What’s wrong with ‘20’ as a year?
It’s currently 2020 going on which feels like a decade in itself because staying away from all the daily usual things we all used to do or practice outside these four walls are just gone. Gone all of a sudden. Leaving most of us with ‘nothing to do’ and some with ‘let’s make this lockdown count by doing all the productive things that must be done’. To tell you guys, I am the former with some writing and reading interest.
My leisure brought me to serve Youtube after so long and as I watched an informative video about obviously the only thing people are talking about these days. I saw a comment on the video saying “there’s something really wrong with years havings ‘20’ in it”. I couldn't stop myself from searching about it and so let’s know what’s actually wrong with ‘20’ as a year.
In 1720 Plague, 1820 Cholera, 1920 Spanish Flu was witnessed. In 2020, we are suffering from Chinese coronavirus. Do you see it? 17(20), 18(20) and 19(20). It seems that once in 100 years the world is ravaged by a pandemic. The last recent pandemics I can mention are the following:
In the year 1720 plague, in the year 1820 cholera outbreak and the most recent pandemic was the Spanish flu of 1920. The researchers said that all of these pandemics we mentioned above have exactly the same pattern as the coronavirus outbreak in China. However, the precision with which these pandemics occur at exactly 100 years of age makes us think better about this topic. Are these pandemics somehow artificially created by a malicious organisation? In 1720 there was a deadly pandemic of bubonic plague. It started in Marseille and was later called “The Great Plague of Marseille.” The researchers estimated the number of deaths as 100,000.
In 1820, the first cholera pandemic occurred, somewhere in Asia. Among the affected countries, I can list Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines and this pandemic has killed about the same number of people, about 100,000 officially registered deaths. The main reason for the infection is the consumption of water from lakes plagued with this killer bacterium.
In 1920 one of the most ruthless pandemics occurred. This is the Spanish flu that has infected about half a billion people and killed 100 million. The Spanish flu holds the official record for the deadliest pandemic officially recorded in history.
It is now 2020. At the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Influenza, humanity is facing a new potential pandemic called coronavirus. Although the Chinese authorities were reluctant to make official statements and appealed for calm, the situation deteriorated rapidly.
It doesn’t actually make sense to see things from the angle of 100th anniversary of destruction in which people are killing people but a thoughtful thing to wonder about because I don’t know why but I cannot stop thinking about it.
