{"id":476672,"date":"2021-04-30T15:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=476672"},"modified":"2021-05-04T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T20:35:09","slug":"current-covid-spike-in-bermuda-a-precedented-battle-against-pandemics-476672","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/current-covid-spike-in-bermuda-a-precedented-battle-against-pandemics-476672\/","title":{"rendered":"Current COVID spike in Bermuda a \u2018precedented\u2019 battle against pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"width: 85%; font-weight: bold; line-height: 135%; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\">Rochester historian Michael Jarvis traces the history of pandemics and vaccine skeptics on the island.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/his\/people\/faculty\/jarvis_michael\/index.html\">Michael Jarvis<\/a>, an expert on the history of the Atlantic world, arrived in Bermuda in early April only to go into COVID-19 lockdown four days later, after an intense spike in cases there.<\/p>\n<p>An associate professor of history at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/\">University of Rochester<\/a>, Jarvis had traveled to the British island territory in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean for archaeological excavations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bermuda.com\/where-is-bermuda\/\">Located<\/a> about 600 miles east of North Carolina, the nearest mainland, Bermuda is made up of a cluster of more than 120 mostly interconnected islands, some of them tiny. Jarvis was heading to just one of those\u2014the barely 7-acre <a href=\"https:\/\/bamz.org\/community\/trunk-island\">Trunk Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/smithsislandarchaeology.blogspot.com\/\">Smiths Island Archeology Project<\/a> in Bermuda and author of <a href=\"https:\/\/uncpress.org\/book\/9780807872840\/in-the-eye-of-all-trade\/\"><em>In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783<\/em><\/a> (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), Jarvis has been conducting archeological digs on the islands for nearly three decades, often with Rochester students in tow. His experience of lockdown was, in some ways, easy: until last week he was the only person on Trunk Island (before heading over to <a href=\"https:\/\/mapcarta.com\/19491742\">Smith\u2019s Island<\/a> this week with a current population of about a dozen people). When his lonely excavation work on Trunk was interrupted by three days of wind and rain, he dug into his files instead.<\/p>\n<p>Stuck indoors, Jarvis resurfaced Bermuda\u2019s previous experiences with imported epidemics and decided to share his knowledge with the public. He found that recent COVID-19 spike comes with plenty of historic precedent. Bermuda suffered its last, \u201csadly avoidable smallpox epidemic in spring 1830 after a vessel from Halifax introduced it on shore,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalgazette.com\/opinion-writer\/opinion\/article\/20210420\/in-these-precedented-times\/\">Jarvis wrote in an op-ed<\/a> for the <em>Royal Gazette<\/em>, a daily newspaper in Bermuda.<\/p>\n<p>Most who came down with smallpox nearly 200 years ago didn\u2019t believe in the efficacy of the cowpox vaccine, Jarvis argues. Now he\u2019s urging visitors and Bermudians alike not to repeat the deadly lessons of history.<\/p>\n<p>For example, of the 225 total smallpox cases, 123 unvaccinated Bermudians caught the full virulent form and a quarter of them died, Jarvis writes. While those Bermudians who had been inoculated with the cowpox vaccination were not completely immune, the few who did catch smallpox developed a mild form of it and none died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bermuda Government today is not threatening anyone with a year\u2019s salary fine or a whipping or involuntarily confining you on a small island for 40 days\u2014at your own expense: it is just asking you to stay at home for a while, not potentially expose others unknowingly to a still highly contagious but less deadly virus, and avail yourself of a free vaccine that protects you and those around you from a truly nasty disease whose long-term effects are still unknown,\u201d writes Jarvis\u2014asking readers pointedly if the public really wants to \u201crepeat the dynamics and consequences of Bermuda\u2019s deadly past epidemics when we know so much more now than they did then?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_476692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-476692\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-476692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/jarvis-bermuda-2017.jpg\" alt=\"a group photo around a excavation site in Bermuda.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/jarvis-bermuda-2017.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/jarvis-bermuda-2017-630x473.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/jarvis-bermuda-2017-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/jarvis-bermuda-2017-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-476692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students accompany Michael Jarvis (center) on an excavation trip to Bermuda in 2017. (Michael Jarvis photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>What prompted you to write an op-ed for Bermudians?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>What really struck me were the similarities between COVID, yellow fever, smallpox, and a case of 1830s vaccine skeptics that allowed an unnecessary deadly epidemic to occur.\u00a0That\u2019s why, last week, while still in lockdown after a recent intense spike in COVID cases due to the UK variant and many people\u2019s reckless behavior over Easter, I dug into my notes and wrote an overview of Bermuda&#8217;s long history dealing with these various diseases.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Bermuda had quarantine laws relatively early on the books. Why?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Originally, the infrequent arrivals of slow ships made Bermuda a rather healthy place for most of the 17th century. European diseases tended to burn out during those long months of passages before the vessels arrived in Bermuda, either killing those on board or leaving them immune and noncontagious.<\/p>\n<p>That changed when Bermudians shifted to seafaring and trading with closer Caribbean and American ports in the 1680s. Now their voyages multiplied the chance of viruses\u2019 hitching a ride and landing here. That\u2019s why Bermuda\u2019s first quarantine law was passed in 1731, after smallpox was introduced by a sloop from New York and started to move from household to household\u2014spread by reckless people who were visiting homes afflicted by what was then called the \u201cmortal and violent distemper.\u201d The law authorized local justices of the peace in each parish to detain the sick and move them to \u201cHis Majesty\u2019s Islands\u201d in St. George\u2019s, or Castle Harbour, or the Great Sound to serve a 40-day quarantine at their own expense. My archaeological work at Smallpox Bay on Smith\u2019s Island is investigating one such site.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Are you safe?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been here since April 8, so just before the UK variant really took off. I am vaccinated and was digging on a small island, Trunk Island, in the middle of Harrington Sound. In fact, I was the only person on the island. Funny enough, the island was an old quarantine site due to its isolation, so I&#8217;m totally safe.<\/p>\n<p>This week, I moved over to another island, Smith\u2019s Island, with a population of 14 and started digging in the ruins of an actual quarantine house at Smallpox Bay. I hope to be here in Bermuda until May 16, unless things suddenly get really bad for some reason.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What makes you mad?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It is very frustrating to watch Bermuda\u2019s government trying to deal with a major public health crisis and seeing versions of the same US resistance here: vaccine skeptics, government conspiracy fearmongers, and anti-maskers who honestly think health foods and probiotics will save them, mixed with COVID deniers, and reckless people having parties regardless.\u00a0 The whole current crisis can be traced, so I am told, back to a Bermudian returning from the UK and going that night to a large party before he got his entry test result (positive), wearing his red entry wristband and no mask openly and infecting about 60 people, who then spread it to hundreds of others in the next week not knowing they had it.\u00a0My history piece is aimed at the hesitants and deniers in the Bermuda public, it is if you will, an activist intervention 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