I always thought is was very funny the way people behaved during the devastating bubonic plague (Black Death) that hit in 1347, and killed a third of the people in Europe.
At the time, the common people believed that the plague was a punishment by God, because humans had been sinning too much.
So the people in the street when around constantly flogging and beating themselves with whips, sticks, etc. The believed that by such flagellation, they could atone for their sins, and so be protected against the plague.
Of course, the intelligentsia of the time were much wiser, and the knew the plague was transmitted from one human to another, so the intelligentsia engaged in social distancing, which helped protect them from the pathogen which causes bubonic plague (the bacterium Yersinia pestis).
But laughably, the common people just kept going around whipping themselves and inflicting pain!
The moral of the story is that the common people often get it wrong, whereas the intelligentsia usually know better.
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Edited by caliban, 02 November 2021 - 12:30 PM.
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