After-postmodern pandemics?

We wrote already about a kind of century cycle for pandemics in modern times like the Spanish Flue (1918) and Coronavirus (2020), this one in after-postmodern era, that has some “modern” characteristics, mainly the communication and human contact.

In after-postmodern times, specifically, maybe there is a cycle of nearly ten years, when we think about SARS, H1N1 and coronavirus.

We cite again the word “pathocenosis” proposed by Mirko Grmek. Pathocenosis is about the circumstances and social context that participate in some way in the conditions for a disease to appear. In that conditions we also can say that we talk of “illness” and “sickness”, not just disease. The meaning of “illness” is more about how the patient experiences its own disease, meanwhile “sickness” is how the community experience that same disease.

There are several factors that generate a pandemic, maybe not just biological factors. Altogether, biological, sociological, anthropological, cultural factors can stablish conditions for a cycle for pandemics: from time to time, different things happening together culminate in a pandemic.