I like Michael Yon, but typhus and cholera in Holland? Um, why? Why would there be overcrowding and body lice? And why dirty water and cholera? I can understand people dying of flu and pneumonia, etc., in the cold, but typhus and cholera?
Okay, this was back in the 1970s, but still. I was a young girl and my family was travelling in Holland. There was no heat in the hotel room where we stayed in Leiden. My mother politely complained about it, thinking there was something wrong with the heat. Some guy from the hotel (manager?) knocked on the door, my mother answered, and he said in English “Madam, for sixty guilders, you don’t get heat”, clicked his heels together, made a little bow, turned and left. It became a family joke.
My school in Switzerland was barely heated at all and we dressed warmly. On Saturdays (yes, school on Saturdays), the windows were often open, even if it was snowing. (Saturday night baths were the custom, so on Saturdays ...).
I’ve no doubt they’re cutting back on heat, and this will be a cruel winter for them, but typhus and cholera???
Typhus and cholera were prevalent in medeval winters where heating was curtailed.Could it be that typhus and cholera organisms are attracted to the only heat source available in winter — human body heat?
Europe prefers Biden over Trump. Voila the result. America, I hope you’re learning your lesson and make the right choice.
>>Why would there be overcrowding and body lice?<<
Lice need warmth too. Only source available is the human body. Concentration camp survivors were de-liced by Allies before set free.
America pay attention to what stolen elections can bring. This winter, check your armpits for lice. Rub them with rubbing alcohol (isopropenol) and don’t strike matches during the process. Shave off the hair on your head.