The Black Death impacted both cities that were mildly hit and towns that were heavily hit with it. Some cities were totally wiped out from the plague and were without any signs of life. Often times, doctors were infected because of being in contact with the infected. This same thing happened to the priests because they too were in contact with the sick. Without the priests, the community had no religion. All of the deaths caused the community to be torn apart and separate themselves from each other in order to prevent the disease from spreading even more. This was a depressing time for the people and made them not want to be near other people in fear of getting the disease. I can't imagine not being around people just because I was afraid of getting a disease.
That is very sad that whole populations were wiped out by one disease. I like the post, very interesting.
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