Does it make sense that "the great epidemic stops in the countryside"

In ancient times, when the traffic was extremely inconvenient, the rural areas with less population were indeed the isolation zones and moats of the epidemic.

Rural areas have four characteristics: 1. Inconvenient transportation; 2. Small population; 3. The medical level is backward; 4. do it hard.

Traffic inconvenience, virus carriers will not be able to spread the virus over a long distance, what's more, one or two tigers and wolves, as well as the ancestors of Xiong Er and Xiong Da halfway, will not be handed over to others' stomachs, which is common in ancient times when ecological protection was emphasized.

If you want to give an example, Song Wu, Li Kui jy, and Jie Zhen Jiebao brothers have all met a man-eating tiger, which is recorded in Zi Tong Zhi Jian (also known as Water Margin).

For example, when I was a child, it was inconvenient to go anywhere. There is only one bus in the whole city, and I only took it once in my memory. The first time I took a train in my life was about ten years old, and it took me three days and four nights to get to Beijing from my hometown. It was already in the mid-1980s. My daughter is also ten years old this year. From the age of two, she followed us by train, plane and bus. I can't remember how many times.

The population base is small, so in proportion, the number of people going out in rural areas or returning home from epidemic areas is small, and the epidemic is difficult to spread.

During the SARS in 2003, I was in a reservoir in the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang, which was originally a sparsely populated place. There are less than ten people in the reservoir at the peak. I only go to the village once a week to buy meat and vegetables. The ambitious idol leader of SARS virus was originally planned, but a group of staff officers and military advisers, considering that it is extremely difficult to climb mountains and wade to starve to death in the reservoir, all said they would do whatever they want, so they didn't go this time. The virus leader accepted good advice and was eliminated in the mainland.

Coupled with the primitive and backward medical level in ancient times, once the epidemic unfortunately spread to the countryside, there was almost only one result. When the virus carriers disappeared, the epidemic naturally subsided.

This is more common in Europe. There is an infectious disease, which either burns people alive with torches, or digs a hole to bury them, or banishes them to a remote forest or desert island to let them die, which objectively also plays a role in isolating the source of infection.

However, with the progress of society, people have solved all these shortcomings for viruses. This sentence seems to be a bit out of date. If we don't pay attention to it, the countryside may become a hotbed of the epidemic.