Cyber Day; Post Seven

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Rather than researching more about Alexander the Great, today we were instructed to do a comparison between the Plague of Athens (c. 430 - 426 BC) and the Coronavirus (Covid-19). It's unfortunate that after 2,400 years, we still suffer from similar casualties that were present in the life of Athenians. Firstly, as of now, the Coronavirus has killed about 7% of what estimates suggest the Plague of Athens did. And unlike the Plague of Athens, which seemingly stayed within that City-State region, COVID-19 has spread worldwide and is spreading more every day. While it may come in handy, transportation today is only making the virus worse, that's likely why Athens didn't spread it to other regions of the world. Although they underwent transportation often, it's not like today where traveling around the world is so necessary. Perhaps one of the most famous victims of the Plague of Athens was Pericles. Pericles was responsible for strengthening and leading Athens through hardships (such as the Peloponnesian War), but roughly two years into the Peloponnesian War, the Plague of Athens struck the region killing Pericles two boys. About one year later, Pericles, himself died. Currently, there's plenty of big-name figures who have the Coronavirus, and some have died, and others have recovered. In one of our last classes, we discussed the lethality of COVID-19, which is very complicated. From additional research, I can also see that this rate in which people die with the disease is often changing. Additionally, today we have the technological means to fend off death from COVID-19, while the Athenians likely had very little knowledge of the Plague and small diagnostic ability. Besides that, research shows the symptoms of the Plague of Athens to be very similar to the flu or pneumonia today. In reality, the Flu and the Common cold are Coronaviruses as well, which leads me to believe that the Plague of Athens was another form of the Coronavirus. Unlike the world then, everything has really stopped regardless of where you live; the risk is just too high for many of the world's population. This was likely not a big fear among the Athenians for they were probably unaware of how such things spread, were treated, and their lethality. Yet again, it' very difficult to know to the extent what their knowledge was on ailments such as these. It would be very interesting to see where historians get their information about the Plague of Athens. According to the research I've conducted, I see that a lot of the times, historians look to the gravesite for answers on disease and war. In this case, they looked at a gravesite that was prepared and laid out very hastily, leading the researchers to believe it was during a time of war or disease. Though, when looked upon further, they noticed the locations of the graves were that of areas supposedly hit hard during the Plague of Athens.
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With that said, I conclude my March 26th Cyber-Day Post; Till next time! Stay Safe! 

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