Plague for Plague

by Shaun Lawton

1st Maxim of futurological imaginings arrived at by a process of eliminating the imagined:

"After establishing new idea, then research to find it already in the historical archive"

Only until after this has been done may we rest assured our idea might be new.


For instance, the recent discovery that healthy fleas spread contagion now has deep implications the least of which is what to do with all these healthy beings spreading that particular disease?

If I look up the socially acceptable term for starving people in order to maintain disease control, I'm sure to find it archived somewhere as common practice back when Rome was in power or something.

So I must ask myself . . .  .what's the scientific or professional term for intentionally starving a populace?  Aside from the Ukrainian term Holodomor, I'm not sure this phenomenon was especially popular in the approved registry's side of history's recollections.  

One plague for another. 
Must we imagine a hunger plague 

forced upon a certain demographic 

for being carriers of a particular disease,

 or just register it as historically 

repeated fact? Plague for plague, 

if we don't learn from our mistakes, 

we've already sealed our pact.