There were similar and different reactions to the plague in the 14th century, the AIDS crisis in the 1980’s and 1990’s, and the ebola fear in 2015. In the 14th century, the reactions could be a bit extreme. Towns would build walls to protect themselves from the plague. They would kill all the cats and dogs in the town. They would lock people in their houses until they died. They thought God was punishing them, so the Monks would become flagellates. They also started blaming the Jews. During the AIDS, or what they called GRID(Gay Related Immune Deficiency) at the time, crisis, people were afraid to even touch people with HIV or AIDS. There were small groups of people saying that this was like God punishing the homosexuals. Since the
