Question

The story of people and pathogens is that of a difficult evolutionary marriage.

Pathogens want to live and prosper. Killing off humans — the hosts — would

become a self-defeating exercise. Both parties, therefore, try to work towards

mutual survival. After a certain point in time, the two declare an uneasy truce and

humans start to live with the pathogen. We have done so many times before, and we

will do so with the novel corona virus .The biological coexistence that emerges out of

a pandemic is in stark contrast to its social effects .Diseases don’t have a social

preference, and pathogens don’t distinguish victims by race, class, religion, gender or

other identities. However, history shows that each time there is a pandemic,

deep-rooted social prejudice resurfaces, often with horrifying results .During the

Great Bubonic Plague in Europe in 1348, the Catholic Church was convinced that the

Black Death was a Jewish conspiracy to undermine Christianity. Accused of poisoning

wells to spread the disease, Jews were subjected to horrific torture and forced to

make false confessions. Soon, the mephitic smell of the burning flesh of thousands of

Jews lingered in the air of Strasbourg, Cologne, Basel and Mainz .The Roma of

Europe faced similar persecution. Giorgio Viaggio , in his book Storia Degli Zingari

in Italia (1997), has documented 121 laws framed in Italy between 1493 and1785,

restricting the movement of Zingaris (a pejorative term for Romas ). Such laws were

driven partly by the prejudiced view that the Roma people caused and spread

epidemics.

In medieval Europe, outbreaks of plague were blamed on people who practiced

traditional medicine. They were branded ‘witches’ and persecuted. Historian Brian

Levack (2006 ) estimated that 90,000 people were punished for witchcraft in Europe.

Though we don’t have exact figures, the brunt of it seems to have been borne by

women​

Answer 1

Answer:

In the story, the narrator picks up a hitchhiker and says that he always helps them because he understands the situation and problems that hitchhikers can find themselves in.

Answer 2

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