Una lettura storica delle pandemie. I ri-corsi innovativi

There have been many pandemics in the past, but the answer - i.e. isolation - has sometimes been similar to ours. An important difference, however, concerned the conditions of our situation. In fact, recent advances in technology have been so revolutionary that we have been able to close ourselves in our homes without losing contact with the outside world: something simply unthinkable only a few years ago. Furthermore, we generally listened with confidence to the topics of science. In the past, and even in recent times, things went differently and there was often who talked of "divine punishment", or looked for plague spreaders and scapegoats. Anyway we don't have to think that historians know what will happen in the future. As they use to look at the past, they clearly help us understand the present in a better way, but the future remains in our own hands. However, it can be said that this pandemic - as well as the awareness of the planet's environmental and climatic crisis and of the increase in inequalities - led us to a scenario quite different from the 20th century, and this certainly faces us to a new kind of challenges.