Black Death origin mystery solved after 675 years, researchers say

CBS ^ | JUNE 15, 2022 / 11:52 AM | Staff

[IYAS9YAS]

Keep looking farther east as the original origin. The Bubonic Plague (yersinia pestis) came to the United States in the 1800s from Chinese trade ships and originated in Yunnan province. It’s still around in the desert southwest and we get an occasional case.

[BipolarBob]

Breaking News!! Fauci said he will use these Black death specimens for “gain of function” experiments. He’s ordering up 100 beagles for his study.

[woodbutcher1963]

Pfizer ?

[one guy in new jersey]

[by a murderous bludgeoning, wot!]

[mountainlion]

Did he ever get to identifying the Black Death? I never made it to the end.

[Mr. K]

"The Excavation Of The Black Death Cemetery At The Royal Mint Site"

I think I've seen this movie...

It didn't end well.

[Tupelo]

Plague & Pestilence

Where oh where did I read that?

[bort]

I think they were all wearing masks.

[Red Badger]

Rodents in Kyrgyzstan. My guess is furs and pelts had flea eggs on them and were sold all along the caravan routes, Silk Road, all the way to Europe where they were made into coats, hats and other things. The flea eggs hatched and the Plague was begun....................Just my guess.................

[Red Badger]

I am reading Dickens “A Child’s History of England”, and in it he describes the Plague burial workers wearing masks..............

[Arcadian Empire]

Fauci will want to conduct a gain-of-function experiment to make The Black Death Plague more contagious, invasive, and destructive.

[Mercat]

I also recommend “A Distant Mirror” by Barbara Tuchman.

[Boogieman]

Yes, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Kyrgyzstan is right smack dab in the middle of 3 different routes of the Silk Road from China to Europe.

[dirtymac]

it’s due to global warming , er Climate Change. All those people driving SUVs and coal fired electrical plants.

or, it was due to racism and white supremacy

or, it was due to the inability of the LGBQT community to express themselves

[Mr. K]

but I came here for an argument!!

[mjp]

Kyrgyzstan is right next to china

[Doctor Congo]

About 25 years ago I read a huge book about the history of weather since Roman times. In the 1300s the weather in western Europe became cooler and MUCH more rainy. It rained so much that it was very difficult to get crops in the ground, people half starved all the time for decades. I figured this made them weak and more susceptible to the plague. But in the 1400s the weather became very nice and everyone had bumper crops for decades. Having so much food available allowed for migration from the farms to the cities, and hence the rise of a merchant class. And this resulted in extra funding for science and exploration in that century.

[Glad2bnuts]

The virus that caused the Influenza of WW1 is still circulating too. Why no massive infections from it? Natural immunity.

[jmaroneps37]

Another gift to the world from the religion of Peace.

[Tell It Right]

Take a gander at the weather patterns since the Holocene Epoch around 5,500 BC (in the graph that'd be 7.5 thousand years ago). On average the temps have slowly gone down for the past almost 8 thousand years. This is because we're on the last half of the Holocene Glacial Period. The black line has a "mountain top" every thousand or so years. These are the mini-glacial periods. If you'll notice the tops are trending lower, the same for the bottoms.

Now look at the Little Ice Age up close. Do you see around year AD 1500 there was a brief reprieve rise in temps that lasted about 50 years? People living in that time thought their cooling period was over. People then weren't stupid about climate science like the political class is today. When their temps were warming they thought their two-century long cooling period was coming to an end and they'd go back to a climate that's easier to survive in. But the climate yelled "Psyche!" and got much cooler until the 1800's. People were literally freezing to death in August in modern day Germany. In the UK during the winters the Thames River would freeze over and they'd have festivals on it. If you think about American history and how many of the colonists starved to death, especially during the winters, now you know why. Now you know one of the reasons why many of the indigenous tribes in America fought each so brutally and took over each other's crop land in search for more crop yield. Now you know why many African leaders brutally took over each other's land to get crop land to feed their starving people. What did they do with the people in other lands they captured while stealing their land? They sold them as slaves. (Now you know the main basis for the supply side of the African slave trade.) Have you heard that a large portion of slaves died during the transit. What the worldly left wants you to forget are: 1) most of the slaves died during transit before reaching the shores (they died in Africa), and 2) people were dying all over Africa, Asia, and Europe anyway whether they were slave or free.

By the way, it's for the same reason during the Dark Age (though not nearly as intense as the Little Ice Age) that the Huns took over land southwest of them in search for more crop yield. That displaced a lot of Germanic people, which forced the Germanic people to go into what was left of the western Roman Empire (the fall of Rome) and keep going southwest into modern day Germany. Which is where the Anglos and Saxons lived, so they were displaced and forced north (ouch! when it's hard enough to survive during the LIA the last thing you want is to be forced north). This was during the AD 4th century (300's to those of you in Rio Linda). By the end of the century a lot of Huns had moved into Scandinavia and displaced the Anglos and Saxons again (forcing them to move west into Britannia).

Basically, if you're majority Anglo you're the descendent of a group that was displaced twice (reparations due?). And for mainly the same reason the Anglos displaced the indigenous Americans over a thousand years later --- everybody was doing desperate things to survive in desperate times of global cooling.

Last soapbox (LOL): Think about the fact that the godless left that obsesses over global warming is the same godless left that wants us to feel guilty over the "atrocities" of the past. They're basically contradicting themselves. Most of the atrocities they pretend to be obsessed with happen during the worst cooling period in the past 10,000 years. In the Modern Warm Period (since the late 1800's, some say close to AD 1900) the Hitlers and Stalins are rare occurrences, not the norm. In the cooling periods virtually all nations, kingdoms, races are brutal in their strive to survive and virtually all of them have been the victim of others striving to survive.