How did the people go about their lives when death was all around them?
Did the local squire demand lockdowns, or did they pray to god every morning and went about their business, to be alive at nightfall?
The same disease goes back to at least the Plague of Justinian, right?
To me the amazing part is the hysteria over warming. Historically the cool eras were the ones that killed the most people. We ought to be glad we live in the Modern Warm Period instead of the Little Ice Age (1300 to 1800’s), Dark Age (300-900) or Greek Dark Age (about BC 1100 to BC 300). It’s during the cool eras that crop yields go way down, rain patterns are harder to predict, and deaths by plague go way up.
Did the ships get anywhere near Wuhan?
“Did the local squire demand lockdowns...”
Well, quarantines more than lockdowns. Sometimes the infected cities were quarantined to keep the sick in, and sometimes the uninfected cities were quarantined to keep the sick out. But since the infection was spread by rats and fleas which were everpresent in any city, those measures were mostly ineffective either way.
“12 ships from the Black Sea”
One interesting fact about this is that the ports on the Black Sea in what is now Ukraine/Crimea were a traditional vector for plague to reach Europe from Asia, which is the reason that Russia set up the first “biolabs” in the Ukraine, back in the 1890s, to detect and combat the plague specifically.
Dat’s RACIS!........................
The answer is to be found in Daniel Defoe's novel, A Journal of the Plague Year, written in 1772 and describing the London Plague of 1664.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/376/376-h/376-h.htm
When it arrived in Europe in the fourteenth century, the disease was called the pestilence or simply the plague. It was not called the Black Death until the eighteenth century, when it had largely disappeared.
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