From cholera riots to coronavirus: epidemic as an engine of progress?
Coronavirus Covid-19 The epidemic is not overtaken by humanity. The most famous are the plague, which sucked half the European Europe in the XIV century, Osopa, Cholera, finally, the Spanish flu, from which from 3 to 5% of the planet’s population died in 1918–1919. Quarantines that have been widely used today in connection with the spread of coronavirus are also known since ancient times - as well as the closure of borders between countries.