A salient issue that I thought of while watching this film was the recent Ebola breakout. Ebola has been around for a very long time, but with today’s technology and medicine it’s not as much of a big deal.
Ebola and the Black Death are so much alike that scientists believe the Black Death was Ebola or an ancestor of it. Some symptoms of Ebola are headaches/ body aches, fevers, vomiting/ diarrhea, and blood blisters develop under your skin. How Ebola kills you is it makes your immune system attack you’re own organs and your blood vessels burst so you bleed to death. Some symptoms of the Black Death are flu like fevers, vomiting, pus filled blisters form on your neck, air pit, and groan areas, and purple and black blotches appear on your skin. How the Black Death kills you is pneumonia like flooding of the lungs. Both the Black Death and Ebola are very contagious.
The film reminded me of the scare everyone had when the Ebola
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The film shows us the difficulty of surviving the sickness, which was almost impossible to survive. The only key way of surviving the sickness was isolating yourself from anyone and everyone, and that was nearly impossible to do. The film shows us how strong the people were and how much they cared for each other. When the people were sick and dying the doctors stayed and helped, even though they knew there was nothing they could of down to help, they still stayed and risked getting sick themselves. This film shows us what they did to stop it or control it and, if the Black Death ever makes an appearance in this world again, we will be able to stop it with the technology we have today. I believe it is important to look back on our greatest achievements to see how we did them and how we got through them. Also I think it is important to look back at our greatest disasters to see how we over came them and, if need to, over come them