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The people spoke against God and Moses: “Why have you led us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness?
There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!” 6 Then the LORD sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit them so that many Israelites died.
7 The people then came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you.
Intercede with the LORD so that he will take the snakes away from us.”
And Moses interceded for the people.
8 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a snake image and mount it on a pole.
When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will recover.”
9 So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole.
Whenever someone was bitten, and he looked at the bronze snake, he recovered.
ANTONINE PLAGUE (165 AD)
Death Toll: 5 million
Cause: Unknown
Also known as the Plague of Galen, the Antonine Plague was an ancient pandemic that affected Asia Minor, Egypt, Greece, and Italy.
This unknown disease was brought back to Rome by soldiers returning from Mesopotamia around 165AD
PLAGUE OF JUSTINIAN (541-542)
Death Toll: 25 million
Cause: Bubonic Plague
Thought to have killed perhaps half the population of Europe,
THE BLACK DEATH (1346-1353)
Death Toll: 75 – 200 million
Cause: Bubonic Plague
From 1346 to 1353 an outbreak of the Plague ravaged Europe, Africa, and Asia, with an estimated death toll between 75 and 200 million people.
MULTIPLE CHOLERA PANDEMICS
Death Toll: Almost 2 million
Cause: Cholera
The Cholera Pandemic originated in India, spreading from the Ganges River Delta before tearing through Asia, Europe, North America and Africa and ending the lives of over a million people.
Russian Flu (1889-1890)
Death Toll: 1 million
Cause: Influenza
Originally the “Asiatic Flu” or “Russian Flu” as it was called, of Bukhara in Central Asia (Turkestan), Athabasca in northwestern Canada, and Greenland
FLU PANDEMIC (1918)
Death Toll: 20 -50 million
Cause: Influenza
Between 1918 and 1920 a disturbingly deadly outbreak of influenza tore across the globe, infecting over a third of the world’s population and ending the lives of 20 – 50 million people.
ASIAN FLU (1956-1958)
Death Toll: 2 million
Cause: Influenza
Asian Flu was a pandemic outbreak
HONG KONG FLU (1968)
Death Toll: 1 million
Cause: Influenza
It took only 17 days before outbreaks of the virus were reported in Singapore and Vietnam, and within three months had spread to The Philippines, India, Australia, Europe, and the United States.
HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC (AT ITS PEAK, 2005-2012)
Death Toll: 36 million
Cause: HIV/AIDS
First identified in Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, HIV/AIDS has truly proven itself
THEN THE COVID-19 (THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS)?
Death Toll: ?
no sure data as of this date Cause: No one knows for sure yet.
Beginning in December 2019, in the region of Wuhan, China, a new (“novel”) coronavirus began appearing in human beings.
Throughout history the world has had its share of sicknesses.
And thankfully, after some time, and unfortunate deaths, man has found a way to either treat, cope or cure the sicknesses we have had to face.
If you drive down a local highway not far away, there stands an advertisement of a pill that allows one to supposedly prevent HIV.
Imagine that, a pill to prevent a disease.
When I was growing up, older people would always joke, that one day there will be a pill for this or for that,
and look, here we are.
Modern Conveniences
In our modern times and conveniences something gets lost in history.
I saw a movie by Mel Gibson called “Apocalypto.”
It is about the ancient Mayan culture.
There is a scene where these bad guys are chasing a victim through very dense tropical jungle.
One of the several among the group was suddenly bitten by a Fer-de-lance Snake on the neck.
As he lay there in pain and shock, his buddies kill the snake, and then, start saying their goodbyes to him.
One of them, even leaves him a knife to kill himself once the agony of dying became too great.
Notice there were no modern conveniences like, an ambulance to come to the rescue.
There wasn’t a Walmart to get some bite cream for those in the past.
“How would you like that.
Oh, you’re sick, oh thats too bad, well say hello to Jesus for me?”
If that were to happen today, with a phone call, a team could show up, and inject him with an anti-venom shot and prevent him from an agonizing death.
If he only had what we have now, he would have lived.
When people were suffering from the Antonine plague, which was probably smallpox, they didn’t know they could be easily treated with modern medicine.
If all they had were some antibiotics, they would have lived and not died.
Speaking of Modern Antibiotics, if they would have been available during the multiple outbreaks of the Bubonic plague, many would have been easily treated for the disease.
The worst they may have recieved would have been a loose stomach perhaps.
If the multiple generations that had suffered through this dark time called the “black death,” in history, had access to common antibiotics, they would not have died but would’ve lived.
Speaking of loose Stomachs, What about those poor people, and I mean literally poor people that suffered through Cholera outbreaks?
If they had access to clean water, they would not have gone through this, but history proves they didn’t and they drank contaminated water killing almost 2 million.
If only they had access to what we produce in now in surplus, and have packed on our shelves at every pharmacy in the country, they wouldn’t have died, but lived.
The world has gone through some sickness.
How about the Flu virus?
They say sickness isn’t racist, and that it can infect anyone no matter what color you are or where you live, but the flu isn’t playing around.
It takes it to the next level.
It speaks so diverse it speaks several world languages,
There is the Russian, the Asian, the Hong Kong, and the Spanish apparently.
Not only does it affect humans, the animal kingdom has it’s own problem with them.
The Bird flu, Swine flu, & the Equine flu.
But, every year, we can get a little shot in the arm to prevent us from having to deal with it.
Every year we are “Asked” to get a flu shot.
If those generations had what we have access to today, they wouldn’t have died, but lived.
Then HIV hit the world in a big way, making a big splash in the 80’s.
Everyone was afraid to go near anyone infected with it.
And still to this day.
Even though there is very capable treatment for it these days.
It still carries a sort of stigma.
We still need to take serious precautions not to get exposed to this very deadly virus.
But, even so, if the people who have been exposed to this virus, only had the prevention medicine we have today, they would have lived and not died.
Now most recently the entire world went through a very traumatic pandemic the likes of which the world is still trying to overcome.
We, even in this very building are still trying to rebuild our lives now around the ashes of the burn pile we call,
COVID-19
In the beginning of this illness, many died giving us in modern time, a taste of what those in the past must have gone through.
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