Today the COVID-19 epidemic has been suppressed in China.
However, most of the major Western veteran powers are still struggling with the painful trade-offs of epidemic control and economic losses. People from Europe and the United States are also forced to stay at home and are silently enduring the bombardment of bad news and the slow torture of economic losses.
Just a few days ago, the United States announced the continued extension of the quarantine period for residents for 14 days, and this is the second time that it has announced the extension of the quarantine period. The painful isolation not only makes Americans worried, but also touches the hearts of the people of the world. In the past few days after the United States was shut down, people around the world also suffered huge economic losses. A high degree of economic globalization allows the impact of isolation policies of various countries to easily expand to all parts of the world.
When we are worried about the world today, we should muster up our confidence and courage, because in the not-to-date history, we humans have experienced and overcome such darkest moments many times, allowing us to enter the ten most terrifying isolations in human history.
The fifth place is the small town of Eyam in Derbyshire, England in 1666. Lyam village implemented self-isolation during the Black Death to prevent the spread of the plague. As early as 1666, they realized that interactions with external villagers would lead to a wider outbreak of plague, so they unanimously decided to self-isolate the entire village to protect themselves from the infectious diseases that spread throughout Europe.
The plague first came to this town because of fleas on clothes brought by Londoners. It was the discovery at the source that made them decide to use a decisive method to control the spread of the plague, that is, isolation.
The isolation measure they chose was to send the sick and the patient into a quarantine hut outside the village, and then provide daily necessities indirectly. This method inevitably caused huge casualties to their villages, but similarly, isolation, which we are still using today, can effectively control the further spread of the plague.
They sent sick villagers into a house with six small holes on the roof located in the middle of several villages, and stuffed money into the small holes so that villagers in the house could buy things from passers-by. During the months of quarantine, the infected villagers suffered heavy casualties and in the end, one-quarter of the villagers died in the disaster, but this decisive and determined move in the disaster successfully saved more villagers and people throughout the region.
The fourth place is the famous city of Venice.
Let us see how the plague affected Venice at its first and worst, and how the Venetian people responded to the invisible enemy. Plague , or the Black Death, killed 20 million Europeans in the fourteenth century, and Venice was one of the most important trading ports with the largest traffic at that time, and people there were very panic about this.
If local residents think that someone or animal on a ship may be suffering from plague, the seafarers on the ship have to stay on the ship for a full forty days before they can enter the Venetian Pier, and their cargo and personnel can leave the ship. These forty days have created an English word for us, quarantine (isolation), whose root is derived from the Italian number 40 (aereo).
Venice even established an isolation hospital on an island to accommodate an increasing number of sailors and their ships with suspected symptoms. This small island is now called less areto vecchio, and a large number of collective graves of thousands of people have been found on and on some surrounding islands. After paying a huge price, these measures helped Venice become one of the cities with less casualties at the time.
The third place is the small island of Povilia, not far from Venice, poveglia
Povilia was once a shelter for more than 16,000 infected people. It was opened in 1793 and was abandoned in 1814. During the Black Death, Italy set up a special quarantine station on the island of Povilia, which was not far from Piazza San Marco in the city center.At the beginning, those who show plague symptoms (such as fever, severe toxemia symptoms, enlarged lymph nodes, pneumonia, etc.) will be brought here for isolation. Later, as the epidemic became more and more serious, the Venetian government was frightened and sent those who only had fever symptoms to the island. In the past three years, as many as 5,000 people died of the Black Death, leaving only one-third of the population in the entire city.
To this day, this island still has many historical scars left during the isolation period, becoming the battle medal of the Italian people against the plague demons.
Second, Philadelphia Yellow fever
We took our attention away from the Black Death, which took away more than half of the population in Europe and focused on the same famous yellow fever. Just in 1793, in two years, more than 5,000 people were recorded and killed by this terrifying plague. At that time, Philadelphia was still the capital of the United States, and yellow fever took away ten percent of the lives of the city's citizens.
In such a bad situation, the city government began to establish isolation stations and isolate all freight ships by port. Unlike the previous examples, this time the isolation measures did not play a significant role, and yellow fever is still spreading in the city. The reason why the isolation of the people in Philadelphia has not been revealed in contemporary medical research, that is, yellow fever is not transmitted from person to person as people thought at the time, but is transmitted from mosquitoes. Therefore, isolation in Philadelphia did not play a role in preventing the continued spread of the virus. At that time, people who lacked medical conditions at that time faced unfamiliar diseases that they could not understand, and vomited blood and then drank a lot of alcohol to try to cure their own diseases.
Luckily, although the citizens' methods did not work, the virus was gradually curbed with the changes in the weather. The main reason was that the spreader of yellow heat, the mosquitoes, slowly disappeared from the city as the temperature dropped. But the horrifying legend continues to spread in the city.
The first place is the leprosy isolation area in medieval Europe
The history of leprosy was first recorded in Catholic records. In the Middle Ages, patients with leprosy were called leper and would be sent to a camp called leper colony for isolation and simple treatment. This practice, which was very popular in the Middle Ages in Europe, still existed in Japan in 2005, and the Japanese government set up a quarantine area specifically for leprosy.
The debate on the leprosy quarantine area in the medieval period has been underway. Some historical researchers insist that there is no difference between life in the quarantine area and the outside world at that time, but there is also evidence that the fate of the patients who were invested in it is very tragic. Their lives were ignored by society at that time, and their identities were also discriminated against at that time. Leprosy was an incurable disease at that time. While leprosy was tortured and unable to cure, it was very likely that it was also oppressed and ignored by society. Nowadays, leprosy has been basically defeated by humans, and only a few areas in the world are still threatened by leprosy, a terrorist disease that has tortured mankind for thousands of years.
But as long as humans continue to believe in the power of science, use scientific means and firm will, they can overcome these terrible nightmares. No matter how aggressive they are at the beginning, humans have walked out of ignorance and out of chaos and fear for thousands of years, and the virus cannot defeat us.
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