Shattered Faith of Humanity in Pandemic Literature

Abstract

The present analysis compares and contrasts the phenomenon of pandemic and its effects on the faith of humanity. Pandemics are for the most part disease outbreaks that become widespread as a result of the spread of human- to-human infection. There have been many significant disease outbreaks and pandemics recorded in history, including Spanish Flu, Hong Kong Flu, SARS, H7N9, Ebola, Zika and most recent COVID-19. The term “pandemic” has not been defined by many medical texts, but there are some key features of a pandemic, including wide geographic extension, disease movement, novelty, severity, high attack rates and explosiveness, minimal population immunity, infectiousness and contagiousness, which help us to understand the concept better, if we examine similarities and differences among them. The pandemic related crises have been associated with enormous negative impacts generally on health, economy, society and security of national and global communities and specifically shattered faith of humanity in God and state.