History 2186A/B Lecture 2: Zombie Apocalypse lecture 2
18 Jan 2018
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Epidemics are easy to track because you can see it coming it gives time for panic to emerge. Disease has a reach that is often differential: difference in how it effects genders and class, social fractures, potential for violence. Can strike any society at any time and provoke a reaction. Panics can be caused by the arrival or the fear of the arrival of the disease. Spawn irrational behaviours for protection: the history of epidemic disease. Life expectancy in mid30s died young bc disease was rampant. Late 18thc british 9/10 kids who died under 5 died of smallpox: bubonic plague, caused by yersina pestis bacteria infects rats and other rodents, fleas on rodents pass disease to humans. 542ad plague of justinian begins kills 50 million in europe. 800 ad global warming: better agricultural yield, more people. 1300 ad europe"s populatio(cid:374) had re(cid:272)o(cid:448)ered to 75-100 million.
