In The Wake Of The Plaque Summary

While I was reading “In the Wake of the Plaque”, I was not sure at first whast the purpose of the story was. After I read the whole book, I figured out that the Plaque is simply an epidemic that kills off a huge percentage of the population in England. It is said that the plaque was brought into the area through rats. It kind of shocked me when they said rats but then again the rats were infected which infected the population because of the all of the shipments that come on and off the ports. Now, how it got into humans there is much he say she say gossip. According to the team at the Laboratory of Microbial Structure and Function, it went from rats then to fleas and then to the humans. When I read that the fleas infected the humans, it kind of made sense because the fleas bit the rats that were infected and then bit the humans. With fleas being so small it is hard for them to be seen, which means it is hard for them to be killed. This transfer of the bubonic plaque just shows how fast things can travel in the matter of a couple of days or seconds. Being that this was a very dark part of history, until this day it is still trying to be understood, that a lot of artists such as painters have started to receive inspirations from the few people who did survive because it was very unlikely that they
At this time, people became more unified and it can be seen in most of the paintings. The people soon began to realize this was not a battle they could fight on their own so they had to come together. They realized that whatever they had to do to overcome this epidemic, it had to be done. However, being that this happened early in history, there was not much technology so there was not much they can do about medicine or antibiotics to see them through