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Preparing for a plague
How do I prepare for a plague? That question has been on a lot of peoples minds over the past few years. With the recent release of the swine flu, and the past talk of the bird flu people seem to be getting a little more serious about plague survival.
Because there is more and more discussion on the topic, I thought its about time to share with everyone what I am doing to prepare for a plague.
Knowledge – the first thing to do is understand the effects that plagues have a society. And this is done by reading history books, and several of them. Through past examples we can learn the mistakes of our forefathers. What worked, what didn’t and what caused tens of thousands of people to die in a matter of months.
| One of the books that has been added to my library is The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death by John Kelly. This book gives a true and histrionically accurate of the Black Death written by the people that saw it first hand. Some of the accounts, such as entire towns and communities dying off are almost unbelievable. Its reads more like a science fiction book then a real life – first person account – of what happened during the plagues that killed millions.
Overall this was an enjoyable book. In some parts of the book, I would have never thought that humanity would have sank so low. But when multiple accounts were recorded of thousands of people dying every day, stories of graveyards filling up, stories of thousands of people starving to death, what can you really say about it? We can say that we will learn by their examples and not repeat the same mistakes. |