Posted on 03/30/2020 7:41:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
stock up on wine and cheese!
DONE!..................
Notice that it was ‘Parmazon’ cheese. IMPORTED HARD CHEESE!..............
“Scholars are still not sure whether he ever retrieved his cheese”
His Sister had it away...apparently.....
Were political correct folks like muslims, drug users, illegals, gays and the homeless exempted from all public health decrees?
So......not quite the same.
Who knew Pepys was so prescient!
A good book on this was Daniel Defoe’s “Journal of the Plague Year.”
1666 was also the year of the apostasy of Sabbatai Zevi, the precursor antichrist, and a false Messiah, a Kabbalist Rabbi of Syrna. Mostly through his follower Jacob Frank, began the Sabbataen plague.
Pepys was one slippery character.
If you read his diarys ,he changed sides with every flip of the coin during the Civil war, Commonwealth, and eventual restoration.
Every national mishap that he could engineer a benefit from he did.
Smart Chap.
err... the Chinese DID spread the virus, no doubt.
T “ there were 17th century Brits who blamed the Dutch for spreading the plague”
Nigel Powers : There are only two things I can’t stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.
Yeah...I caught that also...this IS a virus from China
“Doctors believed that the bubonic plague was caused by “smells” in the air, so cleaning was always recommended. They had no idea that it was also a good way to get rid of the ticks and fleas that actually spread the contagion.”
Kind of like believing that the current plague wasn’t caused by the ChiComs and spread by infected folks coming here. So keep the borders open, let em all in and don’t use some promising new treatments to save lives.
Meanwhile wash your hands and disinfect surfaces to control the spread.
“Science” can sometimes be controlled by a bunch of folks that get it so deadly wrong.
Wait a minute. Perhaps she’s right. Perhaps I’ve been wrong to blindly follow the medical traditions and superstitions of past centuries. Maybe we barbers should test these assumptions analytically, through experimentation and a “scientific method”. Maybe this scientific method could be extended to other fields of learning: the natural sciences, art, architecture, navigation. Perhaps I could lead the way to a new age, an age of rebirth, a Renaissance!...Naaaaaahhh!
-Theodoric of York
From wiki: Newitz changed personal pronouns from “she” to “they” in 2019.
Very confusing reading about Newitz on wiki. All the “she” are now “they”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalee_Newitz
Annalee Newitz photo
Does it still have its parts?
where they removed?
Added on?
I’m so confused . . . .
The “Diary of Samuel Pepys” is a book about Pepys, his times and his diary. It is very readable and explains in a compelling manner the times in which he lived. Pepys really did work his way from near the bottom to the highest rungs of English society. I believe he became the head of the Admiralty, eventually.
His personal life is also pretty interesting. He left an unvarnished record of his daily “affairs” and wrote the diary in code so it could not be read by others accidentally.
Fascinating to any history buff. Recommended.
We are barely able to keep up with our 7,000 dead a week.
Wish someone would remove the dead bodies laying in the streets or at least spray some Lysol on them?
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