Author : Nasreen Iqbal Kasana 1
Date of Publication :20th May 2021
Abstract: The history of plagues, epidemics and pandemics is the foretellers of human affliction. Perhaps Covid 19 wake up all the 21st century’s generation to know the entire history of deadly diseases which end up an entire lineage of certain region or civilization. For example the Hamin Mangha is an archaeological site in the northeastern China where due to an epidemic the population of that entire region was burned down regardless of the age. Thucydides, a Greek historian opines, “ people in good health were all of a sudden attacked by violent heats in the head, and redness and inflammation in the eyes, the inward parts, such as the throat or tongue, becoming bloody and emitting an unnatural and fetid breath†when Athens suddenly got attacked by a pernicious epidemic. Such deadly diseases shift the course of habits from bottom to the top level i.e. from single individual to society, from a wager to a government employee, from the store house to big malls, and what not else. Between all these points a change occurs which is fluent in nature. So the researcher while keeping current Covid 19 Scenario in front seeks to highlight what kind of meanings society add to the outburst of pandemics. Along with the researcher will show the various social reactions of society in reference to the outbreak of contagious diseases. Further, the researcher will apply the Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of Rhizome to the nature of viruses and Bacteria.
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