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Social repercussions of pandemics

Social repercussions of pandemics Filed on February 9, 2021 During and immediately after a pandemic, the social scarring in the form of unrest may not show up quickly. In 1832, the great cholera pandemic hit Paris. In just a few months, the disease killed 20,000 of the city’s 650,000 population. Most fatalities occurred in the heart of the city, where many poor workers lived in squalid conditions, drawn to Paris by the Industrial Revolution. The spread of the disease heightened class tensions, as the rich blamed the poor for spreading the disease and the poor thought they were being poisoned. Animosity and anger were soon directed at the unpopular King. The funeral of General Lamarque pandemic victim and defender of popular causes spurred large anti-government demonstration on the barricaded streets: scenes immortalised in Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables. Historians have argued that the epidemic’s interaction with pre-existing tensions was a principal cause of

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