Pandemics, quarantines and contagions!

Abstract

Among the great questions of Humanity is why the plagues of famine and wars, suffering and evil periodically approach human societies, assuming incomprehensible inhumanities from the most remote times, referred to in the Old Testament, the pandemics so ancient and after all, so present in our days, they confer a certificate of Evil’s repetitive capacity that in our time we try to dissipate, allowing as little damage as possible. São Roque, rescuer for those infected with the Black Death and also infected by it, would be the one to whom the faithful resorted most in the century. XIV, as well as for any epidemic and contagious disease, the object of prayers, promises and novenas! The recourse to quarantines at the time of the Discoveries, on the other hand, would prove to be very useful and effective, it was Prevention to initiate the first steps, initially among sailors and travelers! The Byzatine texts on epidemics were skeptical of contagion, contrary to Muslims who accepted it since ancient times, but however knowledgeable the natural explanations, the paradoxes persisted and persist, how can God infinitely good and powerful, sow the plague on Earth , cholera, influenza, AIDS, covid-19 ? Celebrated by Catholics, Orthodox and Lutherans, St. John Damascene would say that God would be the creator of all goods but not evil, this being due to the misuse of free will practiced by men or simply attributed to fatalism by Muslims. Believers, heretics, and many others, facing the threat of an Apocalypse wait and despair according to their own ideas, beliefs, empiricism versus rationalism of the moment, but one thing is certain: inexplicably epidemics and pandemics suddenly stop, dissipate, disappear SEM to know why, as Didier Raoul, a doctor from Marseilles, and I would add, are they also necessary in human baggage, to cross the barrier of Time?