Posted on 03/28/2020 2:12:17 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
You got rats on the west side, bedbugs Uptown.
1666 vs 2020 ???
Cue the, “Bring out your dead!”, pic.
Since this is SARS-CoV-2 wouldn’t it be more instructive to find out how the SARS-CoV-1 in 2003 was dealt with?
Rats spread disease. It’s a fact!
Totally different yes.
However I was struck by how all these doctors and lawyers and the “elite” got the heck out of own then, just like a lot of them are doing right now.
Same New York elite who looked down their nose at flyover country and called them “smelly” (ref Don Lemon show a few weeks back), are now busy fleeing to the same flyover country now.
Good point missed it
Mostly, it’s the fleas they carry around.
Then the following year they torched the place.
The Rats carried it the fleas distributed it.
I thought the Pied Piper killed the rats.
I am speaking now of people made desperate by the apprehensions of their being shut up, and their breaking out by stratagem or force, either before or after they were shut up, whose misery was not lessened when they were out, but sadly increased. On the other hand, many that thus got away had retreats to go to and other houses, where they locked themselves up and kept hid till the plague was over; and many families, foreseeing the approach of the distemper, laid up stores of provisions sufficient for their whole families, and shut themselves up, and that so entirely that they were neither seen or heard of till the infection was quite ceased, and then came abroad sound and well. I might recollect several such as these, and give you the particulars of their management; for, doubtless, it was the most effectual secure step that could be taken for such whose circumstances would not admit them to remove, or who had not retreats abroad proper for the case; for, in being thus shut up, they were as if they had been a hundred miles off. Nor do I recall that any one of those families miscarried.
Daniel DeFoe, Journal Of The Plague Year (pub. 1722)
Great graphic. Thanks.
Puts things in perspective.
My question is how did they determine the numbers back at
the beginning when there were no true world communications?
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots...
Shattered
Bring out your dead!
Historical pandemics prior to modern germ theory relied on quarantines in one form or another. It has been argued that religious pilgrimage sites where large numbers of people came to for healing were centers of further pandemics throughout history.
Well, it did just start.
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