Great Plague Returns

    Historians know about a disease that struck the known world in ancient times, and only those who stayed home and avoided contact with deniers survived.
   At the time, it was called divine intervention, but realists suggest that while quarantine may have been a result of divine guidance, people would not have otherwise survived. Those who continued full contact with others quickly spread the disease.
   Whether the current worldwide plague is punishment for human behavior is an argument for theologians to debate. Others, including medical personnel, are more concerned with healing and prevention than with arguing over divine punishment as the cause. Many scholars say this is why people were given intelligence.
   Others, however, insist the disease does not exist. They can be described as having what can be called the pharaoh syndrome -- king of denial.