No one looked after the sick people as they could get infected as well, the sick people were just left to die.
Yes, the mortality rate of plague is not constant depending on what strain and type it is. It can be as high as 90%, so 10% of people who catch it will survive. whatever the disease (like plague), there will normally be some people who are either immune to it and will not get sick or people that get sick but recover from it.
staying away from the sick and moving 2 the country side
They were horrified, sad, and afraid for that person's life and their own.
Since so many people died of the plague, the people that ran the theater were desperate for actors/actresses. They even hired the ill, which made the audiance sick too.
In Venice they moved all the sick people to an island and allowed them to die. Over 5,000 a day died in Venice at the height of the plague.
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It is transitive in "I looked at the dog." It is intransitive in "I looked sick."
ever hear of the saying "avoiding it like the plague"? they feared it, the avoided it, they lashed out towards it. people infected were bad off cause of the disease, but the people ostracized the sick for their own protection, killing burning, rioting, it was a damned mess. check out youtube i'm sure there's a history channel documentary on their.
Many believe that rats carried the black plague when in fact it was the flea the rat carried that actually carried the plague that is how people still got sick locked in a room with no windows is because they would get bit by the fleas (one of the reasons anyways)
Medicine was not known in the middle ages, so many people died of the cure more times than the disease. When the plague hit and large numbers were sick there are historical accounts that areas of towns were bricked up and closed off to keep the sick in apart from the healthy. This was done Edinburgh, Scotland. In Venice, Italy 55,000 sick with plague were put on an island in the lagoon and allowed to die.
The Black death was killing people by ships having rats and fleas. Then the fleas carry the plague and then the fleas go on the people and then they will get sick and die.
During the episode 'SWAK' which was season 2, episode 22