Posted on 02/04/2022 12:22:16 PM PST by Starman417
During the late Middle Ages jousting and sacking and pillaging were the normal activities of the day. 1346 was just a normal year and Europe was involved in another of its perpetual wars with the English invading France and others taking up sides. It was the year after Botticelli was born and right in the heart of the careers of Donatello and Titan.
There was however one event in 1346 that makes it stand out like no other year in human history. It was the year the Black Death started. The Black Death was a bubonic plague that struck Europe, Asia and North Africa and killed between 100 and 200 million people. The plague was brought to Europe from Asia and between 1346 and 1353 it savaged the population. The population of the entire world at that time is estimated to have been 450 million people and by 1400, almost 50 years after the end of the Black Death, it had only returned to 360 million.
The Black Death was a pandemic, any way you look at it. It was an existential threat to civilization and the continued existence of human life on earth and killed between a quarter and half of the world’s population.
But somehow mankind survived. Before the century was out Leonardo da Vinci & Michelangelo would burst onto the scene, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Kremlin would be completed and Columbus would sail for the New World. The world faced potential extermination and not only survived, but thrived. Indeed, upon emerging from the savagery of the Black Death Europe would soon find itself in the Renaissance, a period of some of the greatest artistic, cultural and scientific advances in human history up until that point.
The point here? Humans are resilient. Humans adapt. Humans survive. Humans are not porcelain dolls, fine china nor Faberge eggs. Humans are… well… human. They are adaptable, dynamic, intelligent and a thousand other characteristics. Mankind has survived on this planet for tens of thousands of years, and – mostly – advancing itself all along the way.
But you wouldn’t know it from the last two years.
Across the country Americans find themselves cowering behind required paper masks, locked in their homes or limited to where they can go and what they can do, forced to get shots and in some places required to carry “passports” proving that they are “immunized” against what is apparently the greatest killer humanity has ever seen. .
In a matter of months the United States went from being a relatively free country to being a police state where the government shut down millions of businesses, closed schools and churches and wouldn’t let families visit dying relatives in hospitals or nursing homes. They forced ostensibly free citizens to wear masks – even outdoors in some cases – and arrested people for being out of their homes – or for surfing, alone! At the same time the government burdened taxpayers with trillions of dollars of debt, and finally, adding injury to insult, they forced millions of Americans to take shots of a new and unproven vaccine, in many cases against their religious convictions, medical advice, and sometimes even when they already had natural immunity against the very virus the vaccines were supposed to protect them from! In a matter of months the American economy was disemboweled, millions of American people saw their livelihoods destroyed, their businesses crushed and the American people experienced an evisceration of their rights never before seen in the United States.
Not only did Americans allow their leaders to destroy their economies and much of their lives, they allowed Democrats, big tech, the media and the Swamp to use Covid to undermine the Republic and run a coup that installed a dementia riddled man as President of the United States.
And all for what? An existential threat to humanity like the Black Death? No. The Latin American Smallpox pandemic that took 50 million lives and killed 90% of the native population in early 16th century? Nope. Or maybe the Spanish Flu that killed nearly 2% of the earth’s population in the early 20th century? Umm… No. It was for a flu like virus that killed a total of 900,000 Americans in two years and 5 million people worldwide. To put that in perspective, that’s about 1/4th of 1% of the American population and the worldwide total is a fraction of that. The reported 450,000 American Covid deaths per year is 150,000 fewer deaths than cancer kills annually and 250,000 fewer than heart disease.
But somehow Americans have given up their freedoms, their livelihoods, their Republic and their bodies all within the expanse of two years.
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So... "Vince" needs a couple of bucks today?
Democrats are #1 enemy of Americans. Period and no apologies.
DemocRATs are most certainly enemies.
Of the worst kind.
And treating them as such is one sure way of improving life.
“The point here? Humans are resilient. Humans adapt.” In England the plague hit Suffolk county perhaps as hard proportionately as anywhere else in the country. The result: the end of feudalism introduced by Normans. Farm workers were paid a premium; Peasants became tenants; tenants became small landowners; great landowners were reduced. Indeed, humans are resilient.
The Democrats are destroying the US from within for their Masters The Chinese Communist Party
DNR
Semantics. OF COURSE THEY ARE OUR ENEMIES
Actually the Democrats ARE domestic enemies. The DNC is now comprised of exactly the sort that HUAC was correctly and justly convened to prevent gaining influence.
John Hanoi Kerry indoctrinated me into the democrat enemy when he called 2.5M Vietnam veterans baby killers and war criminals. Billy carter’s brother Jimmy introduced me to demonic economics and freedom. Each one gets worse than the last. The current regime has gone too far to be understood. The government has become an enemy to we the people.
I haven’t been told they aren’t enemies 🤪
I know what they would like to do to me
Oh yes they are!
Told by who, democrats? The press? CEOs of companies colluding with government?
What? The Demwits tell *me* that every day with every word and every act.
This is hardly an issue condensed down to simply democrats and republicans
That’s so stupid
Yet talk radio and neocons ape this shit non stop and Freepers can’t get enough
Why off course Andrew jackson and Liz warren are the same....and GOPe is sainthood conservatism always bringing is lovely golden oldies like civil rights acts we should all fawn over
It’s just stupid wholly inaccurate drivel spouted by Sean and beck too stupid to know better
And mark levin who damn well does know better but lies anyhow
Shapiro ditto
Everything they do is a fig leaf of virtue signaling.
Be ruled by God or by God you'll be ruled.
Matthew 20
25 But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
26 It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,
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