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Current events have taught us in the Western World that epidemics can quickly grow to become pandemics. This is as true today as it was in ancient days. We´ve all heard of The Black Plague in the year 1331 in the Middle Ages and how it wiped out a third of Europe. Other epidemics include the Influenza Plague of 412 B.C. in Greece, the Smallpox epidemic in Japan in the year 735, The various Cholera epidemics and other more modern plagues that include the likes of AIDS. This blog is dedicated to all those people who have fallen from this plague or any other plague. It is also dedicated to all those people who have lost loved ones.

Just when the modern person was getting used to a world where plagues were a thing of the past to be read in books and online, another deadly one appears out of nowhere hitting one country after the next with a mortality rate 10 times that of the flu. Yes, you guessed it, the Corona Virus 19, also known as CoVid 19, is deadlier and much more easily spread than anything I´ve seen in my life and on any of my travels, and I´ve seen all kinds of sicknesses. This CoVid19 has everyone rightfully worried and taking precautions. Even those sheltered people in the world community that have access to good health care and live in good neighborhoods with good jobs are hit. In fact they may well be the ones who gave this pandemic the boost it needed to circle the world because of their access to travel. This is not a disease spread by refugees, immigrants or the downtrodden, for the most part. This is a disease spread mostly by the people who can afford to travel.

Having said that, I would like to offer a list of good books whose stories include some type of epidemic/ pandemic. So, if you´ve grown tired of Netflicks and are looking for another form of entertainment here´s a list of good reading material and a movie. “I Am Legend” written by Richard Matheson, “War Of The Worlds” written by H.G. Wells, “The Mask Of The Red Death” written by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Plague” written by Albert Camus, “The Road” written by Cormac MacCarthy and the 1995 movie “12 Monkeys”(It´s dated but still a good watch).

Stay safe and enjoy some of the good literature out there.

John

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