[SunkenCiv]

Did the Black Death Rampage Across the World a Century Earlier Than Previously Thought? | Smithsonian Magazine

[ClearCase_guy]

Traayvon Martin
Michael Brown
George Floyd

And I forget the fourth guy

[oldbrowser]

So the Chinese have a history of spreading pandemics.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Were “wet markets” operating back then?

[Robert A Cook PE]

When you read the descriptions of the sudden onset of the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu, the black faces and black lips of its victims, the sudden but steady transfer of the Spanish FLu from town to town (by touch, by physical proximity and by (airborne) close association during ship transport, train and camp associations .... It is the same spread and the same speed as the Black Death.

Yes. I know the ever-repeated theory that the Black Death was spread by fleas spread by rats from the ships and trade caravans coming from China and the Silk Trade across the MidEast. But I see no evidence contradicting the Black Death as a Spanish Influenza mutation.

[M Kehoe]

Thanks.

The ‘Rona isn’t that bad after all.

Fun ping for perspective...

5.56mm

[John Milner]

“The Mongols, whose empire emerged in 1206, unwittingly moved plague through Central Eurasia in the thirteenth, not the fourteenth, century.”

But Columbus and the Europeans in America brought disease on purpose. At least that’s what we’re brainwashed into believing.

[Notthemomma]

I’d like to read it, but it’s behind a paywall.

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