Origin and spread of the black death
The black death started in 1346 in china and spread globally. The black death spread by flees on black rats with boats and trades, they brought along the flees and rats spreading the Black Death. The black death was the worst era to live in because all your family and friends will probably die.
Origin and spread of COVID-19
COVID-19 spread from an unknown place and scientists still don’t know where COVID started but it spread widely in 2020 when we had to go into lockdown. COVID is a current pandemic starting in 2019-today and still has many cases recorded recently in Australia.
The cause and symptoms of the Black Death
- Bad fevers
- shocks
- black lumps on fingers toes and nose
- bleeding in skin
- very bad pain
The cause and symptoms of COVID-19
- Colds
- coughing
- Difficulty breathing
- fatige
- Body and muscle aches
- head aches
- Lost of taste and smell
- soar throat
The response to the black death by society at the time
People in the medievil period, people will abandoned there friends and family because they had the black death. There only hope was to have faith in religion. At the time you could die any day or hour due to the public all having it.
Peoples responce to COVID-19
In 2020 when COVID-19 majorly spread scientists, people, companies all worked with the government to find a vaccine as they did by quarantining for 7 days, they also had to find something that helps having COVID better which they did on the 22 of February 2021.
Short term and long term impacts on the black death
- Wars were abandoned
- Peasants were paid higher wages
- There was the breakdown of the feudal system
- Improved medicine and health care
- There was dieses linked to the black death and caused by it
- They didn’t have many resources because they couldn’t trade
- It took 200 years to gain back the population that died in Europe
Short and long term impacts on COVID-19
- Less Crime and car accidents
- other dieses fade from Hospitals
- Couldn’t go to school
- Can’t go in public
- Always had to wear a mask
- Skies were more blue
- There have been 6,874,677 deaths all time with COVID
Biggest differences between COVID and the black death/Summary
Black death
- The black death was the most deadliest diese known in the world
- . It started in 1346-1353.
- You could die in one day.
- There wasn’t any treatment or a vaccine.
Both
- There both Contagious by touching or any physical contact.
COVID-19
- COVID started in 2019 and still is going on.
- There was over 6 million deaths world wide.
- There was a vaccine and a lot of treatment made in 2021.
- Takes a week of quarantining to get better.