What did pre-modern civilizations with no real healthcare tech levers do in pandemics?
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Without an understanding of modern medicine, pandemics were viewed through the lens of magic or retribution of the gods. Survivors often sought retribution against neighboring tribes.
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Those able would leave the city for countryside estates during the plague season. The sick died in their houses and the houses marked; those from afar who carried those remains to mass graves after the outbreak gained noble titles. AFAIK London's 1666 fire solved it for the Brits
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how towns self isolated and died to protect neighboring villages and towns during the black death in the UK
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They took care of their sick, cleaned, did rituals, and moved out of the area if they could. They were more resigned to early death, and, before germ theory, they didn't really focus on individual infections. Kentucky fired cannons to scare away the cholera in the "bad air."
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"Died" would be a good answer to "what" if you'd said "pre-civilized."
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@vgr - here’s a great article about the Black Death pandemic. To answer your q - people fled, spreading the disease..https://www.historytoday.com/archive/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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To determine that you would need to identify a epidemic pathogen that made its presence detectable in the palaeoarchaeological record so that you could observe that these were 'their' burial practices at such times.
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Isolate the sick is the closest there is to a common answer. Lepers' colonies etc. Supply of food/water depending on wealth and benevolence of community. 'Sacrifice' of those that tended to the sick/chikdren died too (e.g. women in India, 1918).
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Rich go out of town and write ballads... poor make do like sohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU0d8kpybVg …
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