COVID19 and Mother Nature

A Google translate version of the French original, with permission of the author. https://belgotopia.com/2020/04/01/covid19-et-maman-nature/

Since the beginning of the COVID19 pandemic with which we are confronted, certain voices of enlightened pseudo-ecologists have been raising themselves, who, as in the Middle Ages, saw it as a just punishment for the misdeeds of man with regard to Mother nature. They also take advantage of these events to involve the development of this pandemic with … global warming.

It is to forget a little quickly that humanity has always been the victim of devastating epidemics, of which here is a very incomplete description, and limited to Europe.

430 – 426 BC: Plague of Athens – around 70,000 dead.

165 – 189: Antonine plague (smallpox?) – about 10 million dead

541 – 747: Justinian plague – 25 to 50 million dead

1348 – 1352: Black plague – around 25 million dead, or 50% of the European population.

1629-1631: Italian plague – 1,100,000 dead (25% of the Italian population)

1664: Great plague in London around 100,000 dead.

1675 – 1676: Maltese plague epidemic

1720: Plague of Marseille – around 100,000 dead in Provence.

Apart from the great plague epidemics mentioned above, very numerous occasional resurgences have arisen in many places.

1779 – epidemic of dysentery in France. About 175,000 dead. (Many other specific epidemics in history)

1823: cholera epidemic

1832 – 1833: Cholera – around 160,000 dead

1840 – 1860: Cholera – 1 million dead in Russia.

1863 – 1875: Cholera

1899 – 1923: Cholera

1918 – 1919: Spanish flu – 25 to 50 million dead.

1957 – 1958: Asian flu H2N2 – around 2 million deaths worldwide.

1968 – 1969: Hong Kong flu (or Asian flu) – one million deaths worldwide

nineteen eighty one – ? : AIDS HIV – Approximately 36 million deaths worldwide to date.

2003: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SARS.

2009-2010: H1N1 flu –

Measles: persistence since the 7 th century BC, – 200 million deaths to date.

Smallpox: persistence since 10,000 BC – declared eradicated in 1977 – 300 million dead.

Tuberculosis: persistence since the appearance of humanity.

Poliomyelitis – declared eradicated in Europe since 2002.

Seasonal flu – 250 to 500,000 annual deaths worldwide.

Mother Nature, who is rather a stepmother, had already raged before even the appearance of man and until today, by multiple and devastating meteorological and geological disasters, by constant volcanic, oceanic, seismic phenomena etc …

It would therefore be wiser to say that the human species must constantly protect itself from the deadly traps that Mother Nature strives to multiply around her!

Jo Moreau.

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