Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19

COVID-19 and the History of Pandemics and Epidemics

It can come in waves-like tidal waves. It changes societies. It disrupts life. It ends lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest
example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that knowledge and social cooperation can save lives.

Viruses are neither alive nor dead and are the closest thing we have to zombies. Their only known function is to replicate themselves, w...