Společnost v čase moru

The article endeavours to consider possible responses of a society confronted with a pandemic disease, not curable with reachable medication or treatments. In this context the article describes the peculiarities of diseases like plague, and also in a comparable scale influenza in history, more particularly the “Spanish flu” of 1918–1919. As a matter of fact, the society before finding a usable and accessible vaccine must rely on a kind of seclusion either on the side of the ill person/people or on the side of the society itself.