stock up on wine and 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.
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.
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.
“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.
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?
“When a plague hit England during the summer of 1665, it was a time of tremendous political turmoil. The nation was deep into the Second Anglo-Dutch War, a nasty naval conflict that had torpedoed the British economy. But there were deeper sources of internal political conflict. Just five years earlier in 1660, King Charles II had wrested back control of the government from the Puritan members of Parliament led by Oliver Cromwell.
Though Cromwell had died in 1658, the king had him exhumed, his corpse put in chains and tried for treason. After the inevitable guilty verdict, the King’s henchmen mounted Cromwell’s severed head on a 20-foot spike over Westminster Hall, along with the heads of two co-conspirators. Cromwell’s rotting head stayed there, gazing at London, throughout the plague and for many years after.”
And we think our political divide is bad now!
It’s nice to have a historical perspective on things.
“Pepys was a believer in science, and he tried to follow the most cutting-edge advice from his doctor friends. This included smoking tobacco as a precautionary measure, because smoke and fire would purify the “bad air.” In June of 1665, as the plague began, Pepys described seeing red crosses on doors for the first time. “It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell,” he writes, “so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell and chaw, which took away the apprehension.””
It’s amusing reading about what was “settled science” back then... and makes you wonder about our settled science today.