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From: John DeFilippis
T1: georgedefi@worldnet.att.net
Date: 4/12/98
Time: 11:00:58 PM
Remote Name: 12.68.132.187
The essays that were posted at the Mining Site were quite helpful. They give a good deal of information about the plague and how severe it was for health and social stability. Europe was in such a state of panic and helplessness that nearly everyone was committed to some fight to find a cure, but unfortunately they simply were not ready to combat the sickness. Two things that I found interesting were the fact that people started to question religion due to the ineffectiveness of their constant prayers and that the virus was imported from China. Has there been no historical account of the effects of the plague on the Chinese people? I am wondering how many people died in China and how long the deaths lingered for before disappearing from the population. It truly must have been an awful time to be living in. Nobody wanted to be near anyone else and panic reigned. Ignorance was rampant and one of the essays even compared the anti-Semetic actions to the Holocaust.